Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0664108

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0664108

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Mental Causation in a Physical World. The issues concerning mental causation are not just philosophical issues. They are discussed in the fields of psychology, cognitive science, and psychiatry as questions about whether mental phenomena, eg mental illnesses, are best understood at the cognitive level or the neurophysiological level of causation. The project will result in a research monograph aimed at practitioners from these fields among others. By introducing these practitioners to recent philosophical thinking about causation and reduction, the present project may lead to more subtle ways of conceptualising and treating mental illnesses, and so contribute indirectly to the socio-economic benefits accruing from more reflective psychological and psychiatric practice.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2006

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $80,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Philosophy | Philosophy Of Mind (Excl. Cognition) | Metaphysics | History And Philosophy Of Science And Technology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Studies in human society |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | History And Philosophy Of Science And Technology | Metaphysics | Philosophy | Philosophy Of Mind (Excl. Cognition) | Studies in human society

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