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- The situated interpretation of possessor-raising.MaryCatherineO'Connor -1996 - In Masayoshi Shibatani & Sandra A. Thompson,Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning. Clarendon Press.
- I remember therefore I am: Episodic memory retrieval and self-reported trait empathy judgments in young and older adults and individuals with medial temporal lobe excisions.Caspian Sawczak,Mary Pat McAndrews,Brendan BoO'Connor,Zoë Fowler &Morris Moscovitch -2022 -Cognition 225 (C):105124.
- Woman and cosmos.Catherine R.O'Connor -1971 - Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall.Export citation
Bookmark - In the Craftsman’s Garden: AI, Alan Turing, and Stanley Cavell.Marie Theresa O’Connor -2024 -Minds and Machines 34 (3):1-23.There is rising skepticism within public discourse about the nature of AI. By skepticism, I mean doubt about what we know about AI. At the same time, some AI speakers are raising the kinds of issues that usually really matter in analysis, such as issues relating to consent and coercion. This essay takes up the question of whether we should analyze a conversation differently because it is between a human and AI instead of between two humans and, if so, why. (...) When is it okay, for instance, to read the phrases “please stop” or “please respect my boundaries” as meaning something other than what those phrases ordinarily mean – and what makes it so? If we ignore denials of consent, or put them in scare quotes, we should have a good reason. This essay focuses on two thinkers, Alan Turing and Stanley Cavell, who in different ways answer the question of whether it matters that a speaker is a machine. It proposes that Cavell’s work on the problem of other minds, in particular Cavell’s story in The Claim of Reason of an automaton whom he imagines meeting in a craftsman’s garden, may be especially helpful in thinking about how to analyze what AI has to say. (shrink)
- Deliberative Discourse Idealized and Realized: Accountable Talk in the Classroom and in Civic Life.Sarah Michaels,Catherine O’Connor &Lauren B. Resnick -2007 -Studies in Philosophy and Education 27 (4):283-297.Classroom discussion practices that can lead to reasoned participation by all students are presented and described by the authors. Their research emphasizes the careful orchestration of talk and tasks in academic learning. Parallels are drawn to the philosophical work on deliberative discourse and the fundamental goal of equipping all students to participate in academically productive talk. These practices, termed Accountable TalkSM, emphasize the forms and norms of discourse that support and promote equity and access to rigorous academic learning. They have (...) been shown to result in academic achievement for diverse populations of students. The authors outline Accountable Talk as encompassing three broad dimensions: one, accountability to the learning community, in which participants listen to and build their contributions in response to those of others; two, accountability to accepted standards of reasoning, talk that emphasizes logical connections and the drawing of reasonable conclusions; and, three, accountability to knowledge, talk that is based explicitly on facts, written texts, or other public information. With more than fifteen years research into Accountable Talk applications across a wide range of classrooms and grade levels, the authors detail the challenges and limitations of contexts in which discourse norms are not shared by all members of the classroom community. (shrink)
- Can Less Ever Be More? A Model of Emotion Regulation Repertoire of Social Support (ERROSS).Eva-Maria Stelzer &Mary-Frances O’Connor -2021 -Emotion Review 13 (2):125-138.Do people really fare better if they can rely on many social ties? Research suggests that benefits of interpersonal emotion regulation (ER) can be derived from both large and small social networks. Building on the intrapersonal regulatory flexibility model, we propose the emotion regulation repertoire of social support (ERROSS) model that views effective socioemotional support as the combination of network size and ER strategies, resulting in a repertoire of ER resources one can draw on. Best outcomes in mental health should (...) follow from both a large network and a diverse repertoire of strategies. ERROSS is applied as an example in the context of bereavement, and specific contributions of the model are highlighted. (shrink)
- Broadening the definition of resilience and “reappraising” the use of appetitive motivation.Melissa Soenke,Mary-FrancesO'Connor &Jeff Greenberg -2015 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 38.
- Prolonged Grief Disorder and the Cultural Crisis.Eva-Maria Stelzer,Ningning Zhou,Andreas Maercker,Mary-Frances O’Connor &Clare Killikelly -2020 -Frontiers in Psychology 10.
