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Mental Causation : Investigating the Mind's Powers in a Natural World.
Title:
Mental Causation : Investigating the Mind's Powers in a Natural World.
Author:
Harbecke, Jens.
ISBN:
9783110324846
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (434 pages)
Series:
Metaphysical Research ; v.8

Metaphysical Research
Contents:
Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1The Problem of Mental Causation: premises andcentral principles -- 1.1 Formulations of the Problem -- 1.2 Supervenience -- 1.3 Multiple realization and functional states -- 1.4 Epiphenomena and the Eleatic Principle -- 1.5 Theoretical economy and explanatory strength -- 1.6 The neutrality of the Problem -- Chapter 2Canonical solutions to the Problem -- 2.1 Dualism -- 2.2 Physicalism -- 2.3 Special cases -- 2.4 Summary and conclusion -- Chapter 3New compatibilism and mental causation -- 3.1 The "constitutionalist" approach -- 3.2 The "determinationist" approach -- 3.3 Theories inspired by the "determinationist" approach -- 3.4 Critique -- 3.5 Summary and conclusion -- Chapter 4Open solutions -- 4.1 Introductory remarks -- 4.2 Reviewing the solutions -- 4.3 Overdeterminationism Lite pursued -- 4.4 Plural Determinism pursued -- 4.5 Overdeterminationism Lite vs. Plural Determinism -- 4.6 Summary and Conclusion -- Bibliography.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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