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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 | |