Mental Causation The Mind-Body Problem

Name: Mental Causation The Mind-Body Problem
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ISBN: 9780231144179

ISBN-10: 0231144172

ISBN-13: 9780231144179

Edition: 2008

Authors: Anthony Dardis

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Two thousand years ago, Lucretius said that everything is atoms in the void; that it is physics all the way down. Contemporary physicalism agrees, but if that's so how can we-how can our thoughts, emotions, our values-make anything happen in the physical world? This conundrum is called the mental causation problem, and it is closely related to the free will problem, connecting to issues regarding consciousness and intentionality. Anthony Dardis lays out the conceptual history of the mental causation problem in clear and accessible terms and offers a way to fit mental causation into our physical world. His book begins with how the problem appears in the history of philosophy, specifically in…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.89" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Anthony Dardis is professor of philosophy at Hofstra University. He has previously taught at Pomona College and the University of Georgia, and his work has been published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis, Acta Analytica, Dialogue, and Consciousness and Cognition.



Preface


Acknowledgments



Why Mental Causation?



Immortality and the Body



Dualism and Automatism



Ghosts and Machines



Properties



Causation and Properties



Sunburn and Fragile Things



Supervenience and Levels



The Causal Relevance of Mental Properties


References


Index