Journal article
William James’s Objection to Epiphenomenalism
Abstract
James developed an evolutionary objection to epiphenomenalism that is still discussed today. Epiphenomenalists have offered responses that do not grasp its full depth. I thus offer a new reading and assessment of James’s objection. Our life-essential, phenomenal pleasures and pains have three features that suggest that they were shaped by selection, according to James: they are natively patterned, those patterns are systematically linked with …
Authors
Klein A
Journal
Philosophy of Science, Vol. 86, No. 5, pp. 1179–1190
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date
12 2019
DOI
10.1086/705477
ISSN
0031-8248