Questions about the existence and nature of mental causation are prominent in
contemporary discussions of the mind and human agency. Originally, the problem of mental …

As a first pass, physicalism is the doctrine that there is nothing over and above the physical.
Much recent philosophical work has been devoted to spelling out what this means in more …

Misconceptions about energy conservation abound due to the gap between physics and
secondary school chemistry. This paper surveys this difference and its relevance to the …

Abstract Since Leibniz's time, Cartesian mental causation has been criticized for violating
the conservation of energy and momentum.(Non-epiphenomenalist property dualism is …

Panpsychism is the view that every concrete and unified thing has some form of
phenomenal consciousness or experience. It is an age-old doctrine, which, to the surprise of …

Our minds have physical effects. This happens, for instance, when we move our bodies
when we act. How is this possible? Thomas Kroedel defends an account of mental …

The conservation laws do not establish the central premise within the argument from causal
overdetermination–the causal completeness of the physical domain. Contrary to David …

It would seem that one reason to be a panpsychist—that is, to think that conscious
experience more or less pervades the universe—is that panpsychism obviates the need to …

Many mathematicians are platonists: they believe that the axioms of mathematics are true
because they express the structure of a nonspatiotemporal, mind independent, realm. But …

The mind–body problem is the problem of explaining how the happenings of our mental
lives are related to physical states, events and processes. Proposed solutions to the problem …