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13The case of poor postpartum mental health: a consequence of an evolutionary mismatch – not of an evolutionary trade-offBiology and Philosophy 38 (3): 1-21. 2023.Postpartum mood disorders develop shortly after childbirth in a significant proportion of women and have severe effects. Two evolutionary explanations are currently available. The first is that poor postpartum mental health is a consequence of an evolutionary trade-off – a compromise of neurological changes in the maternal brain during pregnancy which, on the one hand, maintain pregnancy, and on the other, increase the likelihood for postpartum women to develop psychopathology. The second explan…Read more
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19Birthing as an experience of awe: Birthing consciousness and its long-term positive effectsJournal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 43 (1): 16-30. 2023.
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26The Problem of Other (Group) MindsPhilosophia 45 (3): 1099-1112. 2017.In recent papers, Eric Schwitzgebel argues that if physicalism is true, then the United States is probably conscious. My primary aim here is to demonstrate that the source of Schwitzgebel’s conditional argument is the “Problem of Other Minds,” which is a general problem; wherefore, Schwitzgebel’s conclusion should be revised and applied not only to physicalism, but to most contemporary theories of the mind. I analyze the difference between Schwitzgebel’s argument and other arguments against func…Read more
Orli Dahan
Tel Hai College
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Tel Hai CollegeDepartment of Philosophy
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
General Philosophy of Science |