Hybrid Non-Naturalism Does Not Meet the Supervenience Challenge

Resilience to Meet the Challenge of Addiction

Acute and chronic stress-related mechanisms play an important role in the development of addiction and its chronic, relapsing nature. Multisystem adaptations in brain, body, behavioral, and social function may contribute to a dysregulated physiological state that is maintained beyond the homeostatic range. In addition, chronic abuse of substances leads to an altered set point across multiple sy...

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How Superduper Does a Physicalist Supervenience Need to Be?

It has recently been made clear that the standard formulations of the supervenience relation – weak, global and strong, among others – are too programmatic to be the full answer to a physicalist’s prayers. All the standard formulations present the supervenience of one set of properties on another in terms of property correlations, without placing any constraints on the dependency relation eVect...

Reality Does Not Recognize Borders

Reality does not recognize borders. Why we should use the very general term of “reality” and not science, because the borders that we draw are pure delusions, and on the opposite side there is the reality. The laws of the universe, either the physical nature of the world which the scientist studies or metaphysics which is the territory of philosophers, it isthe same reality that rules. Today ma...

Why does the central nervous system not regenerate after injury?

A major problem for neuroscientists and clinicians is why the central nervous system shows ineffective regeneration after injury. Injured peripheral nerve fibers reform their connections, whereas those in injured spinal cord never re-grow. Insights into the mechanisms for repair and restoration of function after spinal cord injury have been obtained by experiments showing that injured nerve cel...