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Epiphenomenal properties

Epiphenomenal properties
Epiphenomenal properties
What is an epiphenomenal property? This question needs to be settled before we can decide whether higher-level properties are epiphenomenal or not. In this paper, I offer an account of what it is for a property to have some causal power. From this, I derive a characterization of the notion of an epiphenomenal property. I then argue that physically realized higher-level properties are not epiphenomenal, because laws of nature impose causal similarities on the bearers of such properties, and these similarities figure as powers in the causal profiles of these properties.
epiphenomenalism, mental causation
0004-8402
419-431
Baysan, Umut
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Baysan, Umut
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Baysan, Umut (2018) Epiphenomenal properties. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 96 (3), 419-431. (doi:10.1080/00048402.2017.1366534).

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What is an epiphenomenal property? This question needs to be settled before we can decide whether higher-level properties are epiphenomenal or not. In this paper, I offer an account of what it is for a property to have some causal power. From this, I derive a characterization of the notion of an epiphenomenal property. I then argue that physically realized higher-level properties are not epiphenomenal, because laws of nature impose causal similarities on the bearers of such properties, and these similarities figure as powers in the causal profiles of these properties.

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Published date: 21 August 2018
Keywords: epiphenomenalism, mental causation
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Local EPrints ID: 505204
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/505204
DOI: doi:10.1080/00048402.2017.1366534
ISSN: 0004-8402
PURE UUID: 4fcd3194-922c-4483-8f00-2970bfd6b2c2
ORCID for Umut Baysan: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1975-0739

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Date deposited: 01 Oct 2025 16:50
Last modified: 02 Oct 2025 02:19

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