Mental Causation
There is mental causation whenever a mental state, event, process, or activity has a causal effect. The pursuit of our lives seems replete with mental causation. It may thus seem as o...
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Mental-Physical Distinction
The distinction between the mental and the physical is central both to commonsense thinking about the world and to many philosophical, scientific, and religious theories. P...
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Mind-Body Problem
In Genesis 3:19, God tells Adam, "dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return," reminding Adam that he was fashioned from the dust of the earth. Modern science tells...
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Nonreductive Physicalism
Beginning the 1960s Hilary Putnam, Jerry Fodor, and Richard Boyd, among others, developed a type of materialism that denies reductionist claims. In this view, explanations, na...
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Philosophy of Mind
The mind seems to occupy a special place in the world. It is the seat of thought and feeling, of rationality and moral concern. Is it fundamentally different from the other things w...
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The Mind and the Physical Body
Since the times of Plato and Aristotle, the argument of dualism and mutualism of the mind and body has been in existence. Dualism has been the driving force behind the...
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Mental Causation
