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Ignatenko, D. "Mental causation problem solutions." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/66273.

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Mental causation is the cause and effect relationship of consciousness and the physical world, in particular, the influence of human consciousness on his/her behavior. In everyday life and scientific practice, the interaction between consciousness and the physical world is taken for granted. The influence of mental states and processes on human behavior is recognized as an established fact in everyday psychology, in scientific psychology, and in the philosophy of psychology. At the same time, in the modern philosophy of mind and cognitive science, the problem of mental causation is the subject

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Ignatenko, D. "Mental causation problem solutions." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/65312.

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Mental causation is the cause and effect relationship of consciousness and the physical world, in particular, the influence of human consciousness on his/her behavior. In everyday life and scientific practice, the interaction between consciousness and the physical world is taken for granted. The influence of mental states and processes on human behavior is recognized as an established fact in everyday psychology, in scientific psychology, and in the philosophy of psychology. At the same time, in the modern philosophy of mind and cognitive science, the problem of mental causation is the subject

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Laird, Kirstie. "Free will and mental causation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365538.

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Gibb, Sophie Catherine. "The metaphysics of mental causation." Thesis, Durham University, 2002. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3863/.

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This thesis argues that the fundamental issues within the mental causation debate are metaphysical ones. Consequently, it is only with metaphysical clarity, that any clarity can be gained in the mental causation debate. In order to provide a successful theory of mental causation one cannot divorce oneself from metaphysics. Neither can one hope to provide a theory of mental causation that is somehow neutral between the various metaphysical systems. Rather, to be plausible, a theory of mental causation must be based within an independently plausible metaphysical framework. I divide the metaphysi

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Maiese, Michelle Lynn. "Mental causation, trying, and the emotions." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3178334.

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White, Benjamin G. "Mind-Body Dualism and Mental Causation." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/390365.

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Philosophy<br>Ph.D.<br>The Exclusion Argument for physicalism maintains that since every physical effect has a sufficient physical cause, and cases of causal overdetermination (wherein a single effect has more than one sufficient cause) are rare, it follows that if minds cause physical effects as frequently as they seem to, then minds must themselves be physical in nature. I contend that the Exclusion Argument fails to justify the rejection of interactionist dualism (the view that the mind is non-physical but causes physical effects). In support of this contention, I argue that the multiple re

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HOLLANDA, GABRIEL JUCA DE. "MENTAL CAUSATION AND FUNDAMENTAL ONTOLOGY: PHYSICALIST ARGUMENTS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=18346@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>O fisicalismo contemporâneo força a filosofia a lidar com o problema da causação mental: Como a mente é causalmente relevante em um mundo físico? Uma das saídas propostas, o epifenomenalismo, é visto por filósofos importantes como uma posição que preserva características essenciais à subjetividade sem contrariar os fatos científicos. No entanto, pode-se argumentar que a epistemologia dos mesmos e o caráter das leis naturais se chocam com as supostas vantagens do epifenomenalismo.<br>Contemporary physicalism compels philosophy to

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White, Andrea Suzanne. "Mental causation and the metaphysics of action." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20501/.

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The subject of this dissertation is the problem of mental causation: the problem of how the mental is able to causally interact with the physical. I show that the problem of mental causation, as it is presented in contemporary philosophy of mind, is a pseudo-problem. My claim is that contemporary philosophy of mind has misidentified what it is about mental causation that we need, but struggle, to understand. This is because contemporary philosophy of mind labours under a misapprehension of what mental causation is supposed to be. In most discussions of the problem of mental causation, mental c

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Pearlberg, Daniel. "Causation, Mechanism and Mind." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1430829433.

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De, Anna Gabriele. "Formal causation and mental representation : a Thomistic proposal." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12915.

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In the past years, the relevance of Thomas Aquinas's theory of cognition for contemporary debates on epistemology has been widely discussed. That theory claims that mind and world are formally identical and that this relationship overcomes various problems associated with scepticism concerning mental representation. The proposal, however, is grounded on the idea that the world can act on the mind through a relation of formal causation. This thesis attempts to develop a Thomistic theory of formal causation which may be suitable for a realist account of mental representation and which may meet t

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MacLeod, Mark. "Norms and nature, resituating the mental causation debate." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ49971.pdf.

