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Problem of mental causation
Overview
Conceptual issue in the philosophy of mind
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It is quite impossible for us _a priori_ to vindicate, as capable of assumption, such a concept according to its objective reality. It remains therefore a proposition absolutely resting upon subjective conditions alone, viz. of the Judgement reflecting in conformity with our cognitive faculties. If we expressed this proposition dogmatically as objectively valid, it would be: “There is a God.” But for us men there is…
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement
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Thus the psychological idea of the ego, when employed as a constitutive principle for the explanation of the phenomena of the soul, and for the extension of our knowledge regarding this subject beyond the limits of experience—even to the condition of the soul after death—is convenient enough for the purposes of pure reason, but detrimental and even ruinous to its interests in the sphere of nature and experience. The…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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I, p. 34). And finally: "I have maintained throughout my work that logic cannot derive any serious advantage from a discussion of _the conditions under which thought as a psychological process comes about_. The significance of logical forms ... is to be found in the utterances of thought, the laws which it imposes, after or during the act of thinking, not in the conditions which lie back of and which produce…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
Close in meaning to Problem of mental causation; the term itself is not named.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.
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