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A DOUBLE FACE VIEW ON MIND-BRAIN RELATIONSHIP: THE PROBLEM OF MENTAL CAUSATION

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dc.creator COELHO, Jonas Gonçalves
dc.date 2017-08-15
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-21T18:08:03Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-21T18:08:03Z
dc.identifier https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/7227
dc.identifier 10.1590/S0101-31732017000300011
dc.identifier.uri http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/73641
dc.description Interpreting results of contemporary neuroscientif studies, I present a non-reductive physicalist account of mind-brain relationship from which the criticism of unintelligibility ascribed to the notion of mental causation is considered. Assuming that a paradigmatic criticism addressed to the notion of mental causation is that presented by Jaegwon Kim’s analysis on the theory of mind-body supervenience, I present his argument arguing that it encompasses a formulation of the problem of mental causation, which leads to difficulties by him pointed. To ask “how mental events, being a nonphysical property of the brain, could act causally on brain structure and functioning?”, is not to treat the mind as a property of the brain, but as a Cartesian substance. I argue that, rather than asking “how does mind could act causally on the brain?”, as if the mind were something apart and independent of the brain, it would be more in line with a non-reductive physicalist view to ask “how the brain, guided by its mind, could act causally on itself?”. To justify this last formulation of the problem of mental causation, I propose a “double face view”, which consists in considering the consciousness as the essential property of the mind, and mind and brain as inseparable, dependent and irreducible faces. It means, in general terms, that the conscious mind is the result of brain structure and activity – “conscious mind as brain” - and that the brain, using its conscious mind as a guide to its actions, interacts with its body, and with the physical and sociocultural environment, constructing and being constructed by both – “brain as conscious mind”. pt-BR
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dc.language por
dc.publisher Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências pt-BR
dc.relation https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/7227/4610
dc.rights Copyright (c) 2017 TRANS/FORM/AÇÃO: Revista de Filosofia pt-BR
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 pt-BR
dc.source TRANS/FORM/AÇÃO: Revista de Filosofia; Vol. 40 No. 3: July-September/2017; 197-220 en-US
dc.source TRANS/FORM/AÇÃO: Revista de Filosofia; v. 40 n. 3: Julho-Setembro/2017; 197-220 pt-BR
dc.source 1980-539X
dc.source 0101-3173
dc.subject Double face view pt-BR
dc.subject Conscious mind pt-BR
dc.subject Mental causation pt-BR
dc.subject Mind-brain relationship pt-BR
dc.subject Supervenience pt-BR
dc.subject Jaegwon Kim pt-BR
dc.title A DOUBLE FACE VIEW ON MIND-BRAIN RELATIONSHIP: THE PROBLEM OF MENTAL CAUSATION pt-BR
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


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