A causal argument for dualism

Saad, Bradford

doi:10.1007/s11098-017-0969-3

Philos Stud

2017

DOI: 10.1007/s11098-017-0969-3

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A causal argument for dualism

Bradford Saad

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“… 29 I myself think this constraint is empirically unwarranted and I have argued that standard appeals to the causal closure of the physical to motivate rivals to interactionist dualism are misguided for other reasons (Saad, 2018 , 2020b ). But I agree that those views are committed to respecting the causal closure of the physical.…”

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Harmony in a panpsychist world

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2022

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Experiences tend to be followed by states for which they provide normative reasons. Such harmonious correlations cry out for explanation. Theories that answer or diminish these cries thereby achieve an advantage over theories that do neither. I argue that the main lines of response to these cries that are available to biological theorists—theorists who hold (roughly) that conscious subjects are generally biological entities—are problematic. And I argue that panpsychism—which holds (roughly) that conscious subjects are ubiquitous in nature—provides an attractive response to these explanatory cries. Taken together, these considerations underwrite a kind of ‘psychophysical fine-tuning’ argument in support of panpsychism, one that is reminiscent of cosmological fine-tuning arguments in favor of multiverse hypotheses.

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“…see Bennett 2003Bennett , 2008. But there are (compelling, to my mind) reasons to doubt that such strategies succeed; see Bernstein (2016), Morris (2015) and Saad (2017) for criticisms of some such strategies.…”

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Should Reductive Physicalists Reject the Causal Argument?

Saad

2017

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Reductive physicalists typically accept the causal argument for their view. On this score, Tiehen (2015) parts ways with his fellow reductive physicalists. Heretically, he argues that reductive physicalists should reject the causal argument. After presenting Tiehen's challenge, I defend the orthodoxy. Although not myself a reductive physicalist, I show how reductive physicalists can resist this challenge to the causal argument. I conclude with a positive suggestion about how reductive physicalists should use the causal argument.

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Two solutions to the neural discernment problem

Saad

2019

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A causal argument for dualism

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Harmony in a panpsychist world

Should Reductive Physicalists Reject the Causal Argument?

Two solutions to the neural discernment problem

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