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Epiphenomenalism: Dead End or Way Out?

Many philosophers take it for granted that epiphenomenalism is obviously a dead end for an understanding of the human mind and its relation to the physical world and nothing but a counterintuitive theory of last resort. Others, by contrast, think that epiphenomenalism might be the way out of some of the severest problems discussed in the philosophy of mind during the past decades. Traditionally...

Political Science and Beyond: Presidential Address to the American Political Science Association

This is the Presidential Address delivered at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 30 to September 2, 2007.The theme is that the discipline of political science has benefited from imports from many other fields, but it also has a lot to offer in the way of exports to other fields. A personal example is the export of cooperation theory to cancer research...

Women and Mental Health*

Honorable delegates and guests from India and abroad, fellows and members of the Indian Psychiatric Society and dear friends, I am indeed honored by the trust that you have reposed in me for ha\nng elected me to this highest office of the Indian Psychiatric Society. It is with a great sense of responsibility that I assume charge of this office of the apex body of Mental Health Professionals in ...

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How to study consciousness scientifically 1

The neurosciences have now advanced to the point that we can address — and perhaps, in the long run, even solve — the problem of consciousness as a scientific problem like any other. However there are a number of philosophical obstacles to this project. The aim of this article is to address and try to overcome some of those obstacles. Because the problem of giving an adequate account of conscio...