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Mental causation is not load-bearing

In philosophy of mind, “mental causation” means mental entities have causal effects, especially physical ones. If physicalism is true, then physical effects are explainable in terms of physical cau…

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Mental causation is not load-bearing

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Mental causation is not load-bearing

In philosophy of mind, “mental causation” means mental entities have causal effects, especially physical ones. If physicalism is true, then physical effects are explainable in terms of physical cau…

Unstable Ontology
Jim Donegan 🎵 ✅Jun 15, 2024

#AlvaNoë - What is the #MindBodyProblem?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ywUMFEgu0

#AlvaNoe #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #Neuroscience #Body #MentalCausation #Causation #Qualia #SelfAwareness #Intentionality #Desire #Action #DanielDennett #Dennett #CartesianTheatre #CartesianTheater #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Alva Noë - What is the Mind-Body Problem?

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Jim Donegan 🎵 ✅May 11, 2024

#WalterSinnottArmstrong - What is #Causation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30V0RA11g0w

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Physics #MentalCausation #ContactCausation #MentalState #MentalStates #GeneratAttributes #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong - What is Causation?

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Jim Donegan 🎵 ✅Aug 15, 2023

#ColinMcGinn - How Can #FreeWill Work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZIdsrOg37Q&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfFreeWill #PhilosophyOfMind #Randomness #Determinism #Compatibilism #Blame #Responsibility #Morality #MentalCausation #Causation #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Colin McGinn - How Can Free Will Work?

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Pretty Gnostic MachineApr 17, 2023

Thoughts on mental causation & the mind-body problem:

If you want to make mental properties causally relevant, such that our intentional states (beliefs, desires, etc.) matter to the structuring our behavior in the here and now, the most compelling argument for that position is the dual explanandum theory offered by Dretske: physical and the mental properties are causally responsible for DIFFERENT effects.

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Jim Donegan 🎵 ✅Nov 28, 2022

#SimonBlackburn - What is #Causation ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuvD1B_kpaA&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #Hume #DavidHume #LawsOfPhysics #LawsOfNature #Regularities #PatternsOfRegularities #Induction #InductiveExperience #BottomUpCausation #MentalCausation #Consciousness #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Simon Blackburn - What is Causation?

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Anthony DardisNov 23, 2022
re-#introduction (just moved from m.online to zirk.us). #philosophy professor, #metaphysics, #philosophyOfMind #freeWill #properties #mentalCausation. #swimming #sourdough #brooklyn #parkSlopeFoodCoop. #greek (ancient/Attic) philosophy and history generally.