PHLB81H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Anomalous Monism, Epiphenomenalism, Mental Event
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Involuntary memory: where sensory or perceptual cues we encounter cause. Mental causation recollections of past experiences without conscious effort. There is also the madeleine causing our narrator to experience its taste, a case of physical-to-mental causation. The narrator first declines the tea offered by his mother, then changes his mind and takes the tea. An agent is someone with the capacity to perform actions for reasons, and most actions involve bodily movements. An agent is in control of what she does, and the control here can only mean causal control. Beliefs and desires guide actions, and by citing appropriate beliefs and desires, we are able to explain and make sense of why people do what they do. Desire-belief-action principle. (dba): if agent s desires something and believes that doing a is an optimal way of securing it, s will do a.
