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Sven Walter

Universität Osnabrück
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  • Universität Osnabrück
    Institute of Cognitive Science
    Regular Faculty
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Philosophy of Biology
17th/18th Century Philosophy
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Mental Causation
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    Erwin Rogler und Gerhard Preyer: Materialismus, anomaler monismus und mentale kausalität. Frankfurt: Humanities online, 2001
    Grazer Philosophische Studien 65 (1): 251-255. 2002.
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    Preface
    with Achim Stephan
    Erkenntnis 83 (1): 1-1. 2018.
    British Philosophy
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    Taking realization seriously: no cure for epiphobia (review)
    Philosophical Studies 151 (2). 2010.
    The realization relation that allegedly holds between mental and physical properties plays a crucial role for so-called non-reductive physicalism because it is supposed to secure both the ontological autonomy of mental properties and, despite their irreducibility, their ability to make a causal difference to the course of the causally closed physical world. For a long time however, the nature of realization has largely been ignored in the philosophy of mind until a couple of years ago authors li…Read more
    The realization relation that allegedly holds between mental and physical properties plays a crucial role for so-called non-reductive physicalism because it is supposed to secure both the ontological autonomy of mental properties and, despite their irreducibility, their ability to make a causal difference to the course of the causally closed physical world. For a long time however, the nature of realization has largely been ignored in the philosophy of mind until a couple of years ago authors like Carl Gillett, Derk Pereboom, or Sydney Shoemaker proposed accounts according to which realization is understood against the background of the so-called 'causal theory of properties'. At least partially, the hope was to solve the problem of mental causation, in particular the kind of causal exclusion reasoning made famous by Jaegwon Kim, in a way acceptable to nonreductive physicalists. The paper asks whether a proper explication of the realization relation can indeed help explain how physically realized mental properties can be causally efficacious in the causally closed physical world and argues for a negative answer: it is important for the non-reductive physicalist to understand what exactly the realization relation amounts to, but it does not solve the problem of mental causation
    The Exclusion ProblemFunctional RealizationSubset View of Realization
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    Physicalism, or something near enough, by Jaegwon Kim
    European Journal of Philosophy 16 (1). 2008.
    Nonreductive MaterialismFormulating PhysicalismThe Exclusion Problem
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    Ist der Epiphänomenalismus absurd? Ein frischer Blick auf eine tot geglaubte Position
    Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 62 (3): 415-432. 2008.
    Der Epiphänomenalismus ist eine Position in der Philosophie des Geistes, wonach mentale Ereignisse zwar vollständige physikalische Ursachen haben, selbst aber keine Ursachen oder Teilursachen anderer Ereignisse sind. Entgegen einer weit verbreiteten Meinung tritt die vorliegende Arbeit dafür ein, dass der Epiphänomenalismus keineswegs vollkommen absurd und unhaltbar ist. Es wird zunächst dafür argumentiert, dass er einige der gegen ihn üblicherweise erhobenen Einwände zwar sehr leicht entkräften…Read more
    Der Epiphänomenalismus ist eine Position in der Philosophie des Geistes, wonach mentale Ereignisse zwar vollständige physikalische Ursachen haben, selbst aber keine Ursachen oder Teilursachen anderer Ereignisse sind. Entgegen einer weit verbreiteten Meinung tritt die vorliegende Arbeit dafür ein, dass der Epiphänomenalismus keineswegs vollkommen absurd und unhaltbar ist. Es wird zunächst dafür argumentiert, dass er einige der gegen ihn üblicherweise erhobenen Einwände zwar sehr leicht entkräften kann, an anderen jedoch aus Gründen, die bislang kaum beachtet wurden, zu scheitern droht. Anschließend wird eine Strategie diskutiert, mittels derer sich der Epiphänomenalismus unter bestimmten Bedingungen gegen einen Großteil der Einwände immunisieren kann; zugleich werden jedoch aber auch einige interne Schwierigkeiten angesprochen, die in diesem Zusammenhang zu Tage treten und den Epiphänomenalismus vor bislang in ihrer Tragweite nicht hinreichend erfasste Probleme stellen. Die Arbeit schließt mit einigen Spekulationen zu einer alternativen Variante des Epiphänomenalismus, die einen Teil dieser Probleme vermeiden kann
  • Does Consciousness Cause Behavior? (review)
    History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 12. 2009.
    Consciousness and Psychology
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    Wie frei sind wir eigentlich empirisch?
    Philosophia Naturalis 46 (1): 8-35. 2009.
  • Selected Contributions to GAP.6: Sixth International Conference of the German Society for Analytical Philosophy, Berlin, 11–14 September 2006 (edited book)
    with Helen Bohse
    Mentis. 2007.
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    Situated Cognition: A Field Guide to Some Open Conceptual and Ontological Issues
    Review of Philosophy and Psychology 5 (2): 241-263. 2014.
    This paper provides an overview over the debate about so-called “situated approaches to cognition” that depart from the intracranialism associated with traditional cognitivism insofar as they stress the importance of body, world, and interaction for cognitive processing. It sketches the outlines of an overarching framework that reveals the differences, commonalities, and interdependencies between the various claims and positions of second-generation cognitive science, and identifies a number of …Read more
    This paper provides an overview over the debate about so-called “situated approaches to cognition” that depart from the intracranialism associated with traditional cognitivism insofar as they stress the importance of body, world, and interaction for cognitive processing. It sketches the outlines of an overarching framework that reveals the differences, commonalities, and interdependencies between the various claims and positions of second-generation cognitive science, and identifies a number of apparently unresolved conceptual and ontological issues
    Philosophy of Cognitive ScienceEmbodiment and Situated Cognition
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    Physicalism and Mental Causation: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action (edited book)
    with Heinz-Dieter Heckmann
    Imprint Academic. 2003.
    This book presents a range of essays on the conceptual foundations of physicalism, mental causation and human agency, written by established and leading authors ...
    Consciousness of ActionPhysicalism about the Mind, MiscFormulating PhysicalismMultiple RealizabilityRead more
    Consciousness of ActionPhysicalism about the Mind, MiscFormulating PhysicalismMultiple RealizabilityPsychological LawsNonreductive MaterialismOther Psychophysical Relations, MiscCausal Theory of ActionMental Causation, MiscThe Exclusion ProblemCausal OverdeterminationCausal Closure of the PhysicalReasons and Causes
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