Description |
1 online resource (434 pages) : illustrations |
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Metaphysical research ; Bd. 8 |
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Metaphysical research ; Bd. 8.
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Contents |
Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1The Problem of Mental Causation: premises andcentral principles -- 1.1 Formulations of the Problem -- 1.2 Supervenience -- 1.3 Multiple realization and functional states -- 1.4 Epiphenomena and the Eleatic Principle -- 1.5 Theoretical economy and explanatory strength -- 1.6 The neutrality of the Problem -- Chapter 2Canonical solutions to the Problem -- 2.1 Dualism -- 2.2 Physicalism -- 2.3 Special cases -- 2.4 Summary and conclusion -- Chapter 3New compatibilism and mental causation |
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3.1 The “constitutionalist� approach3.2 The “determinationist� approach -- 3.3 Theories inspired by the “determinationist� approach -- 3.4 Critique -- 3.5 Summary and conclusion -- Chapter 4Open solutions -- 4.1 Introductory remarks -- 4.2 Reviewing the solutions -- 4.3 Overdeterminationism Lite pursued -- 4.4 Plural Determinism pursued -- 4.5 Overdeterminationism Lite vs. Plural Determinism -- 4.6 Summary and Conclusion -- Bibliography |
Summary |
This work is a systematic investigation of a range of solutions offered today for the philosophical problem of mental causation. The premises constituting the problem are analyzed before a survey is developed of the most popular theories on mental causation. It is demonstrated in detail why most of these canonical solutions must be considered deficient. In a third part, the 'new compatibilist's' approach to mental causation is explored, which is characterized by assertion of a non-identity-but-non-distinctness principle. The last part aims to offer an alternative solution to the problem. On the basis of a certain set of counterfactual conditionals, which are jointly taken to provide a definition of 'causal proportionality' that improves the existing definitions, it is shown that a specific, and hitherto widely neglected, version of causal overdeterminationism must be considered the most successful solution to the problem of mental causation |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Philosophy of mind.
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Causation.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Causation
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Philosophy of mind
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9783110324846 |
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3110324849 |
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3938793945 |
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9783938793947 |
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3110324490 |
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9783110324495 |
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