Mental causation /
"Common sense and philosophical tradition agree that mind makes a difference. What we do depends not only on how our bodies are put together, but also on what we think. Explaining how mind can make a difference has proved challenging, however. Some have urged that the project faces an insurmoun...
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Thinking causes / Donald Davidson
- Can supervenience and "non-strict laws' save anomalous monism? / Jaegwon Kim
- On Davidson's response to the charge of epiphenomenalism / Brian P. McLaughlin
- Davidson's thinking causes / Ernest Sola
- Mental causation : sustaining and dynamic / Robert Audi
- Metaphysics and mental causation / Lynne Rudder Baker
- Mind-body causation and explanatory practice / Tyler Burge
- Mental events as structuring causes of behaviour / Fred Dretske
- The union theory and anti-individualism / Ted Honderich
- Agency and causal explanation / Jennifer Hornsby
- The non-reductivist's troubles with mental causation / Jaegwon Kim
- Explanation in Biopsychology / Ruth Garrett Millikan
- Who's in charge here? And who's doing all the work? / Robert Van Gulick
- Some content is narrow / Frank Jackson and Philip Pettit
- Object-dependent thoughts : a case of superficial necessity but deep contingency? / H.W. Noonan
- Abilities, concepts, and externalism / Ernest Sosa.