Mental Causation: Investigating the Mind’s Powers in a Natural World
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1. Verfasser: Harbecke, Jens (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin De Gruyter 2008
Schriftenreihe:Metaphysical Research 8
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Beschreibung:Main description: 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 these canonical solutions must be considered deficient. In a third part, the 'new compatibilist’s' approach to mental causation is explored, which is characterized by assertion of a non-identity-but-non-distinctness principle. The last part aims to offer an alternative solution to the problem. On the basis of a certain set of counterfactual conditionals, which are jointly taken to provide a definition of 'causal proportionality' that improves the existing definitions, it is shown that a specific, and hitherto widely neglected, version of causal overdeterminationism must be considered the most successful solution to the problem of mental causation
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (434 S.)
ISBN:9783110324495
9783110324846
9783110324853
DOI:10.1515/9783110324846

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