Minds, Causes, and Mechanisms questions the internal consistency of causal physicalism, and vindicates a novel approach to mental causation.
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'In their interesting and important book, Corbí and Prades successfully identify and question the metaphysical assumptions behind current orthodoxy about mental causation, making an original and important contribution to our understanding of this central topic.'
Christopher Hookway, University of Sheffield
'Minds, Causes, and Mechanisms is a timely and highly valuable contribution that will re-energize the ongoing debate and take it to another level. It offers refeshingly lucid and illuminating analysis and critique of the basic assumptions and arguments that have shaped the dominant physicalist outlook in this area, what Corbí and Prades call "causal physicalism". This book is an essential contribution. Highly recommended.'
Jaegwon Kim, Brown University
'A thorough and subtle critique of physicalism. After reading it, even committed physicalists may conclude that their doctrine is beyond resurrection.'
George Couvalis, Flinders University
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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.
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nonbasic properties, causal physicalist, narrow correlate, nonbasic property, causal counterfactual dependence, nonbasic causation, standard functional properties, certain normality conditions, physically possible circumstances, counterfactual link, massive overdetermination, physicalist constraints, different causal lines, realizing context, normality clause, been tokened, basic causal powers, unconditional dispositions, causal dispositions, causal typologies, nomic accounts, physical closure, supervenience constraints, physicalist intuitions, physical twins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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nonbasic properties, causal physicalist, narrow correlate, nonbasic property, causal counterfactual dependence, nonbasic causation, standard functional properties, certain normality conditions, physically possible circumstances, counterfactual link, massive overdetermination, physicalist constraints, different causal lines, realizing context, normality clause, been tokened, basic causal powers, unconditional dispositions, causal dispositions, causal typologies, nomic accounts, physical closure, supervenience constraints, physicalist intuitions, physical twins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) by John Heil on 4 pages
- Mental Causation by John Heil in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Philosophy of Mind (Dimensions of Philosophy) by Jaegwon Kim in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Philosophy of Psychology by Graham Macdonald in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Language of Thought (Language & Thought Series) by Jerry A. Fodor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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