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Mental Causation and Epiphenomenalism
In Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 174–181 (2010)
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mental causation and epiphenomenalism epiphenomenalism, most often cast as a thesis in the philosophy of mind mental events (or properties) ‐ resembling smoke given off by a steam locomotive epiphenomenalism ‐ distinguished from parallelism epiphenomenalism, intimate connection between physical goings‐on ‘non‐reductive physicalism,’ making mental properties dependent on physical properties non‐reductive physicalists, seeing epiphenomenalism as a threat epiphenomenalists of whatever stripe ‐ denying a plausible metaphysical principle, the ‘Eleatic Principle,’ or ‘Alexander's Dictum’
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