Wim de Muijnck

Dependencies, Connections, and Other Relations (eBook, PDF)

A Theory of Mental Causation

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Produktbeschreibung

This work covers, in its subsequent parts, ontology, the metaphysics of causation, and the philosophy of mind. It provides a firm theoretical basis for believing that in our all-physical world mental causation is perfectly real, and that it can be understood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401701211
• Artikelnr.: 44172015

Inhaltsangabe

I. Ontology.- 1 Particulars, Properties, and Relations.- 2 Physicalism.- 3 A Layered World.- II. Causality.- 4 A Duality in the Concept of Causality.- 5 Causal Dependence.- 6 Causal Connection.- 7 Unifying Dependence and Connection.- 8 Causation and Natural Law.- 9 The Problem of Causal Relata.- 10 Getting Events Wrong.- 11 Getting Events Right.- 12 Relations as Causal Relata.- 13 Causal Efficacy.- 14 Supervenient Causation.- III. Mind.- 15 The Concept of Mind.- 16 Against the Computational Theory.- 17 Against the Theory Theory.- 18 Against Internalism.- 19 Against Reductionism.- 20 Against Token Physicalism.- Conclusion.- 21 The Five Problems Once Again.- References.- Name Index.