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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 19 December 2019

Presents a comprehensive account of how the mind causes things to happen in the physical world. This book is also available as Open Access.

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• File Size : 31,6 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 2024

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

• Publisher : MIT Press
• File Size : 26,9 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 2024

This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation,

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 21 March 2013

This book demonstrates the importance of ontology for a central debate in philosophy of mind. Mental causation seems an obvious aspect of the world. But it is hard to understand

• Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
• File Size : 26,5 Mb
• Release Date : 04 November 2015

Physicalism—the thesis that everything there is in the world, including our minds, is constituted by basic physical entities—has dominated the philosophy of mind during the last few decades.

• Publisher : American University Studies
• File Size : 49,5 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 2024

In The Causal Exclusion Problem, the popular strategy of abandoning any one of the principles constituting the causal exclusion problem is considered, but ultimately rejected. The metaphysical foundations undergirding the

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• File Size : 44,7 Mb
• Release Date : 10 September 2008

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

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
• File Size : 32,8 Mb
• Release Date : 02 May 2013

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

• Publisher : Peter Lang
• File Size : 30,6 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 2024

How do mental events such as choices and decisions lead to physical action? The problem of mental causation is one of the most important and intriguing philosophical issues of our

• Publisher : Broadview Press
• File Size : 44,9 Mb
• Release Date : 02 January 2003

Since Descartes’s division of the human subject into mental and physical components in the seventeenth century, there has been a great deal of discussion about how—indeed, whether or