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P/P/213. Do mental events cause physical events? Critique of physicalism

WORDS:
2000
DATE:
2006
PRICE:
29.99 GBP

The paper poses a question if mental events may cause physical events revealing a conflict of ideas on the possibility of mental causation. A critical review of the physicalistic approach and identity theories is presented challenging the assumption that physics is a causally closed system.

 

KEYWORDS: mental, events, cause, physical, events, critique, physicalism,