11. Information Science Topic: Consciousness
about human agency and
causation, a particular commitment on the nature of consciousness does not
directly affect my discussion of agency. With or without an additional
immaterial mind, I believe that a purely physicalist account of agency
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12. Divine Action Topic: Murphy, Nancey. Supervenience and the Downward Ef...
ingredient in downward
causation, Arthur Peacocke , in his essay in this volume, assimilates it to
whole-part influence).
Murphy then turns to the
issue of mental causation: How do reasons
get their grip on the causal
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13. Ecology Topic: Conclusion
a
concept of the downward causation of the mental in order to reconcile the
notion of mental causation and free will with neurobiological causation. But I stop here and I have saved you 20
minutes to ask me questions.
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14. Neuroscience Topic: Conclusion
a concept of the downward causation of the mental in order to reconcile the notion of mental causation and free will with neurobiological causation.But I stop here and I have saved you 20 minutes to ask me questions.
Topic
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15. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: God of the Gaps
the system of causation, at another
level not susceptible to physical description. This goes back to Thomas Aquinas
and his discussion of primary and secondary causation.
In the light of these safe
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16. Divine Action Topic: Meyering, Theo C. Mind Matters: Physicalism and t...
(true, downward) mental
causation implies nonreducibility [as Stoeger and Murphy argue] and physicalism
implies the converse, it is hard to see how these two views could be
compatible. Meyering distinguishes three versions of
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17. Evolution Topic: Step 2: Stir and bake until the world comes to its end
the
present from past causation; and this frees the present for newness in the
future. God is unceasing in serving the world in this manner.
By God imparting the quality of openness to the future, God makes room for
the distinction
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18. Neuroscience Topic: The Physicalist Thesis
above that the main issue is causation. To say that the mental level of functioning is not reducible is to say that a complete causal account of what goes on in the world has to take it into account.
Now it may be difficult, surprisingly so, to
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19. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: Neo-Thomist Views of Divine Action
divine causation differs from any
other kind - we should not expect to be able to characterise it within our own
terms
we have no pure-secondary causes to
look at - everything is informed by divine
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20. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: Peacockes View of Divine Action
of top-down causation we know about are
all analysable in bottom-up terms. Top-down causation is a purely explanatory procedure, it is a bold strategy to
invoke it for ontological purposes, and to suppose that a
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