10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPIPHENOMENALIST»
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epiphenomenalist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates
I take the epiphenomenalist suspicion seriously. Consciousness might be
essential to our natures without being centrally involved in the causal fray. I have
suggested at several points that we take seriously the idea that conscious
experience ...
Ned Joel Block, Owen J. Flanagan, Güven Güzeldere, 1997
According to Noordhof, the epiphenomenalist has no independently satisfactory
account of the asymmetric causal character of mental facts or events. On the one
hand, the epiphenomenalist is happy to appeal to facts of experience to defend ...
Hallvard Lillehammer, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, 2003
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The Nature of Consciousness
The actualist model, that is, goes hand in hand with what we might call an
epiphenomenalist suspicion about the nature of the phenomenal. 2. This
epiphenomenalist suspicion is logically quite distinct from more well-known
worries about the ...
4
Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction
First, a familiar difficulty, the nature of body-to-mind, material-to-mental causal
relations, is none too clear. Many philosophers accept the idea that causal
relations hold among events. The epiphenomenalist contends that some material
events ...
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Descartes to gender ...
Then the actions would not have existed either. So if the conscious states had not
existed, nor would the actions, and so once again the conscious states count as
causes of the actions. The epiphenomenalist needs to insist that the sequences,
...
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Then the actions would not have existed either. So if the conscious states had not
existed, nor would the actions, and so once again the conscious states count as
causes of the actions. The epiphenomenalist needs to insist that the sequences,
...
Routledge (COR), Luciano Floridi, Edward Craig
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Evolutionary Arguments and the Mind-body Problem
(For each live epiphenomenalist possibility, there would be a corresponding
physicalist one. When the evidence was gathered and individual determinate
versions of physicalism and epiphenomenalism were ruled out because they
conflicted ...
Joseph Anthony Corabi, 2007
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Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?
The epiphenomenalist adopts the same Cartesian framework and simply
answers No to the question. Action is nothing more than motor behavior
determined by processes other than conscious thought. The epiphenomenalist
does not deny ...
Susan Pockett, William P. Banks, Shaun Gallagher, 2009
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The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness
Grantham and Nichols proceed cautiously because they are concerned to keep
at bay the critic who adopts a skeptical or epiphenomenalist critique. Working
under these constraints, they outline evidence for thinking that some systems ...
Max Velmans, Susan Schneider, 2008
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Polity and Society: Philosophical Underpinnings of Social ...
In social science terms, an individual's income and material circumstances
produce an awareness of class membership, according to epiphenomenalist
materialism. Physicalism, on the other hand, is the view that the mind is physical
in the ...
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EPIPHENOMENALIST»
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Christianity as hard determinism, part 2
The Christian would do well, of course, to avoid Nietzsche's epiphenomenalist account of the phenomenology of free will, according to which ... «Examiner.com, May 15»
What Book Changed Your Mind?
Panpsychist epiphenomenalist property dualism! Surely this can't be where our best reasoning about consciousness leads us? But the ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov 14»
What is consciousness?
I know only one epiphenomenalist in London, sometimes seen among the good atheists in Conway Hall. A decent theory or analysis of ... «OUPblog, Jul 14»
Consciousness and Other Stories -- the Making of a Thriller, Part III
Note, however, that the price of establishing, in this manner, a mind/body distinction is that we find ourselves back in the epiphenomenalist ... «Huffington Post, Jun 14»
Where Consciousness Comes From
You seem to paint the picture of thinking in this field as though there's you and then everyone else is an epiphenomenalist. But that's clearly not ... «Gizmodo, Aug 13»
Spot the Vegetarian
To get technical, I'm an Epiphenomenalist, which is basically someone who believes the workings of the mind come from the chemical ... «VICE, Jul 13»
Epiphenomenalism Explained
An epiphenomenalist contends that those who claim that free will is compatible with determinism are using the term 'free will' simply as a description of the ... «Philosophy Now, Nov 10»
Consciousness: Creeping Up on the Hard Problem by Jeffrey Gray
So much for Gray's struggle to escape “from the epiphenomenalist trap without falling into the dualist pit.” (p.111)! How does consciousness arise in the brain, ... «Philosophy Now, Nov 04»