- Law Week Launch.Michael Blyth,Andrew Cunich,Christine Lowe,Ben Caddaye,Bill Redpath,Elenore Eriksson,A. C. T. Women Lawyers Dinner,Mary O’Connor,Sonia Hay &President Bill Redpath Contemplating Ethos -forthcoming -Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.
- Mary Roach. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. 303 pp., illus., bibl. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003. $23.95.ErinO'connor -2004 -Isis 95 (1):105-106.
- Understanding and overcoming the barriers of implementing patient decision aids in clinical practice.Siobhan O'Donnell,Ann Cranney,Mary J. Jacobsen,Ian D. Graham,Annette M.O'Connor &Peter Tugwell -2006 -Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 12 (2):174-181.
- Lavasseur, Jean-Marie, Le Lieu Théologique, Histoire. [REVIEW]J. O’Connor -1965 -Augustinianum 5 (3):545-546.
- Books briefly noted.James L. Hyland,Teresa Iglesias,Peter J. King,Ciaran McGlynn,Jaime Nubiola,BrianO'Connor,Patrick Gorevan,Rachel Vaughan &Máire O'Neill -1994 -International Journal of Philosophical Studies 2 (1):173-179.Political Freedom By George G. Brenkert Routledge, 1991. Pp. 278. ISBN 0–415–03372–1. £35 hbk.Wittgenstein: A Bibliographical Guide By Guido Frongia and Brian McGuinness Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. x + 438. ISBN 00631–13765–3. £60.00.Metaphysics By Peter van Inwagen Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii + 222. ISBN 0–19–8751400. £11.95 pbk.The Nature of Moral Thinking By Francis Snare Routledge, 1992. Pp. 187. ISBN 0–415–04709–9. £9.99 pbk.Filosofía analitica hoy: Encuentro de tradiciones Edited by Mercedes Torrevejano Servicio de Publications Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, (...) 1991. Pp. 284. ISBN 84–7191–722‐X. $15.5 pbk.The Puzzle of Experience By J.J. Valberg Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp. 227. ISBN 0–19–824291–3. £25.Religion and Philosophy Edited by Martin Warner Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement: 31 Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. vi + 155. ISBN 0–521–42951‐X. £10.95 pbk.The Uses of Philosophy ByMary Warnock Blackwell, 1992. Pp. 256. ISBN 0–631–18038–9. £35.00 hbk. £11.95 pbk.The Disappearance of Time: Kurt Godel and the Idealistic Tradition in Philosophy By Palle Yourgrau Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. x + 182. ISBN 0–521–41012–6. £27.50. (shrink)No categories
- Questioning identities: philosophy in psychoanalytic practice.Mary Lynne Ellis -2010 - London: Karnac. Edited by Noreen O'Connor.In this new book,Mary Lynne Ellis and Noreen O'Connor move to the heart of 21st century intertwining of psychoanalytical and philosophical critical reflections ...
- At Law: Precatory Prediction and Mindless Mimicry: The Case ofMaryO'Connor.George J. Annas -1988 -Hastings Center Report 18 (6):31.
