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A New Epiphenomenalism

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In chapter 5 we argued that although mental states are indeed inner causes apt to produce behavior, this is not all they are. Mental states have also, among their mental properties, phenomenal properties; and it was urged that awareness by phenomenal properties is incompatible with a purely materialist doctrine of the inner, mental causes of behavior.

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© 1970 Keith Campbell

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Campbell, K. (1970). A New Epiphenomenalism. In: Body and Mind. Problems of Philosophy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00678-6_6

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