Questions tagged [mental-causation]
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Must all ultimate causes be mindless?
When we say that John caused the movement of his arm, what do we really mean? Presumably, John’s decision to move the arm is caused by the laws underpinning his brain. Either these laws are ...
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Is this a good argument against mental causation?
If mental causation exists, then mental phenomena would affect the bodies of sentient beings.
Then the bodies of sentient beings (and only they) would be affected by an additional set of causal ...
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