Minds, causes, and mechanisms : a case against physicalism
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Minds, causes, and mechanisms : a case against physicalism
（Aristotelian Society series, 17）
Blackwell, 2000
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- : hbk
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: hbk ISBN 9780631218012
Description
Minds, Causes, and Mechanisms questions the internal consistency of causal physicalism, and vindicates a novel approach to mental causation.Through a series of original and detailed arguments, it is made clear that many difficulties in the physicalist picture derive from an implausible view about causality. An alternative approach is defended which shows how mental contents, as opposed to functional properties, may be causally efficacious without having an implementing mechanism. This volume includes a lucid discussion of recent developments by philosophers such as Block, Davidson, Fodor, Kim, Lewis, Mellor, Putnam, Schiffer, Shoemaker, and Yablo.No one who wants to deal with the issue of mental causation, or causation in general, will be able to ignore the strong case against physicalism that this book makes.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Physicalism and the Mental: The Dominant View. 2. An Initial Tension: Narrowness and Multiple Realization. 3. Dispositions, Minimality, and Intrinsic Causal Powers. 4. 'Ceteris Paribus' Laws and the Autonomy of Nonbasic Properties. 5. Strict Laws, Causes, and Background Conditions. 6. Mental Causation. Notes. References. Index.
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: pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780631218029
Description
Minds, Causes, and Mechanisms questions the internal consistency of causal physicalism, and vindicates a novel approach to mental causation.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. Introduction.
1. Physicalism and the Mental: The Dominant View.
2. An Initial Tension: Narrowness and Multiple Realization.
3. Dispositions, Minimality, and Intrinsic Causal Powers.
4. 'Ceteris Paribus' Laws and the Autonomy of Nonbasic Properties.
5. Strict Laws, Causes, and Background Conditions.
6. Mental Causation.
Notes.
References.
Index.
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