- Higher Education and the Color Line: College Access, Racial Equity, and Social Change.Gary Orfield,Patricia Marín &Catherine L. Horn (eds.) -2005 - Harvard Education Press._Higher Education and the Color Line_ examines the role of higher education in opening up equal opportunity for mobility in American society--or in reinforcing the segregation between white and nonwhite America. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision upholding affirmative action, this comprehensive and timely book outlines the agenda for achieving racial justice in higher education in the next generation. Weaving together current research and a discussion of overarching demographic, legal, and political issues, the book focuses on (...) the racial transformation of higher education and the structural barriers that perpetuate racial stratification at the postsecondary level. _Higher Education and the Color Line_ includes chapters that outline the demographic changes in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary school enrollment; the evolving role of law and policy; the barriers faced by minority college students; and the kinds of programs that best serve them. Topics addressed include financial aid; the role of community colleges; nontraditional paths to postsecondary education; and the role of higher education in social and economic mobility. In addition to providing a thorough and up-to-date assessment of the state of racial integration in higher education, the book goes beyond the usual black-and-white analysis to provide a multiethnic perspective supported by extensive new data. Taken together, these discussions examine the role of higher education in opening up equal opportunity for mobility in American society--or in reinforcing the segregation between white and nonwhite America. It provides insight for how institutions, states, and the country should be thinking about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s hope that affirmative action will no longer be needed in 25 years. (shrink)
- Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader.Wayne C. Booth,Dudley Barlow,Orson Scott Card,Anthony Cunningham,John Gardner,Marshall Gregory,John J. Han,Jack Harrell,Richard E. Hart,Barbara A. Heavilin,Marianne Jennings,Charles Johnson,Bernard Malamud,Toni Morrison,Georgia A. Newman,Joyce Carol Oates,Jay Parini,David Parker,James Phelan,Richard A. Posner,Mary R. Reichardt,Nina Rosenstand,Stephen L. Tanner,John Updike,John H. Wallace,Abraham B. Yehoshua &Bruce Young (eds.) -2005 - Sheed & Ward.Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine and confront the ultimate questions of life? Do the human activities of storytelling and complex moral decision-making have a deep connection? What are the moral responsibilities of the artist, critic, and reader? What can religious perspectives—from Catholic to Protestant to Mormon—contribute to literary criticism? Thirty well known contributors reflect on these questions, including iterary theorists Marshall Gregory, James Phelan, (...) and Wayne Booth; philosophers Martha Nussbaum, Richard Hart, and Nina Rosenstand; and authors John Updike, Charles Johnson, FlanneryO'Connor, and Bernard Malamud. Divided into four sections, with introductory matter and questions for discussion, this accessible anthology represents the most crucial work today exploring the interdisciplinary connections between literature, religion and philosophy. (shrink)
- Letter from Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor.Cormac Murphy-O’Connor -2003 -The Chesterton Review 29 (3):410-411.No categories
- FlanneryO'Connor Meets Russell Kirk.FlanneryO'Connor -2007 -The Chesterton Review 33 (1/2):335-337.No categories
- Persons and Causes: The Metaphysics of Free Will.TimothyO'Connor -2000 - New York, US: Oxford University Press USA.This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided "agent" causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics.O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reductionism v. emergence will specially interest metaphysicians and philosophers of mind.
- Logical foundations: essays in honor of D.J.O'Connor.Daniel JohnO'Connor,Indira Mahalingam &Brian Carr (eds.) -1991 - New York: St. Martin's Press.
- Catherine Marie O'Sullivan, Hospitality in Medieval Ireland, 900–1500. Dublin and Portland, Oreg.: Four Courts Press, 2004. Pp. 272; 5 black-and-white figures. $55. [REVIEW]Michael Richter -2006 -Speculum 81 (3):900-901.
- External Preferences and Liberal Equality: P. M.O'Connor.P. M.O'Connor -1994 -Utilitas 6 (1):117-133.
- Free will.TimothyO'Connor &Christopher Evan Franklin -2018 -Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.“Free Will” is a philosophical term of art for a particular sort of capacity of rational agents to choose a course of action from among various alternatives. Which sort is the free will sort is what all the fuss is about. (And what a fuss it has been: philosophers have debated this question for over two millenia, and just about every major philosopher has had something to say about it.) Most philosophers suppose that the concept of free will is very (...) closely connected to the concept of moral responsibility. Acting with free will, on such views, is just to satisfy the metaphysical requirement on being responsible for one's action. (Clearly, there will also be epistemic conditions on responsibility as well, such as being aware—or failing that, being culpably unaware—of relevant alternatives to one's action and of the alternatives' moral significance.) But the significance of free will is not exhausted by its connection to moral responsibility. Free will also appears to be a condition on desert for one's accomplishments (why sustained effort and creative work are praiseworthy); on the autonomy and dignity of persons; and on the value we accord to love and friendship. (See Kane 1996, 81ff. and Clarke 2003, Ch.1.). (shrink)
- (2 other versions)Line Drawings: Defining Women through Feminist Practice.PegO'Connor -2005 -Hypatia 20 (1):209-212.
