PhilPeople

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Areas of Specialization

Explaining Consciousness?

Incompatibilism

Dualism about Consciousness

Aspects of Time

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Areas of Interest

Philosophy of Consciousness

Theories of Free Will, Misc

Incompatibilism

Machine Consciousness

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On the causal completeness of physics
Agustin Vicente

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 20 (2). 2006.

According to an increasing number of authors, the best, if not the only, argument in favour of physicalism is the so-called 'overdetermination argument'. This argument, if sound, establishes that all the entities that enter into causal interactions with the physical world are physical. One key premise in the overdetermination argument is the principle of the causal closure of the physical world, said to be supported by contemporary physics. In this paper, I examine various ways in which physics …Read more
According to an increasing number of authors, the best, if not the only, argument in favour of physicalism is the so-called 'overdetermination argument'. This argument, if sound, establishes that all the entities that enter into causal interactions with the physical world are physical. One key premise in the overdetermination argument is the principle of the causal closure of the physical world, said to be supported by contemporary physics. In this paper, I examine various ways in which physics may support the principle, either as a methodological guide or as depending on some other laws and principles of physics
Human Freedom and the Self
Roderick Chisholm

In Robert Kane (ed.), Free Will, Blackwell. 1964.

This is the text of The Lindley Lecture for 1964, given by Roderick M. Chisholm (1916-1999), an American philosopher