Knowledge Tree
Relations (1)
cross_type 0.30 — supporting 3 facts
David Chalmers directly engages with mental causation as a philosopher, identifying it as a motivation for panpsychism alongside the causal closure of the physical [1], arguing that consciousness theories must address it to avoid related problems [2], and critiquing non-Russellian panpsychism for issues with it [3].
Facts (3)
Sources
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 1 fact
quoteDavid Chalmers asserts that non-Russellian panpsychism faces obvious problems regarding mental causation.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers and Philip Goff identify the need to account for mental causation within the causal closure of the physical—the thesis that every physical event has a sufficient physical cause—as a motivation for panpsychism.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimPhilosophers such as David Chalmers argue that theories of consciousness must provide insight into the brain and mind to avoid the problem of mental causation.