Mental Causation : : The Mind-Body Problem / / Anthony Dardis.
Two thousand years ago, Lucretius said that everything is atoms in the void; it's physics all the way down. Contemporary physicalism agrees. But if that's so how can we-how can our thoughts, emotions, our values-make anything happen in the physical world?This conceptual knot, the mental ca...
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Why Mental Causation?
- 2. Immortality and the Body
- 3. Dualism and Automatism
- 4. Ghosts and Machines
- 5. Properties
- 6. Causation and Properties
- 7. Sunburn and Fragile Th ings
- 8. Supervenience and Levels
- 9. The Causal Relevance of Mental Properties
- References
- Index