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date: 14 June 2025

neuroscience, the philosophical relevance of. 

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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Author(s):
Paul NoordhofPaul Noordhof

Neuroscience has philosophical relevance even if minds are distinct from brains or, as it is better to say, mental properties are distinct from neural properties. We would still need to look to neuroscience to determine whether mental events and properties had a causal influence upon neural events and thereby on the human body and behaviour. If neuroscientists were unable to find signs of causal influence, some form of ... ...

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