Causal Power of the Substance of the Human Person vis-à-vis the Physicalists’ Causality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21828065 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aloysius Nnaemeka Ezeoba (0000-0001-6337-0621, corresponding author), Nigeria Department of Philosophy Bigard Memorial Seminary |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-57 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Kritike An Online Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1908-7330 • E-ISSN: 1908-7330 |
| Publisher | Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25138/16.1.a2 |
| OpenAlex | W4283389689 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
One major problem which the substance of the human person has encountered in the course of the history of philosophy is that of explaining the sense in which it has causal power. Aristotle taught that substance has genuine causal power which made him describe substance as a unified entity and not as a bundle of properties or bundle of particles as atomists, such as Democritus, held. The naturalists, especially the physicalists, argue that causal power belongs only to the physical states and not to substance as a unifying entity. This paper uses the argument from imputability to sustain that, against physicalism, the substance of the human person has causal power because it is a unified entity possessing consciousness and free will. Thus, one's action is imputable to one's substance as a unified free conscious agent
Consciousness · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Physicalism · Physics · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Medicine · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |