Mental Causation : : Investigating the Mind’s Powers in a Natural World / / Jens Harbecke.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Metaphysical Research ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (434 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb. |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Problem of Mental Causation: premises and central principles -- Chapter 2. Canonical solutions to the Problem -- Chapter 3. New compatibilism and mental causation -- Chapter 4. Open solutions -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110324846 9783110238570 9783110238488 9783110636949 9783110331226 9783110331219 |
ISSN: | 2198-2120 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110324846 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jens Harbecke. |