epiphenomenalism (English, noun)
expansion: epiphenomenalism (countable and uncountable, plural epiphenomenalisms)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
psychology
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that mental states and processes are simply incidental effects of physiological events in the brain or nervous system and cannot themselves cause any effects in the material world.
tags: uncountable
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
psychology
sciences
glosses: Such a doctrine, as advanced by a particular thinker or school of thought.
tags: countable
Forms:
form: epiphenomenalisms
tags: plural