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This work is a systematic investigation of a range of solutions offered today for the philosophical problem of mental causation. The premises constituting the problem are analyzed before a survey is developed of the most popular theories on mental causation. It is demonstrated in detail why most of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harbecke, Jens
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, 2008.
Colección:Metaphysical research ; Bd. 8.
Temas:
Philosophy of mind.
Causation.
Philosophie de l'esprit.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Causation
Philosophy of mind
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1The Problem of Mental Causation: premises andcentral principles
  • 1.1 Formulations of the Problem
  • 1.2 Supervenience
  • 1.3 Multiple realization and functional states
  • 1.4 Epiphenomena and the Eleatic Principle
  • 1.5 Theoretical economy and explanatory strength
  • 1.6 The neutrality of the Problem
  • Chapter 2Canonical solutions to the Problem
  • 2.1 Dualism
  • 2.2 Physicalism
  • 2.3 Special cases
  • 2.4 Summary and conclusion
  • Chapter 3New compatibilism and mental causation
  • 3.1 The “constitutionalistâ€? approach3.2 The “determinationistâ€? approach
  • 3.3 Theories inspired by the “determinationistâ€? approach
  • 3.4 Critique
  • 3.5 Summary and conclusion
  • Chapter 4Open solutions
  • 4.1 Introductory remarks
  • 4.2 Reviewing the solutions
  • 4.3 Overdeterminationism Lite pursued
  • 4.4 Plural Determinism pursued
  • 4.5 Overdeterminationism Lite vs. Plural Determinism
  • 4.6 Summary and Conclusion
  • Bibliography

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