Essays about: "mental causation"

Found 5 essays containing the words mental causation.

1. 1. Is Searle a Property Dualist?

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

   Author : Felix Schröder; [2019]
   Keywords : John Searle; biological naturalism; reduction; consciousness; property dualism; mental causation; causality; physicalism; philosophy of mind; epiphenomenalism; overdetermination;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

3. 2. Sensegiving in initial strategy implementation: A constructivist grounded theory study on sensegiving and underlying cognitive aspects

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

   Author : Tommy Manderlöw; [2015]
   Keywords : Sensegiving; Strategy implementation; Collective leadership; Cognitive theory; Mental models;

   Abstract : This study examines important features of the initial sensegiving process in strategy implementation and how those features further can be understood from a cognitive perspective. A qualitative constructivist grounded theory approach to study sensegiving as a collective process in organizations is applied. READ MORE

4. 3. On Kim's critique of non-reductive physicalism

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

   Author : Roque Molina; [2015]
   Keywords : Nonreductive physicalism; downward causation; causal closure; levels; irreducibility;

   Abstract : Kim criticizes non-reductive physicalism as a suitable metaphysics of mind among things because of its failure on the issue of mental causation. The failure is especially present in the thesis of supervenience physicalism. READ MORE

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

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

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

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

6. 5. Tropes and Mind: In Defense of the Trope Solution to the Problem of Mental Causation

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Teoretisk filosofi

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

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE