Papers by Wilson Mendonça
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, Oct 5, 2023
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Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2002
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Abstracta, Dec 1, 2004
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O Que nos faz pensar, Apr 1, 1991
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Abstracta, Sep 1, 2007
In Experience and Nature Dewey makes “an attempt to contribute to what has come to be called an ‘... more In Experience and Nature Dewey makes “an attempt to contribute to what has come to be called an ‘emergent’ theory of mind”. On a first approach, that doesn’t look very innovative to our contemporary materialist convictions. Indeed, Kim argues persuasively that a central claim of emergentism—concerning the irreducibility of emergent properties—is irremediably at odds with a view of mental causation that follows from some very plausible physicalist assumptions. This is “the problem of downward causation.” I intend to show that Dewey’s brand of emergentism actually allows an adequate reply to the very important worry formulated by Kim.
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Veritas, Apr 25, 2016
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Filosofia Unisinos, Dec 13, 2017
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Facta Philosophica, 2002
... André Fuhrmann. FG Philosophie. Universität Konstanz. 784534 Konstanz, Germany.andre.fuhrmann... more ... André Fuhrmann. FG Philosophie. Universität Konstanz. 784534 Konstanz, Germany.andre.fuhrmann@uni-konstanz.de. Wilson P. Mendonça. Instituto da Filosofia e Ciências Sociais. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Largo de São Francisco de Paula, 1. ...
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Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, Aug 5, 2011
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Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2007
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Manuscrito, 2002
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Trans/Form/Ação
Resumo: De acordo com uma abordagem proeminente na semântica formal contemporânea, a verdade das ... more Resumo: De acordo com uma abordagem proeminente na semântica formal contemporânea, a verdade das asserções morais depende de uma perspectiva normativa sobre os fatos do mundo. A implementação dessa abordagem, conhecida como contextualismo indexical, trata a dependência da verdade moral vis-à-vis a perspectiva moral correspondente em analogia com a dependência contextual característica de sentenças contendo termos indexicais. Alternativamente, a perspectiva moral é vista como configurando as circunstâncias de avaliação nas quais o conteúdo expresso pela ocorrência de uma sentença moral é avaliado como verdadeiro ou falso. A versão moderada dessa visão alternativa (o contextualismo não indexical ou relativismo moderado) considera que a verdade da ocorrência de uma sentença moral em um contexto de uso é determinada pela avaliação do seu conteúdo na “circunstância do contexto”: a circunstância de avaliação representada pelo mesmo conjunto indexado que representa o contexto de uso. A ver...
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Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, Jul 19, 2012
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Abstracta, Sep 1, 2007
In Experience and Nature Dewey makes “an attempt to contribute to what has come to be called an ‘... more In Experience and Nature Dewey makes “an attempt to contribute to what has come to be called an ‘emergent’ theory of mind”. On a first approach, that doesn’t look very innovative to our contemporary materialist convictions. Indeed, Kim argues persuasively that a central claim of emergentism—concerning the irreducibility of emergent properties—is irremediably at odds with a view of mental causation that follows from some very plausible physicalist assumptions. This is “the problem of downward causation.” I intend to show that Dewey’s brand of emergentism actually allows an adequate reply to the very important worry formulated by Kim.
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Manuscrito Revista Internacional De Filosofia, 1989
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The paper argues against the current view according to which there is a clear dichotomy between c... more The paper argues against the current view according to which there is a clear dichotomy between causation and explanation. The first is usually conceived as an extensional relation connecting particulars individuated non-intentionally, while the second would concern only rational, intensional links between true propositions (facts). Close examination of the particularistic strategy employed to account for the way causal explanation depends ontologically on causation shows that it fails in at least two cases: (i) explanations involving negative facts and (ii) explanations by stative predications. This also reveals that the usual assumption of token-states as a new type of particular causes designated by the nominalization of the sentential expression of stative facts is not independently motivated. Moreover it goes against the plausible distinction between enabling conditions and triggering causes. The paper closes with the claim that facts can be genuine causes and effects.
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Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2002
This paper takes issue with a widely accepted view of mental causation. This is the view that men... more This paper takes issue with a widely accepted view of mental causation. This is the view that mental causation is either reducible to physical causation or ultimately untenable, because incompatible with the causal completeness of physics The paper examines, first, why recent attempts to save the phenomena of mental causation by way of the notion of supervenient causation fail The result of t/us examination is the claim that any attempted specification of the most basic causal factors which supposedly underlie a causal transaction cannot account for the counterfactually necessary connections with the effect m question. By contrast, the specification of these factors at a higher-level would allow establishing such connections. The paper doses with a discussion of how the view of autonomous higher-level causation grounded on counterfactual relations can be made compatible with the physicalistic commitment to a complete specification of the particular causes of any physical effect excl...
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