Flanagan, Owen

Owen Flanagan has expressed a similar interpretation of the experiment. But his philosophical intent seems to be to argue against any idea that mind might be anything other than something caused by physical, observable-in-principle brain processes. He calls his position on the mind/brain debate "constructive naturalism", but seems to fall into the same trap concerning causation that I mentioned previously ... 

Consciousness Reconsidered, Owen Flanagan, 1992, MIT Press, ppl36-138. (back)... 

Dickens GR, O Neil JR, Rea DK, Owen RM (1995) Dissociation of oceanic methane hydrate as a cause of the carbon isotope excursion at the end of the Paleocene. Paleoceanog 10 965-971 Dickens GR, Castillo MM, Walker JCG (1997) A blast of gas in the latest Paleocene simulating first-order effects of massive dissociation of oceanic methane hydrate. Geology 25 259-262 Ehleringer JR, Sage RF, Flanagan LB, Pearcy RW (1991) Climate change and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis. Trends Ecol Evol 6 95-99... 

Flanagan, J.H., Jr., Owens, C.V., Romero, S.E., Waddell, E., Kahn, S.H., Hammer, R.P., and Soper, S.A., Near-infrared heavy-atom-modified fluorescent dyes for base-caUing in DNA-sequencing applications using temporal discrimination, Anal. Chem., 70, 2676, 1998. 

Johnson-Flanagan A M, Owens J N 1985 Peroxidase activity in relation to suberization and respiration in white spruce Picea glauca [Moench] Voss) seedling roots. Plant Physiol 79 103-107... 

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