Mental Causation : Investigating the Mind’s Powers in a Natural World /
Harbecke, Jens
Mental Causation : Investigating the Mind’s Powers in a Natural World / Jens Harbecke. - 1 online resource (434 p.) : Zahlr. Abb. - Metaphysical Research , 8 2198-2120 ; .
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Problem of Mental Causation: premises and central principles -- Chapter 2. Canonical solutions to the Problem -- Chapter 3. New compatibilism and mental causation -- Chapter 4. Open solutions -- Bibliography -- Index
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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 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110324495 9783110324846
10.1515/9783110324846 doi
Causation.
Philosophy of mind.
Ontologie.
Philosophie.
Psychologie.
PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body.
BD418.3 / .H37 2008eb
128.2
Mental Causation : Investigating the Mind’s Powers in a Natural World / Jens Harbecke. - 1 online resource (434 p.) : Zahlr. Abb. - Metaphysical Research , 8 2198-2120 ; .
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Problem of Mental Causation: premises and central principles -- Chapter 2. Canonical solutions to the Problem -- Chapter 3. New compatibilism and mental causation -- Chapter 4. Open solutions -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110324495 9783110324846
10.1515/9783110324846 doi
Causation.
Philosophy of mind.
Ontologie.
Philosophie.
Psychologie.
PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body.
BD418.3 / .H37 2008eb
128.2