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Leibniz On Causation

I’ve just completed and submitted a paper on Leibniz’s view of intrasubstantial monadic causation.  The paper was an evaluation of the “monadic states as formal and final causes of their subsequent states” model.  It can be found with the rest of my papers.

What is the role of causation in justification?

Just a short note regarding some disputes that i’ve been having recently with some colleagues. I’ve recently been concerned with sub-doxastic mental states. Subdoxastic mental states are representational mental states that are not beliefs, are non-conceptual (this is controversial), are inaccessible to consciousness (this is controversial), and are inferentially isolated (this is controversial, though less so). They are representational mental states which play a role in causing beliefs.

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