Substantiality and Causality - Szatkowski, Miroslaw (De Gruyter, 2014)
The problem of causal relation between the world and mind
Acknowledgements; Editorial Introduction; Part I Substantiality and Causality -- Dierent Approaches; Substantiality and Causality. Classical and Transcendental Approach; Part II Causal Aspects of Substance; Remarks on the Ontology of Living Beings and the Causality of their Behavior; Two arguments for the ontological difference between corporeal and psychic reality; The somatic as symptom of the psychic; An example for the causality of the psychic as such; A general model proposal: psychophysical causality through favor; Tropes, Causal Processes and Functional Laws; Introduction
Quantity tropes: the basic constituents of objectsFunctional laws; Tropes and causal processes; Conclusion; Forms of Judgment as a Link between Mind and the Concepts of Substance and Cause; Introduction; The original unity of self-consciousness (Kant); The logical deduction of the primitive forms of judgment from the original unity of self-consciousness (Kant); Concept; Judgment; Objective validity of the concepts of substance and cause; "I am a Force" -- An Attempt of Ontological Interpretation of Ingarden's Metaphor; The metaphor of force in the essay Man and Time
The philosophical concept of forceThe possibility of application of the concept of force to Ingarden's ontology; Part III Substantialistic Background of Causation; The Causal Structure of the World in Ingarden's Ontology; The causal typology of events and their notation; Determinism and the poles of the real world; Causal life of monads and other systems; The problem of chance; Freedom in relatively isolated systems; Conclusion; The Case for Agent-Causation; Symbols; Conventions; A picture of the causation of physical events as viewed in 19th-century physics
Three alternative pictures of the causation of physical events as viewed in 20th-century physicsCentral agent-causal concepts; A sucient and agent-causal analysis of an action -- of raising one's arm; Nine insucient analyses of raising one's arm; Deviant causal chains?; Causal responsibility and moral responsibility; Illustrations; Seven objections to agent-causation answered; Agent-causation and freedom of the will; The way from freely willed behaviour to agent-causation; Consciousness, Intentionality, and Causality; The problem(s); Intentionality; Formal causality in cognition