Concept
Epiphenomenalism
Overview
theory that mental events are caused by physical events and do not cause physical events themselves
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Philosophers who discussed Epiphenomenalism
Related ideas
- Gilbert Ryle
- Automata theory
- Fear
- Animal
- Mind–body problem
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Cartesianism
- Fictionalism
- Consciousness Explained
- John Eccles (neurophysiologist)
- Karl Popper
- Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis
- Mind–body dualism
- Philosophical theory
- George Santayana
- Mental event
- Functionalism (philosophy of mind)
- Monism
- Materialism
- Frank Cameron Jackson
- Mental state
- Qualia
- Nervous system
- Cognitive revolution
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Automata theory
- British Science Association
- Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis
- Thought
- Benjamin Libet
- Biochemistry
- Daniel Wegner
- Adrenaline
- Input/output
- Keith Campbell (philosopher)
- Shadworth Hodgson
- Bereitschaftspotential
- Universal Turing machine
- By-product
- Adina L. Roskies
- Donald Symons
- Function (computer programming)
- Stress hormone
- High-level programming language
- Peter Ulric Tse