TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harbecke,Jens
TI  - Mental Causation: Investigating the Mind’s Powers in a Natural World 
T2  - Metaphysical Research ,
SN  - 9783110324495
AV  - BD418.3 .H37 2008eb
U1  - 128.2 22
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Causation
KW  - Philosophy of mind
KW  - Ontologie
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Psychologie
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110324846
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110324846
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110324846/original
ER  -