14042 | The soul cannot be incorporeal, because then it could neither act nor be acted upon [Epicurus] |
20816 | A body is required for anything to have causal relations [Zeno of Citium, by Cicero] |
3941 | How can that which is unthinking be a cause of thought? [Berkeley] |
22100 | Experienced time means no two mental moments are ever alike [Bergson] |
6383 | Cause unites our picture of the universe; without it, mental and physical will separate [Davidson] |
6620 | Davidson sees identity as between events, not states, since they are related in causation [Davidson, by Lowe] |
3438 | Reductionists deny new causal powers at the higher level [Kim] |
3440 | Without reductionism, mental causation is baffling [Kim] |
7856 | It is absurd to think that physical effects are caused twice, so conscious causes must be physical [Papineau] |
4073 | Overdetermination occurs if two events cause an effect, when each would have caused it alone [Crane] |
7012 | If a car is a higher-level entity, distinct from its parts, how could it ever do anything? [Heil] |
4596 | The appeal of the identity theory is its simplicity, and its solution to the mental causation problem [Heil] |
2535 | The main argument for physicalism is its simple account of causation [Sturgeon] |