[PDF] Mental Causation And Ontology eBook

Author : S. C. Gibb
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199603774

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This book demonstrates the importance of ontology for a central debate in philosophy of mind. Mental causation seems an obvious aspect of the world. But it is hard to understand how it can happen unless we get clear about what the entities involved in the process are. An international team of contributors presents new work on this problem.

Author : Giuseppe Vicari
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9042024666

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This book is a systematic analysis of John R. Searle's philosophy of mind. Searle's view of mind, as a set of subjective and biologically embodied processes, can account for our being part of nature qua mindful beings. This model finds support in neuroscience and offers reliable solutions to the problems of consciousness, mental causation, and the self.

Author : Jens Harbecke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110324849

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This work is a systematic investigation of a range of solutions offered today for the philosophical problem of mental causation. The premises constituting the problem are analyzed before a survey is developed of the most popular theories on mental causation. It is demonstrated in detail why most of these canonical solutions must be considered deficient. In a third part, the 'new compatibilist’s' approach to mental causation is explored, which is characterized by assertion of a non-identity-but-non-distinctness principle. The last part aims to offer an alternative solution to the problem. On the basis of a certain set of counterfactual conditionals, which are jointly taken to provide a definition of 'causal proportionality' that improves the existing definitions, it is shown that a specific, and hitherto widely neglected, version of causal overdeterminationism must be considered the most successful solution to the problem of mental causation.

Author : Wim de Muijnck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401701210

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This work covers, in its subsequent parts, ontology, the metaphysics of causation, and the philosophy of mind. It provides a firm theoretical basis for believing that in our all-physical world mental causation is perfectly real, and that it can be understood.

Author : Jaegwon Kim
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780262611534

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This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of finding a place for the mind in a world that is fundamentally physical. Among other points, he redefines the roles of supervenience and emergence in the discussion of the mind-body problem. Arguing that various contemporary accounts of mental causation are inadequate, he offers his own partially reductionist solution on the basis of a novel model of reduction. Retaining the informal tone of the lecture format, the book is clear yet sophisticated.

Author : Jens Harbecke
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783938793947

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This work systematically investigates a range of solutions forthe philosophical problem of mental causation. The premisesconstituting the problem are analyzed, then a survey is developedof the most popular theories on mental causation. Harbeckedemonstrates why most of these canonical solutions must beconsidered deficient. In a third part, the "new compatibilists"approach to mental causation is explored, which is characterizedby assertion of a non-identity-but-non-distinctness principle.The last part offers an alternative solution to the problem. Onthe basis of a certain set of counterfactual conditionals, which arejointly taken to provide a definition of "causal proportionality"that improves the existing definitions, it is shown that a specific,and hitherto widely neglected, version of causal overdeterminationismmust be considered the most successful solution tothe problem.

Author : R.D. Ingthorsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1000361039

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This book critically examines the recent discussions of powers and powers-based accounts of causation. The author then develops an original view of powers-based causation that aims to be compatible with the theories and findings of natural science. Recently, there has been a dramatic revival of realist approaches to properties and causation, which focus on the relevance of Aristotelian metaphysics and the notion of powers for a scientifically informed view of causation. In this book, R.D. Ingthorsson argues that one central feature of powers-based accounts of causation is arguably incompatible with what is today recognised as fact in the sciences, notably that all interactions are thoroughly reciprocal. Ingthorsson’s powerful particulars view of causation accommodates for the reciprocity of interactions. It also draws out the consequences of that view for issue of causal necessity and offers a way to understand the constitution and persistence of compound objects as causal phenomena. Furthermore, Ingthorsson argues that compound entities, so understood, are just as much processes as they are substances. A Powerful Particulars View of Causation will be of great interest to scholars and advanced students working in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and neo-Aristotelian philosophy, while also being accessible for a general audience. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003094241, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Sven Walter
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1845405838

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Physicalism—the thesis that everything there is in the world, including our minds, is constituted by basic physical entities—has dominated the philosophy of mind during the last few decades. But although the conceptual foundations of the physicalist agenda—including a proper explication of notions such as ‘causation', ‘determination', ‘realization’ or even ‘physicalism’ itself—must be settled before more specific problems (e.g. the problems of mental causation and human agency) can be satisfactorily addressed, a comprehensive philosophical reflection on the relationships between the various key concepts of the debate on physicalism is yet missing. This book presents a range of essays on the conceptual foundations of physicalism, mental causation and human agency, written by established and leading authors in the field.

Author : Alexander Carruth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192516132

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This book explores a range of traditional and contemporary metaphysical themes that figure in the writings of E. J. Lowe, whose powerful and influential work was still developing at the time of his death in 2015. During his forty-year career, he established himself as one of the world's leading philosophers, publishing eleven single-authored books and well over two hundred essays. His scholarship was strikingly broad, ranging from early modern philosophy to the interpretation of quantum mechanics. His most important and sustained contributions were to philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, and above all metaphysics. E. J. Lowe was committed to a systematic, realist, and scientifically informed neo-Aristotelean approach to philosophy. This volume presents a set of new essays by philosophers who share this commitment, addressing interrelated themes of his work. In particular, these papers focus upon three closely connected topics central not only to Lowe's work, but to contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of mind in general: ontology and categories of being; essence and modality, and the metaphysics of mental causation.