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Hoffmann, Stephanie Lee. "The problems of mental causation and pluralist alternatives." Thesis, Colorado State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1597855.

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<p> The mental causation literature tends towards certain presuppositions, including the tacit endorsement of physicalism, causal closure, and reductionism. Insofar as justification for these philosophical positions is offered at all, it is typically claimed that they are grounded in actual scientific practice. However, there are good reasons to believe that actual science does not support these philosophical positions. In this work, I consider some reasons to deny physicalism and causal closure, and critically present and evaluate pluralistic alternatives to reductionism. In light of this dis

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Tu, Chia-Lin. "The Tale of Mental Causation: Fact or Fiction?" OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/125.

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Mental causation is with us all the time. Being a table is different from being a human---although we are composed of physical particles, we have understanding, reason, or perception, which are able to make a difference in the physical world. In this dissertation, I have detail discussions of contemporary substance dualism, the mind-brain identity theory, and Jaegwon Kim's functionalism, and thus conclude that none of them can provide an appropriate account to the problem of mental causation. By distinguishing the mind from the body, substance dualists face the pairing problem: How does this

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Fletcher, Laura B. "Depression in chronic pain syndromes determining causation /." Online version, 1999. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1999/1999fletcherl.pdf.

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Harbecke, Jens. "Mental causation investigating the mind's powers in a natural world." Frankfurt, M. [i.e.] Heusenstamm Paris Ebikon Lancaster New Brunswick, NJ Ontos-Verl, 2007. http://d-nb.info/988122790/04.

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Harbecke, Jens. "Mental causation : investigating the mind's powers in a natural world /." Frankfurt, M. [i.e.] Heusenstamm ;Paris ;Ebikon ;Lancaster ;New Brunswick, NJ : Ontos-Verl, 2008. http://d-nb.info/988122790/04.

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Melkerson, Sandra. "Mental kausalitet : Hållbarheten för Anthony Dardis teori." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-108092.

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Owen, Matthew Keith. "Neo-Thomistic hylomorphism applied to mental causation and neural correlates of consciousness." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8362/.

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The aim of this work is to defend substance dualism by defeating two of its paramount potential defeaters. I will argue that a substance dualist position, neo-Thomistic hylomorphism, provides a solution to the causal pairing problem and a good explanation of neural correlates of consciousness. After an introductory first chapter, I'll explicate dualism's dominant potential defeaters in the next three chapters. Chapter 2 will clarify what neural correlates of consciousness are and the objection to dualism based on neural correlates. The following two chapters will distinguish and elucidate dual

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Christensen, Jonas Fogedgaard. "Physicalism and the causal exclusion argument." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9801.

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Natural science tells us that the world is fundamentally physical - everything is ultimately constituted by physical properties and governed by physical laws. How do we square this picture of the world with the apparent fact that there are genuine causal relations at levels that aren’t described by physics? The problem of mental causation is at the heart of this issue. There are probably two reasons for this. Firstly, if there are any non-physical properties at all, surely mental properties are among them. And secondly, the reality of mental causation is arguably more important to us than the

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Bernstein, Sara. "Essays on Overdetermination." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194431.

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I present a thorough metaphysics of causal overdetermination, which yields new insights into mental causation, our world's counterfactual structure, and properties of moral responsibility. I investigate causal overdetermination in three related papers.In "Overdetermination Underdetermined," I show that overdetermination has been underspecified in the literature, leading to a conflation of several important questions: (i) what is overdetermination?, (ii) is overdetermination physically possible, and if so, how ubiquitous is it?, and (iii) is overdetermination a problem?I diagnose the source of

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Garrett, Brian. "Causal relevance and the mental : towards a non-reductive metaphysics." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=42039.

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My aim in this thesis is to explain how a non-reductionist metaphysics can accommodate the causal relevance of the psychological and of the special sciences generally. According to physicalism, all behavior is caused by brain-states; given "folk-psychology", behavior (such as the waving of my hand) is caused by some psychological state. If psychological states are distinct from brain states (event dualism), then our behavior is overdetermined and this, it is claimed, is unacceptable. I argue that this consequence is not unacceptable. I claim that our explanatory practice should guide our ontol

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Mitchell, Edward William. "Madness and meta-responsibility : the self-causation of mental disorder and the insanity defence." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621197.

