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Visar resultat 6 - 7 av 7 uppsatser innehållade orden mental causation.

1. 6. An Evolutionary Argument against Physicalism : or some advice to Jaegwon Kim and Alvin Plantinga

   Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Författare :Christoffer Skogholt; [2014]
   Nyckelord :philosophy of mind; reductionism; mental causation; Jaegwon Kim; Alvin Plantinga; The myth of nonreductive materialism the evolutionary argument against naturalism ;

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

3. 7. Tropes and Mind: In Defense of the Trope Solution to the Problem of Mental Causation

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Teoretisk filosofi

   Författare :Erik Jansson; [2013]
   Nyckelord :mental causation; properties; trope monism; multiple realizability; Philosophy and Religion;

   Sammanfattning : The trope solution to the problem of mental causation combines a trope monism, i.e. that properties are tropes and all tropes are physical, with a type dualism, i.e. LÄS MER