Jens Harbecke 
Mental Causation [PDF ebook] 
Investigating the Mind’s Powers in a Natural World

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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.

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Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 434 ● ISBN 9783110324846 ● Taille du fichier 1.8 MB ● Maison d’édition De Gruyter ● Lieu Berlin/Boston ● Publié 2013 ● Édition 1 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 6294309 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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