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36Social Cognitive Training Improves Emotional Processing and Reduces Aggressive Attitudes in Ex-combatantsFrontiers in Psychology 8. 2017.
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15Emotional actions: A new approachTheoria 89 (5): 671-689. 2023.The recent philosophical literature on emotional action is divided between Humeans, who think that emotional action, for all its peculiarities, can in fact be explained along Humean lines, that is, with belief–desire pairs; and emotionists, who think that emotional actions can only be explained by appealing to emotions and some of their special features. After reviewing this philosophical discussion, I will argue, first, that none of the philosophical accounts of emotional action analysed, wheth…Read more
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10Filosofía de la mente y Ciencia Cognitiva (review)Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 12 (2): 381-383. 1997.
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4The logical form of action sentences and the Anscombe thesisEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 21 51. 1993.
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2Emotions, Appraisals, and Embodied AppraisalsCritica 47 (140): 3-30. 2015.La teoría perceptiva de las emociones que Jesse Prinz ha defendido recientemente mantiene la tesis jamesiana según la cual la emoción es un efecto causal del conjunto de cambios corporales que aparecen típicamente durante los episodios emotivos, y es, por tanto, posterior a dichos cambios. Prinz defiende también que las emociones encierran valoraciones del estímulo emotivo, pero a la vista de sus razones a favor de la tesis jamesiana, sostiene que tales valoraciones son corporeizadas. En este tr…Read more
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27The Causal Exclusion PuzzleEuropean Journal of Philosophy 10 (1): 26-42. 2002.The article is divided into two parts. The first part offers a careful reconstruction and detailed discussion of the argument of causal exclusion, as well as of the implications it has for physicalism. In its second part the article examines two important objections to the causal exclusion argument: the generalization objection, which holds that the argument is unacceptable since it confers causal efficacy only to ultimate basic properties, which arguably might not exist; and Yablo’s objection, …Read more
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15Causal Exclusion and Causal HomogeneityDialectica 59 (1): 63-66. 2005.One of the aims of “Mental Causation and Mental Properties” is to argue that Kim's position with respect to the problem of causal exclusion does not entail the causal heterogeneity of higher‐level properties pace Kim himself. I find that Esfeld's argument misses the point of Kim's position. In what follows I shall briefly try to explain why.
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671Shoemaker's Analysis of Realization: A ReviewPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 94 (1): 97-120. 2017.Sydney Shoemaker has been arguing for more than a decade for an account of the mind–body problem in which the notion of realization takes centre stage. His aim is to provide a notion of realization that is consistent with the multiple realizability of mental properties or events, and which explains: how the physical grounds the mental; and why the causal work of mental events is not screened off by that of physical events. Shoemaker's proposal consists of individuating properties in terms of cau…Read more
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14Functionalism and Nonreductive PhysicalismTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 16 (1): 43-63. 2001.Most philosophers of mind nowadays espouse two metaphysical views: Nonreductive Physicalism and the causal efficacy of the mental. Nevertheless, this position is threatened by a number of serious difficulties. In this paper, I propose a metaphysical account of functional properties and show how this proposal is able to overcome some of these difficulties, in particular, some recent arguments against the causal efficacy of multiply realized properties. However, in the second part of the paper an …Read more
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1Un argumento davidsoniano contra el monismo anómaloCritica 33 (97): 33-61. 2001.An argument is offered which purports to show that Davidson's argument for Physical Monism is inconsistent with the thesis of Anomalism of the Mental.
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28Por qué el problema del hiato explicativo es realmente un problema para el fisicismoAnálisis Filosófico 24 (2): 135-164. 2004.En este artículo exploro el compatibilismo, el punto de vista según el cual la tesis del hiato o hueco explicativo entre lo fenoménico y lo físico es compatible con una metafísica fisicista. Defiendo que el argumento del dualismo de propiedades es un argumento incompatibilista más fuerte que el argumento de Jackson-Chalmers o el de Kripke y exploro críticamente algunos intentos recientes de replicar al mismo. La conclusión a la que llego es que una posición compatibilista capaz de dar una respue…Read more
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Searle y el problema de la exclusión causalTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 18 (1). 1999.
