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Michael Brent
University of Denver
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
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The Causal Powers of Absences?
By now you might have heard of Tyron Goldschmidt's paper “A Demonstration of the Causal Power of Absences” in which he aims to do just that. In case you have yet to see it, the paper tries to do so by having nothing more than a title: the body of... Continue reading
Posted Feb 23, 2016 at Flickers of Freedom
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You Are Not an Event (Are You?)
Many accounts of the causation of overt intentional bodily actions assume that what happens when you are making your body move during an action must be explained in terms of causal relations among discrete *events*. For example, many claim that the occurrence of a mental event non-deviantly causes the occurrence... Continue reading
Posted Jun 11, 2015 at Flickers of Freedom
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