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| Preface | |
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| Synopsis of the Arguments | |
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| Mental Causation and Consciousness: Our Two Mind-Body Problems | |
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| Mental Causation and Consciousnessx | |
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| The Supervenience/Exclusion Argument | |
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| Can We Reduce Qualia? | |
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| The Two World-Knots | |
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| The Supervenience Argument Motivated, Clarified, and Defended | |
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| Nonreductive Physicalism | |
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| The Fundamental Idea | |
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| The Supervenience Argument Refined and Clarified | |
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| Is Overdetermination an Option? | |
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| The Generalization Argument | |
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| Block's Causal Drainage Argument | |
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| The Rejection of Immaterial Minds: A Causal Argument | |
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| Cartesian Dualism and Mental Causation | |
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| Causation and the "Pairing" Problem | |
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| Causality and Space | |
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| Why Not Locate Souls in Space? | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Reduction, Reductive Explanation, and Closing the "Gap" | |
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| Reduction and Reductive Explanation | |
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| Bridge-Law Reduction and Functional Reduction | |
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| Explanatory Ascent and Constraint (R) | |
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| Functional Reduction and Reductive Explanation | |
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| Kripkean Identities and Reductive Explanation | |
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| Remarks about Block and Stalnaker's Proposal | |
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| Explanatory Arguments for Type Physicalism and Why They Don't Work | |
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| Are There Positive Arguments for Type Physicalism? | |
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| Hill's and McLaughlin's Explanatory Argument | |
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| Do Psychoneural Identities Explain Psychoneural Correlations? | |
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| Block and Stalnaker's Explanatory Argument | |
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| Another Way of Looking at the Two Explanatory Arguments | |
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| Physicalism, or Something Near Enough | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Physicalism at a Crossroads | |
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| Reducing Minds | |
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| Living with the Mental Residue | |
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| Where We Are at Last with the Mind-Body Problem | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |