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    Mental Causation: The Mind-Body Problem.Anthony Dardis - 2008 - Columbia University Press.
    Two thousand years ago, Lucretius said that everything is atoms in the void; it's physics all the way down. Contemporary physicalism agrees. But if that's so how can we—how can our thoughts, emotions, our values—make anything happen in the physical world? This conceptual knot, the mental causation problem, is the core of the mind-body problem, closely connected to the problems of free will, consciousness, and intentionality. Anthony Dardis shows how to unravel the knot. He traces its early appearance in the (...)
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    Sunburn.Anthony Dardis - 1993 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (3):577-598.
    Causally committed properties are properties which require that their instances have a cause (or an effect) of a certain kind. Sunburn, for instance, must be caused by the sun. Causal relevance is a contingent dependency relation between properties of events. The connection between a causally committed property and the property to which it is committed is not contingent. Hence a pair consisting of a causally committed property and the property to which it is committed should not be in the causal (...)
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    Carnap and Quine on Explanationism in Ontology.Anthony Dardis - 2023 - Acta Analytica 39 (1):19-36.
    Let “explanationism” be the view that ontology is fundamentally an explanatory enterprise. What it does is “on a par” with natural science, as Quine put it. Carnap appears to offer a “lighter weight” alternative in “Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology”: ontology is concerned with semantics and language choice. This paper argues that Carnap’s account of the internal/external distinction is of less use than Carnap suggests for diagnosis of disputes in ontology. But he largely agrees with Quine about explanationism. I propose that (...)
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  4. Comment on Searle: Philosophy and the Empirical Study of Consciousness.Anthony Dardis - 1993 - Consciousness and Cognition 2 (4):320-333.
    I make three points about Searle’s philosophical work on consciousness and intentionality. First, I comment on Searle’s presentation and paper “The Problems of Consciousness.” I show that one of Searle’s philosophical claims about the relation between consciousness and intentionality appears to conflict with a demand he makes on acceptable empirical theories of the brain. Second, I argue that closer attention to the difference between conceptual connections and empirical connections corrects and improves Searle’s response to the so-called “Logical Connections” argument, the (...)
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    Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research.Anthony Dardis - 1995 - Metaphilosophy 26 (4):435-440.
    Book review of Bechtel and Richardson, Discovering Complexity (1993). Review suggests that one theme of the book -- that scientific reason is "constituted" in part by a cognitive strategy of finding complexity -- is not fully supported.
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    A “no causal rivalry” solution to the problem of mental causation.Anthony Dardis - 2002 - Acta Analytica 17 (1):69-77.
    Stephen Yablo has recently argued for a novel solution to the mental causation problem: the mental is related to the physical as determinables are related to determinates; determinables are not causal rivals with their determinates; so the mental and the physical are not causal rivals. Despite its attractions the suggestion seems hard to accept. In this paper I develop the idea that mental properties and physical properties are not causal rivals. Start with property dualism, supervenience, multiple realizability, and the claim (...)
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  7. A structure for mental causation.Anthony Dardis - 2009
    This paper suggests a structure that makes room for a class of solutions to the mental causation problem.
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  8. Four views on free will. By John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, and Manuel Vargas.Anthony Dardis - 2009 - Metaphilosophy 40 (1):147-153.
    Summary and brief critical evaluation of 4 views on free will (Kane, Fischer, Pereboom, Vargas).
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    How the Radically Interpreted Make Mistakes.Anthony Dardis - 1994 - Dialogue 33 (3):415-.
    Meaning involves normativity: a word has a meaning only if some of its uses are correct and some are incorrect. A full understanding of meaning demands an account of the normativity of meaning. One such account has it that the normativity of meaning stems from conventions for the use of words. Donald Davidson argues that communication does not require linguistic conventions. Ian Hacking has objected to Davidson's theory of meaning on the ground that Davidson is unable to allow for the (...)
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    Individualism and the new logical connections argument.Anthony Dardis - 2002 - Croatian Journal of Philosophy 2 (4):83-102.
    Jerry Fodor argues for individualism and for narrow content by way of rejecting an argument based on the conceptual connections between reason-properties and action-properties. In this paper I show that Fodor’s argument fails. He is right that there is a New Logical Connections Argument to be made, and that it does show that water thoughts and XYZ thoughts are not different causal powers with respect to intentional properties of behaviors. However, the New Logical Connections Argument also shows that they are (...)
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    Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology edited by David J.Chalmers, DavidManley, and RyanWasserman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009. Pp. 529. [REVIEW]Anthony Dardis - 2012 - Metaphilosophy 43 (4):513-522.
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    Hilary Bok, Freedom and Responsibility. [REVIEW]Anthony Dardis - 2001 - Philosophy in Review 21 (1):13-15.
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    Review of Kirk Ludwig, Donald Davidson[REVIEW]Anthony Dardis - 2004 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (3).
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