Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
DOI: 10.25138/16.1.a2
Author: Aloysius Nnaemeka Ezeoba
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4283389689