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52Information and contentPhilosophical Issues 9 381-387. 1998.In this paper I discuss critically Stalnaker's views on content.
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139Synchronous Events in By-SentencesTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 18 (3): 351-357. 2003.It has been suggested in the literature about actions that one can honour the philosophical intuition lying behind Davidson’s argument for the Anscombe Thesis (the claim that by-sentences --sentcnccs used to report actions of the general form: ‘A X-ed by V-ing’-- involve two descriptions of the same action) without accepting the argument’s conclusion. The suggestion in question is to interpret by-sentences as referring to two synchronous but different actions of the same agent. I argue that this…Read more
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112A mereological characterization of physicalismInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 20 (3). 2006.Physicalism is usually understood as the claim that every empirical entity is or is determined by physical entities. The claim is however imprecise until it is clarified what are the physical entities in question. A sceptical argument in the form of a dilemma tries to show that this problem of formulation of physicalism cannot be adequately met. If we understand physical entities as the entities introduced by current physics, the resulting claim becomes most probably false. If we instead underst…Read more
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115The causal exclusion puzzleEuropean Journal of Philosophy 10 (1): 26-42. 2002.In a series of influential articles (Kim 1989b, 1992b, 1993a and 1998), Jaegwon Kim has developed a strong argument against nonreductive physicalism as a plausible solution to mental causation. The argument is commonly called the ’causal exclusion argument’, and it has become, over the years, one of the most serious threats to the nonreductivist point of view. In the first part of this paper I offer a careful reconstruction and detailed discussion of the exclusion argument. In the second part I …Read more
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96Non‐committal Causal ExplanationsInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24 (2): 147-170. 2010.Some causal explanations are non-committal in that mention of a property in the explanans conveys information about the causal origin of the explanandum even if the property in question plays no causal role for the explanandum . Programme explanations are a variety of non-committal causal (NCC) explanations. Yet their interest is very limited since, as I will argue in this paper, their range of applicability is in fact quite narrow. However there is at least another variety of NCC explanations, …Read more
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15Synchronous Events in By-SentencesTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 18 (3): 351-357. 2003.It has been suggested in the literature about actions that one can honour the philosophical intuition lying behind Davidson’s argument for the Anscombe Thesis (the claim that by-sentences --sentcnccs used to report actions of the general form: ‘A X-ed by V-ing’-- involve two descriptions of the same action) without accepting the argument’s conclusion. The suggestion in question is to interpret by-sentences as referring to two synchronous but different actions of the same agent. I argue that this…Read more
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82Causal exclusion and causal homogeneityDialectica 59 (1): 63-66. 2005.In this brief note I claim that, contrary to what Esfeld argues in his paper in this same volume, Kim's position with respect to the problem of causal exclusion does indeed commit him to the causal heterogeneity of realized properties.
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33The Modal Argument against Materialism and Intertheoretic IdentitiesDialectica 69 (4): 491-515. 2015.In this paper I discuss, on behalf of the materialist, a consideration against the modal or conceivability argument against materialism which was first voiced in the third lecture of Naming and Necessity. This consideration is based on intertheoretic identities, statements in which both terms flanking the identity sign are theoretical. I argue that the defender of the conceivability argument has trouble to account for the appearance of contingency in those types of necessary identities. In fact,…Read more
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14Searle y el problema de la exclusion de la exclusion causal: Vindicacion del materialismo frente al naturalismo biologicoTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 18 (1): 155-170. 1999.
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195Functionalism and nonreductive physicalismTheoria 16 (40): 43-63. 2001.Most philosophers of mind nowadays espouse two metaphysical views: Nonreductive Physicalism and the causal efficacy of the mental. Throughout this work I will refer to the conjunction of both claims as the Causal Autonomy of the Mental. Nevertheless, this position is threatened by a number of difficulties which are far more serious than one would imagine given the broad consensus that it has generated during the last decades. This paper purports to offer a careful examination of some of these di…Read more
David Pineda
University of Girona
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University of GironaAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |