Pleasure's role in evolution: A response to Robinson
Journal of Consciousness Studies 15 (7):78-86 (2008)
| Abstract | In this paper, I reconstruct and sketch an evolutionary argument against epiphenomenalism in the spirit of William James'. This version of the argument is more charitable to James than the one attributed to him in William Robinson's recent article 'Evolution and Epiphenomenalism' and here I show how it bypasses Robinson's criticisms. | |||||||||
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