Search results for "Mental causation"
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Minds, causes, and mechanisms [Introducció]
2000
This book questions the internal consistency of causal physicalism, and vindicates a novel approach to mental causation. Throught a series of original and detailed arguments, it is made clear that many difficulties in the physicalist picture derive from an implausible view about causality. An alternative approach is defended which shows how mental contents, as opposed to functional propierties, may be causally efficacious without having an implementing mechanism.
Beyond Conceptual Dualism
2008
Francesc Forn I ARGIMON: Editorial Foreword: Special Series in Cognitive Science John R. SEARLE: Guest Foreword Preface Introduction One: Problems and Theories: The Mind-Body Problem in Contemporary Philosophical Debate Two: Biological Naturalism: A Naturalistic and Non-Reductive Ontology of Consciousness Three: Functionalistic Models of Consciousness: Dennett, Chalmers, and the Desubstantialization of Mind Four: Holism and Mental Causation in the Theory of Intentionality Five: John Searle and Contemporary Neuroscience. Holism, Mental Causation, and the Roots of Subjectivity Conclusion Works Cited About the Author Index
Mind, brain, and downward causation
2011
Este trabajo tiene tres partes. En la primera, exponemos algunas nociones básicas, como las de causalidad mental e intencional, así como la de causalidad misma; procedemos a continuación a formular algunas tesis, inspiradas en las ciencias naturales, y a mostrar cómo parecen entrar en conflicto con la aceptación de la causalidad intencional. Este conflicto es el núcleo del problema de la causalidad mental. En la segunda parte, presentamos y discutimos brevemente algunas propuestas para abordar este problema, y tratamos de sacar a la luz sus dificultades. Finalmente, en la tercera parte, planteamos tentativamente algunas sugerencias sobre el modo en que el problema de la causalidad intencion…