Thomas Kroedel

Mental Causation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a comprehensive account of how the mind causes things to happen in the physical world. It will be of interest to a range of readers in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. This book is also available as Open Access.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781108487146
• ISBN-10: 1108487149
• Artikelnr.: 57016860

Autorenporträt

Thomas Kroedel is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Universität Hamburg. He has published articles in journals including Analysis, Noûs and The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Theories of the mind and theories of causation
2. Mental causation by counterfactual dependence
3. Mental causation by causal modelling
4. The exclusion problem
5. Conclusion.