Lynne Rudder Baker University of Massachusetts Amherst he first-person perspective is a
challenge to naturalism. Naturalistic theories are relentlessly third-personal. The first-person …

The expression 'non-reductive materialism'refers to a variety of positions whose roots lie in
attempts to solve the mind–body problem. Proponents of non-reductive materialism hold that …

Most contemporary philosophers of action agree on the following claims. Firstly, the
possibility of deviant or wayward causal chains poses a serious problem for the standard …

When we say that one thing caused another in virtue of certain of its properties, we attribute
a case of property causation. A necessary condition for property causation is that an …

One dimension along which it is tempting to characterize some mental disorders is
irrationality. The two ways of understanding the irrationality of delusion in particular are in …

Scott Sturgeon has claimed to undermine the principal argument for Physicalism, in his
words, the view that'actuality is exhausted by physical reality'(Sturgeon 1998, p. 410). In …

Physicalism was initially motivated by its ability to deal with the problems of mental–physical
interaction. The most attractive version of physicalism, though, is one which allows the …

In this paper I try to fix the price that a non-epiphenomenal dualism demands. To begin with,
the defender of non-epiphenomenal dualism cannot hold that mental events cause physical …

EMENTA: OBJETIVO GERAL: Apresentar o problema da causação mental na sua origem
(Descartes, Elizabeth de Bohemia, Leibniz e Kant) e nos debates atuais, particularmente …

Mainstream philosophy of action and mind construes intentional behaviour in terms of
causal processes that lead from agent-involving mental states to action. Actions are …