Interrogating the Epiphenomenalist Tradition

Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani

doi:10.1007/s40961-016-0065-7

Interrogating the Epiphenomenalist Tradition

Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani

Department of Philosophy and Classics

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Abstract

Epiphenomenalism has had a long historical tradition. It is the view that mental properties are causally inert with respect to the physical world. In this paper, I argue that this tradition faces enormous challenges and needs better arguments to defend its position, and to demonstrate this, I interrogate the (mostly contemporary) strands including computationalism, the idea of the illusion of conscious will, and causal exclusionism.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	481-501
Number of pages	21
Journal	Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research
Volume	33
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s40961-016-0065-7
Publication status	Published - 1 Sep 2016

Keywords

Automatism
Consciousness
Epiphenomenalism
Mental causation
Mind
Physicalism

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