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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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A Brief History | |
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The Five Problems of Mental Causation | |
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Mental anomalism | |
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Normativity | |
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Phenomenal states of affairs | |
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Externalism | |
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Causal exclusion | |
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A Look Forward | |
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What we need | |
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What is coming | |
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Ontology | |
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Particulars, Properties, and Relations | |
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Particulars | |
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Properties | |
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How properties are had | |
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States of affairs | |
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Token identity of particulars | |
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Relations | |
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Relational properties | |
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Relationism | |
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Physicalism | |
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A negative account of 'physical' | |
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Supervenience and physical realization | |
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The free lunch principle | |
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Arguments for physicalism | |
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A Layered World | |
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Levels of organization | |
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Emergence | |
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Upward causation | |
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Multiple realizability | |
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Relational properties and indirect supervenience | |
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Relational properties and nonlocal supervenience | |
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Against type identity | |
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Non-identity and non-distinctness | |
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Summary | |
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Causality | |
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A Duality in the Concept of Causality | |
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Causality: the very idea | |
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The double face of causality | |
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Dependence and physical connection | |
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Generality and particularity | |
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Theories of causality | |
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Causal Dependence | |
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INUS conditions | |
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Counterfactuals and fixed circumstances | |
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Noncausal conditions | |
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Nonsalient causal conditions | |
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Counting causes and effects | |
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Indeterminism | |
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Collateral effects | |
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Overdetermination | |
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Pre-emption | |
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Causal Connection | |
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From counterfactual dependence to physical connection | |
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The mechanistic approach | |
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Causal processes | |
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First criticism: the at-at theory of causal influence | |
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Second criticism: causation by disconnection | |
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Third criticism: causal relevance | |
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Fourth criticism: the ontology of causal processes | |
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What causal connections are | |
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Unifying Dependence and Connection | |
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Physically linking causes and effects: Kitcher | |
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Physically linking causes and effects: Mackie | |
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Physically linking causes and effects: Dowe | |
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From relations and mechanisms to dependencies and connections | |
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The pairing problem | |
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The pairing principle | |
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Negative causal factors | |
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Why we think causally | |
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Causation and Natural Law | |
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The first problem of mental causation | |
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The nomological approach to causation | |
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Against the notion of 'causal law' | |
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Laws and patterns | |
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Particularism | |
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Perception of causal relations | |
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Causal perception as implicit knowledge | |
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Causal perception: object and content | |
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The Problem of Causal Relata | |
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Causal ontology and mental causation | |
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Hume, Kim, and others | |
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Examples of causal statements | |
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Excluding concrete particulars | |
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Excluding negative states of affairs | |
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Excluding regularities | |
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Properties of states of affairs | |
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Getting Events Wrong | |
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Event mereology | |
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Events according to Davidson | |
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First criticism: causal relations and causal explanations | |
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Second criticism: causal relevance and irrelevance of properties | |
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Third criticism: the need for states of affairs | |
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Getting Events Right | |
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Events according to Kim | |
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The narrative view: events as episodes | |
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In favour of the narrative view | |
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Events, ongoing processes, and states of affairs | |
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Relations as Causal Relata | |
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Relational causal relata | |
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Causal relations as causes | |
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Causal relations as effects | |
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Causal Efficacy | |
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The need for a criterion | |
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Locality and intrinsicness | |
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The criterion of local difference | |
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In favour of the criterion of local difference | |
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Relational properties | |
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The causal efficacy of relational properties | |
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The causal efficacy of the past | |
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Supervenient Causation | |
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Epiphenomenalism or downward causation: a dilemma? | |
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Relationality and causal autonomy | |
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Commensurateness and the correlation principle | |
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Downward causation and causal closure | |
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Downward causation as constraint | |
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Doing versus exploiting causal work | |
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Mind | |
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The Concept of Mind | |
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Introduction | |
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Mind presupposes teleology | |
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Mind presupposes representation | |
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Mind presupposes (ir-)rationality | |
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Mind presupposes perception and action | |
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Mind and qualia | |
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Against the Computational Theory | |
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Introduction | |
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The computational theory of mind | |
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First criticism: epiphenomenalism | |
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Second criticism: lack of psychological realism | |
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Further criticisms | |
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Propositional attitudes as mental models | |
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In favour of the theory of mental models | |
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Propositional attitudes according to interpretationism | |
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Against the Theory Theory | |
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Introduction | |
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The Theory Theory | |
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Against the Theory Theory | |
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Interpretationism | |
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Simulation theory | |
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Against Internalism | |
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Introduction | |
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Semantic externalism | |
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Interpretationist externalism | |
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Social and linguistic externalism | |
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Etiological externalism | |
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Environmentalism | |
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Reasons externalism | |
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Against Reductionism | |
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Introduction | |
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Nagel-reductionism | |
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Functional reductionism | |
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Eliminativism | |
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Reductionism as method | |
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Against Token Physicalism | |
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Introduction | |
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Mental holism and uncodifiability | |
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The problem of arbitrariness | |
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Weak externalism | |
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Against weak externalism | |
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Actions | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Five Problems Once Again | |
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Mental anomalism | |
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Normativity | |
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Phenomenal states of affairs | |
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Externalism | |
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Causal exclusion | |
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Conclusion | |
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References | |
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Name Index | |
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Subject Index | |