Epiphenomenalism is a position of philosophy of mind on the mind–body problem which holds that subjective mental events are completely dependent for their existence on corresponding physical and biochemical events within the human body, yet themselves have no influence over physical events. According to epiphenomenalism, the appearance that subjective mental states (such as intentions) influence physical events is an illusion, consciousness being a by-product of physical states of the world. For instance, fear seems to make the heart beat faster, but according to epiphenomenalism the biochemical secretions of the brain and nervous system (such as adrenaline)—not the experience of fear—is what raises the heartbeat.[1] Because mental events are a kind of overflow that cannot cause anything physical, yet have non-physical properties, epiphenomenalism is viewed as a form of property dualism.
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several who have argued for a version of epiphenomenalism. In 1970, Keith Campbell proposed his "new epiphenomenalism", which states that the body produces...
epiphenomena in weak epiphenomenalism), but not able to have an effect on the physical world. Instrumentalist versions of epiphenomenalism allow some mental...
the mind. Jackson argued that if both of these theses are true, then epiphenomenalism is true—the view that mental states are caused by physical states,...
Mind–body dualism) and one-way body-to-mind causality (e.g., materialism, epiphenomenalism). Parallelism is a theory which is related to dualism and which suggests...
substance and property dualism are opposed to reductive physicalism. Epiphenomenalism is a doctrine about mental-physical causal relations which holds that...
They are Epiphenomenal ectoplasm, the lone ammonium molecule problem, modal status problem and the problem of necessary beings. Epiphenomenal ectoplasm...
computer science, evolutionary psychology, and the neurosciences. Epiphenomenalism is the theory in philosophy of mind that mental phenomena are caused...
subjective experience because they cannot account for its mental events. Epiphenomenalism, according to Stanford, "Is the view that mental events are caused...
world to have an effect on the physical world. In various forms of Epiphenomenalism, the physical world can cause effects in the mental world, but not...
content. In generative frameworks, constructions are generally treated as epiphenomenal, being derived by the general syntactic rules of the language in question...
qualia as epiphenomenal, Jackson attempts to protect them from the demand of playing a causal role. Later, however, Jackson rejected epiphenomenalism. This...
delivery area of each city carrier. For example: Mr. John Smith 3256 Epiphenomenal Avenue Minneapolis 16, Minnesota The "16" is the number of the postal...
the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism." In a footnote Dennett states: "It would be an act of desperate intellectual...
Immaterial souls exist, but exert no causal influence, free or determined (epiphenomenalism, occasionalism) Immaterial souls do not exist – there is no mind–body...
epiphenomenalists would agree that mental events do not have causal power, but epiphenomenalism is objectionable to many philosophers. One way of maintaining the causal...
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