The article analyzes David Dubrovsky’s approach to informational causation in comparison with research on mental causation in the analytic philosophy of mind. Central to this analysis is the question of whether consciousness and mental properties can serve as causes of physical events. Building on Dubrovsky’s premise that his conceptual framework is commensurable with the terminology of...
When trying to give a universal definition to the term “neurophilosophy,” difficulties arise, since each researcher who identifies himself as a member of this field sets his own definition. The common thing for the work of “neurophilosophers” can be described as an interdisciplinary approach, which takes into account the achievements in the field of consciousness research of both philosophical...