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Mental Causation : The Mind-Body Problem / Anthony Dardis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) : 4 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231144179
  • 9780231513517
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 128/.2
LOC classification:
  • BD418.3 .D37 2008
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Why Mental Causation? -- 2. Immortality and the Body -- 3. Dualism and Automatism -- 4. Ghosts and Machines -- 5. Properties -- 6. Causation and Properties -- 7. Sunburn and Fragile Th ings -- 8. Supervenience and Levels -- 9. The Causal Relevance of Mental Properties -- References -- Index
Summary: Two thousand years ago, Lucretius said that everything is atoms in the void; it's physics all the way down. Contemporary physicalism agrees. But if that's so how can we-how can our thoughts, emotions, our values-make anything happen in the physical world?This conceptual knot, the mental causation problem, is the core of the mind-body problem, closely connected to the problems of free will, consciousness, and intentionality. Anthony Dardis shows how to unravel the knot. He traces its early appearance in the history of philosophical inquiry, specifically in the work of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and T. H. Huxley. He then develops a metaphysical framework for a theory of causation, laws of nature, and the causal relevance of properties. Using this framework, Dardis explains how macro, or higher level, properties can be causally relevant in the same way that microphysical properties are causally relevant: by their relationship with the laws of nature. Smelling an orange, choosing the orange rather than the cheesecake, reaching for the one on the left instead of the one on the right-mental properties such as these take their place alongside the physical "motor of the world" in making things happen.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Why Mental Causation? -- 2. Immortality and the Body -- 3. Dualism and Automatism -- 4. Ghosts and Machines -- 5. Properties -- 6. Causation and Properties -- 7. Sunburn and Fragile Th ings -- 8. Supervenience and Levels -- 9. The Causal Relevance of Mental Properties -- References -- Index

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Two thousand years ago, Lucretius said that everything is atoms in the void; it's physics all the way down. Contemporary physicalism agrees. But if that's so how can we-how can our thoughts, emotions, our values-make anything happen in the physical world?This conceptual knot, the mental causation problem, is the core of the mind-body problem, closely connected to the problems of free will, consciousness, and intentionality. Anthony Dardis shows how to unravel the knot. He traces its early appearance in the history of philosophical inquiry, specifically in the work of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and T. H. Huxley. He then develops a metaphysical framework for a theory of causation, laws of nature, and the causal relevance of properties. Using this framework, Dardis explains how macro, or higher level, properties can be causally relevant in the same way that microphysical properties are causally relevant: by their relationship with the laws of nature. Smelling an orange, choosing the orange rather than the cheesecake, reaching for the one on the left instead of the one on the right-mental properties such as these take their place alongside the physical "motor of the world" in making things happen.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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