Pernu, Tuomas K. (2018) Mental causation via neuroprosthetics? A critical analysis. Synthese. ISSN 1573-0964
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Some recent arguments defending the genuine causal efficacy of the mental have been relying on empirical research on neuroprosthetics. This essay presents a critical analysis of these arguments. The problem of mental causation, and the basic idea and results of neuroprosthetics are reviewed. It is shown how appealing to the research on neuroprosthetics can be interpreted to give support to the idea of mental causation. However, it does so only in a rather deflationary sense: by holding the mental identical with the neural. So contrary to what the arguments have been assuming, neuroprosthetics cannot be used to argue for nonreductive physicalism. It can rather be taken to illustrate just the opposite: how the mental and the physical are identical.
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| Keywords: | Action control; Brain-computer interface; Causal exclusion; Difference-making; Interventionism; Multiple realisability | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Medicine Specific Sciences > Neuroscience Specific Sciences > Psychology General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Tuomas K. Pernu | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 14 Aug 2018 18:13 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2018 18:13 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 14936 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Synthese | ||||||
| Publisher: | Springer (Springer Science+Business Media B.V.) | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-0... | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Medicine Specific Sciences > Neuroscience Specific Sciences > Psychology General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Date: | 2018 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1573-0964 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14936 |
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