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Medlow, Sharon Denise. "Mechanisms of mental causation: An examination of the theories of Anomalous Monism and Direct Realism with regard to their proposals concerning the causal role of human mentality in the natural world." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/678.

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One of the most interesting developments in recent psychological theorising has been a growing appreciation of the need for a viable theory of mental causation. Hitherto, the prospects for reconciling what seems to be the uniquely rational character of human thought and action with the non-rational mechanistic workings of the natural world have appeared to be limited or even illusory, and the pursuit of reconciliation of this sort has therefore formerly been dismissed as being either impossible of completion or inappropriate for contemplation. Much of the scepticism concerning the role of caus

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Medlow, Sharon Denise. "Mechanisms of mental causation: An examination of the theories of Anomalous Monism and Direct Realism with regard to their proposals concerning the causal role of human mentality in the natural world." University of Sydney. Psychology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/678.

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One of the most interesting developments in recent psychological theorising has been a growing appreciation of the need for a viable theory of mental causation. Hitherto, the prospects for reconciling what seems to be the uniquely rational character of human thought and action with the non-rational mechanistic workings of the natural world have appeared to be limited or even illusory, and the pursuit of reconciliation of this sort has therefore formerly been dismissed as being either impossible of completion or inappropriate for contemplation. Much of the scepticism concerning the role of caus

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Medlow, Sharon. "Mechanisms of mental causation an examination of the theories of Anomalous Monism and Direct Realism with regard to their proposals concerning the causal role of human mentality in the natural world /." Connect to full text, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/678.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2004.<br>Title from title screen (viewed 14 May 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Psychology, Faculty of Science. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

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Vaught, Jimmy Ray. "Kim's Pairing Problem and the Viability of Substance Dualism." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/43.

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Mental causation between the material and the immaterial has been problematic for interactionist substance dualism ever since its first major proponent René Descartes. The contemporary philosopher Jaegwon Kim believes he has found an argument that shows exactly why an immaterial event cannot be said to cause a material event; he calls this the pairing problem argument. This thesis will argue that there is actually sufficient empirical evidence to suggest that Kim’s argument is unsuccessful due to one of its premises being false. Furthermore, this thesis will also argue that interactionist subs

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Pereira, Roy Jawahar Joseph. "The Chemistry of Attention: Neuro-Quantum approaches to Consciousness." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3714.

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Thesis advisor: Ronald K. Tacelli<br>This dissertation arose from concerns that the prevalent philosophy of materialism which reduces everything to matter has inadvertently contributed to the ecological destruction of the planet, and an impoverished understanding of human nature. Conceptual arguments and empirical data cry out for a philosophy beyond materialism (or its current avatar Physicalism) that moves us beyond 17th century classical science, making use of 20th century quantum science to better understand our world. Such a new philosophy would embed a new scientific paradigm that incorp

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Keaton, Douglas. "Realization and Causal Role-Playing: an Essay on the Mind/Body Problem." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1280777209.

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Sarihan, Isik. "Mental Content And Mentalistic Causal Explanation: A Case Against Externalism." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612726/index.pdf.

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This thesis presents a defense of the view that externalism cannot be a theoretical basis of a mentalistic causal-explanatory science, even though such a theoretical basis is implicitly or explicitly adopted by many cognitive scientists. Externalism is a theory in philosophy of mind which states that mental properties are relations between the core realizers of an individual&rsquo<br>s mental states (such as brain states) and certain things that exist outside those realizers (such as what the content of a mental state corresponds to in the actual world.) After clarifications regarding the term

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Costa, Monica Aiub da. "Plasticidade, causação mental e semiose: Peirce e a neurociência do século XXI." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2015. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/11675.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:27:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Monica Aiub da Costa.pdf: 1133634 bytes, checksum: 2b3bbbb81de90d9935f6cff2e1982e44 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-16<br>This work is dedicated to review the concept of semiosis in clinic, starting from the articulation of the concepts of plasticity, mental causation and semiosis in Charles Sanders Peirce's philosophy, and in neuroscience. Its development perceived the means of semiosis and its implications in therapy, especially in the mental causation issues, considering that physical states and mental states

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Bantegnie, Brice. "Eliminating propositional attitudes concepts." Thesis, Paris, Ecole normale supérieure, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ENSU0020.

