Mental causation : a counterfactual theory /

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Author / Creator:Kroedel, Thomas, 1977- author.
Imprint:New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13479435
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ISBN:9781108762717
1108762719
9781108487146
1108487149
9781108487146
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"Explaining how various theories about the nature of mind can accommodate mental causation requires some groundwork. It requires formulating these theories about the nature of mind more precisely. It also requires getting clearer about the nature of causation, which in turn has two aspects: the nature of the relata of causation and the nature of the relation itself. These are the tasks of this chapter"--
Other form:Print version: Kroedel, Thomas, 1977- Mental causation New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019. 9781108487146
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Summary:Our minds have physical effects. This happens, for instance, when we move our bodies when we act. How is this possible? Thomas Kroedel defends an account of mental causation in terms of difference-making: if our minds had been different, the physical world would have been different; therefore, the mind causes events in the physical world. His account not only explains how the mind has physical effects at all, but solves the exclusion problem - the problem of how those effects can have both mental and physical causes. It is also unprecedented in scope, because it is available to dualists about the mind as well as physicalists, drawing on traditional views of causation as well as on the latest developments in the field of causal modelling. It will be of interest to a range of readers in philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. This book is also available as Open Access.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781108762717
1108762719
9781108487146
1108487149