Esfeld, Michael (2021) Super-Humeanism and mental causation. [Preprint]
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Abstract
The stance that has become known as Super-Humeanism is a minimal ontology of the natural world in the spirit of scientific realism. The paper enquires to what extent this ontology, due to its parsimony, can be employed to remove commitments from the scientific image that are the source of the clash with the view of ourselves as persons (the manifest image). The paper argues that Super-Humeanism provides the conceptual space to accommodate persons as irreducible to matter in motion, attribute to them free will (even in the libertarian sense) and recognize their volitions as causing some of their behaviour without coming into conflict with science.
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Keywords: | free will, Humeanism, libertarianism, manifest image, mental causation, persons, scientific image, Super-Humeanism | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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Depositing User: | Michael Esfeld | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2021 00:34 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 10 Aug 2021 00:34 | ||||||
Item ID: | 19425 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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Date: | 8 August 2021 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19425 |
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