Mental Causation
A Nonreductive Approach
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 time and has been at the centre of debates in the philosophy of mind for the past fifty years. In opposition to the recent wave of reductionist theories, this book argues that it is possible to account for mental causation within a nonreductive framework as it adopts a broadly Davidsonian approach to mental causation: reasons cause actions because they are identical to physical events. This work then defends this approach from the frequently raised criticism that it…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4331-0374-2
- EAN: 9781433103742
- Produktnummer: 19040888
- Verlag: Lang, Peter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 113 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.8 cm x D1.5 cm 335 g
- Gewicht: 335
Über den Autor
The Author: Neil Campbell is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He has published numerous articles on the philosophy of mind, is the author of A Brief Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (2005), and is the editor of Freedom, Determinism and Responsibility: Readings in Metaphysics (2003) and Readings in Mental Causation (2003).
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