Mental Causation Timeline Game
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About This Challenge
In exploring the concept of mental causation, we can delve into the complexities of cause and effect within the realm of the mind. One way to engage with this topic is through the interactive experience of a timeline game.
- The game challenges players to place events in their correct chronological order, highlighting the interconnectedness of past actions and their impact on future outcomes.
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- 17th century: Descartes proposes the mind-body dualism theory, asserting that the mind and body are separate substances
- 1739: David Hume introduces the concept of causation as constant conjunction
- 1781: Immanuel Kant argues for the existence of mental causation in his Critique of Pure Reason
- 1879: Wilhelm Wundt founds the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany
- 1890: William James publishes his influential book 'The Principles of Psychology'
- late 19th to early 20th century: Sigmund Freud develops psychoanalytic theory, emphasizing the role of the unconscious mind in mental causation
- early 20th century: Behaviorism becomes a dominant school of thought in psychology, focusing on observable behavior rather than mental processes
- 1949: Gilbert Ryle criticizes Descartes' theory of mind-body dualism in his book 'The Concept of Mind'
- 1970s: Donald Davidson introduces the anomalous monism theory, arguing for the compatibility of mental causation and physical determinism
- 1993: Jaegwon Kim proposes the causal exclusion argument, suggesting that mental causation is incompatible with physicalism
- 1996: David Chalmers introduces the concept of the 'hard problem of consciousness', highlighting the challenge of explaining how mental states cause physical events
- 2005: Kim argues for the overdetermination problem in mental causation, suggesting that mental and physical events can both cause the same outcome
- 2010: Hedda Hassel Mørch proposes a non-reductive account of mental causation, emphasizing the causal powers of mental properties
- 2017: Daniel Dennett criticizes the concept of mental causation, arguing for a physicalist approach to explaining consciousness
- ongoing: Philosophers continue to debate the nature and implications of mental causation in contemporary discussions on the mind-body problem