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Dans cette thèse je défends l'élimination des concepts d'attitudes propositionnelles. Dans le premier chapitre, je présente les thèses éliminativistes en philosophie de l'esprit et des sciences cognitives contemporaines. Il y a deux types d'éliminativisme: le matérialisme éliminatif et l'éliminativisme des concepts. Il est possible d'éliminer les concepts soit des théories naïves soit des théories scientifiques. L'éliminativisme à propos des concepts d'attitudes propositionnelles que je défends requière le second type d'élimination. Dans les trois chapitres suivants je donne trois arguments en

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Fischborn, Marcelo. "POR QUE (E POR QUE NÃO) REJEITAR O MONISMO ANÔMALO." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2014. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/9128.

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>Anomalous monism is a theory in the philosophy of mind put forth by Donald Davidson in the 1970s. Although influential at the time, it received numerous criticisms, and it is now widely rejected. The present Master s Dissertation argues for a revision of the reasons for which anomalous monism should be rejected. According to a well known objection in the literature, anomalous monism entails the thesis of property epiphenomenalism, and should be rejected because this consequence is unacceptable. It is proposed that this objection is

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Hall, Kimberlee A. "Gender, marital status, and psychiatric disorder, an examination of social causation versus social selection explanations for the gender-specific benefits of marriage for mental health." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0001/NQ41169.pdf.

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Oliveira, Cínthia Roso. "A relação mente-corpo: investigando a causação e a participação." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2017. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/6404.

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Hodges, Jennefer Anne. "Making sense of biological naturalism." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/13889.

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Searle’s theory of Biological Naturalism has been largely ignored in the philosophical literature and Searle’s commentators are confused by his seemingly contradictory views. In this dissertation I attempt to make sense of Biological Naturalism. In chapter 2 I will ascertain which concerns prevent Searle’s readers from understanding his position. The remaining chapters aim to dissolve the tensions and dispel any confusion. Chapter 3 considers Searle’s notion of first-person ontology, finding that it expresses a belief that experiences are essentially subjective and qualitative. In chapter 4 I

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Schröder, Felix. "Is Searle a Property Dualist?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Filosofiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-375774.

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It has often been argued that John Searle’s theory of mind, biological naturalism, due to its commitment to mental irreducibility amounts to no more than disguised property dualism. I suggest that a thorough analysis of Searle’s somewhat unusual views on the nature of reduction reveals this irreducibility to be not a metaphysical relation between mental properties and physical but one concerned only with the semantics of the respective terms used to refer to these. As a result, I argue, irreducibility in his sense is insufficient to support a metaphysical conclusion like property dualism. Fina

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Skogholt, Christoffer. "An Evolutionary Argument against Physicalism : or some advice to Jaegwon Kim and Alvin Plantinga." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-232893.

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According to the dominant tradition in Christianity and many other religions, human beings are both knowers and actors: beings with conscious beliefs about the world who sometimes act intentionally guided by these beliefs. According to philosopher of mind Robert Cummins the “received view” among philosophers of mind is epiphenomenalism, according to which mental causation does not exist: neural events are the underlying causes of both behavior and belief which explains the correlation (not causation) between belief and behavior. Beliefs do not, in virtue of their semantic content, enter the ca

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Uzai, Junior Paulo [UNESP]. "A relação mente-corpo em John Searle." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/143454.

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Ribeiro, Henrique de Morais. "Monadismo e fisicismo: um ensaio sobre as relações mente-corpo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-13092012-094622/.