- Emergent properties.TimothyO'Connor -1994 -American Philosophical Quarterly 31 (2):91-104.All organised bodies are composed of parts, similar to those composing inorganic nature, and which have even themselves existed in an inorganic state; but the phenomena of life, which result from the juxtaposition of those parts in a certain manner, bear no analogy to any of the effects which would be produced by the action of the component substances considered as mere physical agents. To whatever degree we might imagine our knowledge of the properties of the several ingredients of a (...) living body to be extended and perfected, it is certain that no mere summing up of the separate actions of those elements will ever amount to the action of the living body itself. (shrink)
- BrianO'Connor, Adorno's Negative Dialectic: Philosophy and the Possibility of Critical Rationality. [REVIEW]PatrickO'Connor -2006 -Philosophy in Review 26 (2):114-116.Export citation Bookmark
- The Human God and Lonergan's Macroeconomic Dynamics.Paul Hoyt-O'Connor -2009 -Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 12 (2):94-124.
- (1 other version)Implementing Inclusive Education. A Commonwealth Guide to Implementing Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.UnaO'Connor Bones -2013 -British Journal of Educational Studies 61 (1):133-135.
- Theism and Ultimate Explanation.Timothy O’Connor -2010 -Philosophia Christi 12 (2):265-272.Twentieth-century analytic philosophy was dominated by positivist antimetaphysics and neo-Humean deflationary metaphysics, and the nature of explanation was reconceived in order to fit these agendas. Unsurprisingly, the explanatory value of theist was widely discredited. I argue that the long-overdue revival of moralized, broadly neo-Aristotelian metaphysics and an improved perspective on modal knowledge dramatically changes the landscape. In this enriched context, there is no sharp divide between physics and metaphysics, and the natural end of the theoretician’s quest for a unified explanation (...) of the universe is God, an absolutely necessary, transcendent, and personal source of all contingent reality. (shrink)
- The metaphysics of emergence.TimothyO'Connor -2005 -Noûs 39 (4):658-678.The objective probability of every physical event is fixed by prior physical events and laws alone. (This thesis is sometimes expressed in terms of explanation: In tracing the causal history of any physical event, one need not advert to any non-physical events or laws. To the extent that there is any explanation available for a physical event, there is a complete explanation available couched entirely in physical vocabulary. We prefer the probability formulation, as it should be acceptable to any physicalist, (...) though some reject the explanation formulation.) (3) Causal Exclusion. (shrink)
- Climates of Tragedy.William vanO'Connor -1943 -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 2 (8):103.
- Lonergan and Bellah.Paul E. Hoyt-O’Connor -1994 -Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 68:259-270.No categories
- Agents, Causes, and Events: Essays on Indeterminism and Free Will.TimothyO'Connor (ed.) -1995 - New York: Oxford University Press.Many philosophers are persuaded by familiar arguments that free will is incompatible with causal determinism. Yet, notoriously, past attempts to articulate how the right type of indeterminism might secure the capacity for autonomous action have generally been regarded as either demonstrably inadequate or irremediably obscure. This volume gathers together the most significant recent discussions concerning the prospects for devising a satisfactory indeterministic account of freedom of action. These essays give greater precision to traditional formulations of the problems associated with indeterministic (...) accounts and to the range of theoretical avenues for pursuing resolutions. The first four essays set out different challenges (from both compatibilists and those skeptical of the possibility of free will) to the adequacy of standard indeterministic theories. The next seven essays meet one or more of these challenges. Each of the fundamental types of approach--simple indeterminism, causal indeterminism, and agent causation--is represented in these novel and sophisticated proposals. The collection finishes with two essays that debate whether compatibilism entails that freedom of choice is a comparatively rare phenomenon within an individual's life. Eloquently presenting some of the most compelling and accessible arguments surrounding this central philosophical issue, Agents, Causes, and Events makes a valuable contribution to courses in free will/action theory and metaphysics. (shrink)
