Mental Causation

Thomas Kroedel

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Mental Causation

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Thomas Kroedel, Universität Hamburg

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: December 2019
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781108762717
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108762717
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind and Language, Philosophy

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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.

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Mental Causation
pp i-ii

Mental Causation - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Figures
pp vi-viii

Preface
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-12

Chapter 1 - Theories of the Mind and Theories of Causation
pp 13-59

Chapter 2 - Mental Causation by Counterfactual Dependence
pp 60-97

Chapter 3 - Mental Causation by Causal Modelling
pp 98-151

Chapter 4 - The Exclusion Problem
pp 152-201

Chapter 5 - Conclusion
pp 202-203

Appendices
pp 204-207

Appendix 1 - Counterfactuals and Spheres
pp 204-206

Appendix 2 - Valid and Invalid Inference Rules for Counterfactuals
pp 207-207

References
pp 208-220

Index
pp 221-224

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