Mental Causation

Name: Mental Causation
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ISBN: 9780198235644

ISBN-10: 019823564X

ISBN-13: 9780198235644

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Authors: John Heil, Alfred Mele

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Common sense and philosophical tradition agree that mind makes a difference. What we do depends not only on how our bodies are put together, but also on what we think. Explaining how mind can make a difference has proved challenging, however. Some have urged that the project faces an insurmountable dilemma: either we concede that mentalistic explanations of behaviour have only a pragmatic standing or we abandon our conception of the physical domain as causally autonomous. Although each option has its advocates, most theorists have sought a middle way that accommodates both the common-sense view of mind and the metaphysical conviction about the physical world. This volume presents a…

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List price: $72.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/14/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Notes On Contributors



Davidson, Anomalous Monism, and Mental Causation



Thinking Causes



Can Supervenience and 'Non-Strict Laws'Save Anomalous Monism?



On Davidson's Response to the Chargeof Epiphenomenalism



Davidson's Thinking Causes ERNEST SOSA



Causation and Explanation



Mental Causation: Sustaining and Dynamic



Metaphysics and Mental Causation



Mind--Body Causation and Explanatory Practice



Mental Events as Structuring Causes of Behaviour



The Union Theory and Anti-Individualism



Agency and Causal Explanation



The Non-Reductivist's Troubles with Mental Causation



Explanation in Biopsychology



Who's in Charge Here? And Who's Doing All the Work?



Content



Some Content is Narrow



Object-Dependent Thoughts A Case of Superficial Necessity but Deep Contingency?



Abilities, Concepts, and Externalism


Index