- (1 other version)Virtue and the Practice of Medicine.Paul Hoyt-O’Connor -1998 -The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 4:56-63.Since Alasdair MacIntyre’s landmark book After Virtue, there has been renewed interest in the role of the virtues in the moral life and attention paid to reappropriating the Aristotelian notion of "practice." Recent reappropriations of the virtues and virtue theory in medical ethics have contributed to conceiving more adequately the nature of good medicine. I wish to explore some of these insights and the special relevance the notion of practice has in an account of good medicine. Yet, I also want (...) to suggest that much remains to be done. This renewed attention to the virtues needs to be supplemented by a similar reappropriation and transposition of the notion of nature in order to navigate successfully the Dardanelles of an ahistorical essentialism and the Bosphorus of a historical relativism. (shrink)No categories
- Agent-causal power.TimothyO'Connor -2009 - In Toby Handfield,Dispositions and causes. New York : Oxford University Press,: Clarendon Press ;.In what follows, I shall presuppose the ecumenical core of the causal powers metaphysics. The argument of this paper concerns what may appear at first to be a wholly unrelated matter, the metaphysics of free will. However, an adequate account of freedom requires, in my judgment, a notion of a distinctive variety of causal power, one which tradition dubs ‘agent-causal power’. I will first develop this notion and clarify its relationship to other notions. I will then respond to a number (...) of objections either to the possibility of a power so explicated or to its sufficiency for grounding an adequate account of human freedom. (shrink)
- The Social and Contextual Nature of Emotion: An Evolutionary Perspective.Lynn E.O'Connor &Jack W. Berry -2018 - In David Sloan Wilson, Steven C. Hayes & Anthony Biglan,Evolution & contextual behavioral science: an integrated framework for understanding, predicting, & influencing human behavior. Oakland, Calif.: Context Press, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications.Export citation Bookmark
- A Greek Thomist: Providence in Gennadios Scholarios, by Matthew C. Briel.MaryCatherine Sommers -2021 -The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 21 (4):721-723.No categories
- Flannery O’Connor on the Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South.FlanneryO'Connor -2009 -The Chesterton Review 35 (3/4):730-740.No categories
- Education and the Philosophic Mind. Edited by A. V. Judges. (George Harrap and Co. Ltd. Pp. 205. 8s. 6d.).D. J.O'connor -1959 -Philosophy 34 (128):87-.
- Theism and Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency.TimothyO'Connor -2008 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.An expansive, yet succinct, analysis of the Philosophy of Religion – from metaphysics through theology. Organized into two sections, the text first examines truths concerning what is possible and what is necessary. These chapters lay the foundation for the book’s second part – the search for a metaphysical framework that permits the possibility of an ultimate explanation that is correct and complete. A cutting-edge scholarly work which engages with the traditional metaphysician’s quest for a true ultimate explanation of the most (...) general features of the world we inhabit Develops an original view concerning the epistemology and metaphysics of modality, or truths concerning what is possible or necessary Applies this framework to a re-examination of the cosmological argument for theism Defends a novel version of the Leibnizian cosmological argument. (shrink)
- After Deely: If I walk the “way of signs,” where am I going?MaryCatherine Sommers -2010 -Semiotica 2010 (179):133-143.
- Freedom With a Human Face.TimothyO'Connor -2005 -Midwest Studies in Philosophy 29 (1):207-227.As good a definition as any of a _philosophical_ conundrum is a problem all of whose possible solutions are unsatisfactory. The problem of understanding the springs of action for morally responsible agents is commonly recognized to be such a problem. The origin, nature, and explanation of freely-willed actions puzzle us today as they did the ancients Greeks, and for much the same reasons. However, one can carry this ‘perennial-puzzle’ sentiment too far. The unsatisfactory nature of philosophical theories is a more (...) or less matter, and some of them have admitted of improvement over time. This, at any rate, is what we self-selecting metaphysicians tend to suppose, and I will pursue that high calling by suggesting a few improvements to a theory of metaphysical freedom, or freedom of the will. (shrink)
- An introduction to the philosophy of education.Daniel JohnO'Connor -1966 - London,: Routledge and Kegan Paul.This work aims to clarify the nature of the philosophy of education, intending to indicate both the limits and the uses of philosophical criticism of educational aims and concepts. It is based upon the fact that education is a subject full of unexamined presumptions.