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Nesta tese, desenvolve-se um argumento explicativo da relação mente-corpo fundamentada na noção de mônada, ou substância simples, como elemento ontológico estruturante de um enfoque contemporâneo da mencionada relação. Na primeira parte da tese, de natureza crítica, analisam-se as teorias fisicistas contemporâneas da mencionada relação, a saber, a teoria de superveniência da mente, da emergência e da causação mental, com vistas a justificar a proposta de assunção de uma premissa dualista que visa, principalmente, propor, em contraste com o cenário epifenomenalista do fisicismo contemporâneo, u

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Garshasbi, Masoud [Verfasser]. "Identification of 31 genomic loci for autosomal recessive mental retardation and molecular genetic characterization of novel causative mutations in four genes / Masoud Garshasbi." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1023623978/34.

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Motazacker, Mohammad Mahdi [Verfasser]. "Identification of novel genetic loci for non-syndromic autosomal recessive mental retardation and molecular genetic characterization of a causative GRIK2 mutation / Mohammad Mahdi Motazacker." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2008. http://d-nb.info/102325929X/34.

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Tiehen, Justin Thomas 1977. "Normativism and mental causation." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/15973.

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This dissertation defends a certain view of the mind/body relation, according to which although there is a sense in which everything is physical, there is also a sense in which mental phenomena are irreducible to physical phenomena. The reason for this irreducibility, according to the position defended in this work, is that the mental has a certain normative character which the physical lacks. The central thesis defended in the first part of the work is the claim, advanced by Donald Davidson among others, that the mental realm is governed by constitutive principles of rationality. I both att

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Delic, Nebojsa. "Jaegwon Kim on mental causation." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/15802.

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"Russellian Monism and Mental Causation." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.49164.

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abstract: Russellian monism is a promising theory of consciousness that attempts to capture the strengths of both physicalism and dualism while avoiding their weaknesses. I begin by showing that the Russellian monist’s chief anti-physicalist rival, emergentism, is unable to give an adequate solution to the exclusion problem. Specifically, they fall prey to what I call “the opacity problem.” That is, because the emergentist is committed to there being both a sufficient physical cause and a sufficient mental cause for our actions, it is unclear what difference the mental cause is making in bring

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Chen, Bo-Ching, and 陳柏青. "Can Non-Reductive Physicalism Explain Mental Causation?" Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46903414382649879662.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>哲學研究所<br>95<br>Could these three theses, mental realism, the physical causal closure principle and mental causation jointly be consistent with each other? It seems that mental realism and mental causation will result in the failure of the physical causal closure principle. On the other hand, the physical causal closure principle will threaten the other two theses. In this thesis I am concerned with the problem of how to make these three theses consistent. Kim is a philosopher who has done the best in dealing with the issue of mental causation. He rejects the existence of menta

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Baltimore, Joseph A. "The arguement from reason and the problem of mental causation." 2007. http://www.library.wisc.edu/databases/connect/dissertations.html.

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Judisch, Neal Damian Kane Robert Koons Robert C. "Mechanism, purpose and agency the metaphysics of mental causation and free will /." 2005. http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/1584/judischd41795.pdf.

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Judisch, Neal Damian. "MECHANISM, PURPOSE AND AGENCY: the metaphysics of mental causation and free will." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1584.

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"The Conceptual Span and Plausibility of Emergence Applied to the Problem of Mental Causation." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.17919.

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abstract: This thesis explores the conceptual span and plausibility of emergence and its applicability to the problem of mental causation. The early parts of the project explicate a distinction between weak and strong emergence as described by Jaegwon Kim. They also consider Kim's objections regarding the conceptual incoherence of strong emergence and the otiose nature of weak emergence. The paper then explores Mark Bedau's in-between conception of emergence and ultimately finds that middle conception to be both coherent and useful. With these three emergence distinctions in hand, the thesis g

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Steur, Thomas Lieven. "Difference-makers in human affective distress: perspectives on causation and recovery gained from qualitative inquiry into lived experience." 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32219.

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The biomedical conceptualisation of “depression” as a disease entity stems from biological science rooted in a 17th century paradigm, and is an inappropriately positivist idea which discounts individual agency, disregards social context underscored in the descriptive epidemiology, fails to accommodate inter-subjectivity and process, medicalizes suffering, and serves a managed care model of health administration. A qualitative study using in-depth interviews was undertaken to elicit perspectives from individuals who had lived experience of biomedical (pharmacological) treatment for affective di

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