Mental Causation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mental Causation write by Thomas Kroedel. This book was released on 2019-12-19. Mental Causation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a comprehensive account of how the mind causes things to happen in the physical world. This book is also available as Open Access.
Physicalism and Mental Causation
Physicalism and Mental Causation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Physicalism and Mental Causation write by Sven Walter. This book was released on 2015-11-04. Physicalism and Mental Causation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Physicalism—the thesis that everything there is in the world, including our minds, is constituted by basic physical entities—has dominated the philosophy of mind during the last few decades. But although the conceptual foundations of the physicalist agenda—including a proper explication of notions such as ‘causation', ‘determination', ‘realization’ or even ‘physicalism’ itself—must be settled before more specific problems (e.g. the problems of mental causation and human agency) can be satisfactorily addressed, a comprehensive philosophical reflection on the relationships between the various key concepts of the debate on physicalism is yet missing. This book presents a range of essays on the conceptual foundations of physicalism, mental causation and human agency, written by established and leading authors in the field.
Mental Causation and Ontology
Mental Causation and Ontology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mental Causation and Ontology write by S. C. Gibb. This book was released on 2013-03-21. Mental Causation and Ontology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book demonstrates the importance of ontology for a central debate in philosophy of mind. Mental causation seems an obvious aspect of the world. But it is hard to understand how it can happen unless we get clear about what the entities involved in the process are. An international team of contributors presents new work on this problem.
The Causal Exclusion Problem
The Causal Exclusion Problem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Causal Exclusion Problem write by Dwayne Moore. This book was released on 2014. The Causal Exclusion Problem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Causal Exclusion Problem, the popular strategy of abandoning any one of the principles constituting the causal exclusion problem is considered, but ultimately rejected. The metaphysical foundations undergirding the causal exclusion problem are then explored, revealing that the causal exclusion problem cannot be dislodged by undermining its metaphysical foundations - as some are in the habit of doing. Finally, the significant difficulties associated with the bevy of contemporary nonreductive solutions, from supervenience to emergentism, are expanded upon. While conducting this survey of contemporary options, however, two novel approaches are introduced, both of which may resolve the causal exclusion problem from within a nonreductive physicalist paradigm. The Causal Exclusion Problem, which relentlessly motivates the vexing causal exclusion problem and exhaustively surveys its metaphysical assumptions and contemporary responses, is ideal for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course in the philosophy of mind.
Mind in a Physical World
Mind in a Physical World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mind in a Physical World write by Jaegwon Kim. This book was released on 2000. Mind in a Physical World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of finding a place for the mind in a world that is fundamentally physical. Among other points, he redefines the roles of supervenience and emergence in the discussion of the mind-body problem. Arguing that various contemporary accounts of mental causation are inadequate, he offers his own partially reductionist solution on the basis of a novel model of reduction. Retaining the informal tone of the lecture format, the book is clear yet sophisticated.