- Imaging the Contemplative Life in Thomas Aquinas.MaryCatherine Sommers -2001 -Semiotics:40-53.
- Emergent individuals.TimothyO'Connor &Jonathan D. Jacobs -2003 -Philosophical Quarterly 53 (213):540-555.We explain the thesis that human mental states are ontologically emergent aspects of a fundamentally biological organism. We then explore the consequences of this thesis for the identity of a human person over time. As these consequences are not obviously independent of one's general ontology of objects and their properties, we consider four such accounts: transcendent universals, kind-Aristotelianism, immanent universals, and tropes. We suggest there are reasons for emergentists to favor the latter two accounts. We then argue that within such (...) ontologies, emergentism about properties pushes one to the stronger claim that there are emergent individuals, though not individuals which are dual to person's bodies—substance emergentism, but not substance dualism. (shrink)
- The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread.CailinO'Connor &James Owen Weatherall -2019 - New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press."Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O’Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what’s essential to understanding the spread and persistence of false belief. It might seem that there’s an obvious reason that true beliefs matter: false beliefs will hurt you. But if that’s right, then why is it irrelevant to many (...) people whether they believe true things or not? In an age riven by "fake news," "alternative facts," and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, the authors argue that social factors, not individual psychology, are what’s essential to understanding the persistence of false belief and that we must know how those social forces work in order to fight misinformation effectively."–Publisher’s description. (shrink)
- Phenomenology and Art.RobertO'Connor -1975 -Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 36 (2):268-269.
- (1 other version)Adorno.BrianO'Connor -2005 - New York: Routledge.Theodor W. Adorno was one of the foremost philosophers and social theorists of the post-war period. Crucial to the development of Critical Theory, his highly original and distinctive but often difficult writings not only advance questions of fundamental philosophical significance, but provide deep-reaching analyses of literature, art, music sociology and political theory. In this comprehensive introduction, Brian O’Connor explains Adorno’s philosophy for those coming to his work for the first time, through original new lines of interpretation. Beginning with an overview (...) of Adorno’s life and key philosophical views and influences, which contextualizes the intellectual environment in which he worked, O’Connor assesses the central elements of Adorno’s philosophy. He carefully examines Adorno’s distinctive style of analysis and shows how much of his work is a critical response to the various forms of identity thinking that have underpinned the destructive forces of modernity. He goes on to discuss the main areas of Adorno’s philosophy: social theory, the philosophy of experience, metaphysics, morality and aesthetics; setting out detailed accounts of Adorno’s notions of the dialectic of Enlightenment, reification, totality, mediation, identity, nonidentity, experience, negative dialectics, immanence, freedom, autonomy, imitation and autonomy in art. The final chapter considers Adorno’s philosophical legacy and importance today. Including a chronology, glossary, chapter summaries, and suggestions for further reading, _Adorno_ is an ideal introduction to this demanding but important thinker, and essential reading for students of philosophy, literature, sociology and cultural studies. (shrink)
- (1 other version)Causality, mind, and free will.TimothyO'Connor -2000 -Noûs 34 (s14):105-117.One familiar affirmative answer to this question holds that these facts suffice to entail that Descartes' picture of the human mind must be mistaken. On Descartes' view, our mind or soul (the only essential part of ourselves) has no spatial location. Yet it directly interacts with but one physical object, the brain of that body with which it is, 'as it were, intermingled,' so as to 'form one unit.' The radical disparity posited between a nonspatial mind, whose intentional and conscious (...) properties are had by no physical object, and a spatial body, all of whose properties are had by no mind, has prompted some to conclude that, pace Descartes, causal interaction between the two is impossible. Jaegwon Kim has recently given a new twist to this old line of thought.(1) In the present essay, I will use Kim's argument as a springboard for motivating my own favored picture of the metaphysics of mind and body and then discussing how an often vilified account of freedom of the will may be realized within it. (shrink)
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