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Mental Causation : Investigating the Mind’s Powers in a Natural World / Jens Harbecke.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Metaphysical Research ; 8Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (434 p.) : Zahlr. AbbContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110324495
  • 9783110324846
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 128.2 22
LOC classification:
  • BD418.3 .H37 2008eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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