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Epiphenomenalism and the Epistemic Argument
The epistemic argument against epiphenomenalism aims to prove that even if epiphenomenalism is true, its adherents are not able to justify their...
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Free Will & Empirical Arguments for Epiphenomenalism
While philosophers have worried about mental causation for centuries, worries about the causal relevance of conscious phenomena are also increasingly...
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Resolving the evolutionary paradox of consciousness
Evolutionary fitness threats and rewards are associated with subjectively unpleasant and pleasant sensations, respectively. Initially, these...
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Dualism all the way down: why there is no paradox of phenomenal judgment
Epiphenomenalist dualists hold that certain physical states give rise to non-physical conscious experiences, but that these non-physical experiences...
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Rejecting epiphobia
Epiphenomenalism denies some or all putative cases of mental causation. The view is widely taken to be absurd: if a theory can be shown to entail...
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Towards a Unitary Case for Russellian Panpsychism
One of the most pressing challenges that occupy the Russellian panpsychist’s agenda is to come up with a way to reconcile the traditional argument...
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The Cries of Spirit: Santayana in Dialogue with Andrey Platonov
Flamm examines a dominant theme in Santayana’s philosophy: the spiritual life. He puts Santayana’s philosophy in dialogue with the novella Soul...
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Does Panpsychism Explain Mental Causation?
In the contemporary literature on panpsychism, one often finds the claim that a Russellian-monist version of panpsychism, i.e., Russellian panpsychism ...
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Recurring Dilemmas on Other Minds
This chapter critiques the notion of identity, a philosophical reaction in the Quinean sense that vindicates another significant hypothesis, which is...
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Santayana: Philosopher for the Twenty-First Century
Scepticism and Animal Faith marks a turning point in Santayana’s philosophy leading to the development of his complete naturalism, and, if followed,...
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Intuitions About Free Will and the Failure to Comprehend Determinism
Theories of free will are often measured against how well they capture everyday intuitions about free will. But what are these everyday intuitions,...
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The IKEA effect and the production of epistemic goods
Behavioral economists have proposed that people are subject to an IKEA effect, whereby they attach greater value to products they make for...
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Reductive Representationalism and the Determination of Phenomenal Properties
Reductive representationalism offers a promising route to an intelligible account of phenomenal consciousness. However, reductive representationalist...
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A mechanism that realizes strong emergence
The causal efficacy of a material system is usually thought to be produced by the law-like actions and interactions of its constituents. Here, a...
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The Mind-Body Problem: An Overview of Proposed Solutions
The Philosophy of Mind consists of problems concerning aspects and properties of the human mind. The most important of these problems is that of the...
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Kinds of Mental Content
A science of the mental does not need to start with well-defined kinds, it can start with ‘folk’ definitions and refine them as the science matures....
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Modeling interventions in multi-level causal systems: supervenience, exclusion and underdetermination
This paper explores some issues concerning how we should think about interventions (in the sense of unconfounded manipulations) of "upper-level"...
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The Binding Problem for Strong Experiential Monism
In this article, I explicate a new problem for a variant of panpsychism, strong experiential monism, that is the view that all being is experiential....
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Emergent agent causation
In this paper I argue that many scholars involved in the contemporary free will debates have underappreciated the philosophical appeal of agent...
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Mental Causation—Problems and Buddhist Response
When one says, “I had a desire to have a glass of water and this was followed by my action to fetch the glass of water” then the common sense...