Mental Causation and the Metaphysics of MindNeil Campbell Broadview Press, 2. 1. 2003 - Počet stran: 304 Since Descartes’s division of the human subject into mental and physical components in the seventeenth century, there has been a great deal of discussion about how—indeed, whether or not—our mental states bring about our physical behavior. Through historical and contemporary readings, this collection explores this lively and important issue. In four parts, this anthology introduces the problem of mental causation, explores the debate sparked by Donald Davidson’s anomalous monism, examines Frank Jackson’s knowledge argument for the view that qualia are epiphenomenal, and investigates attempts to employ the controversial concept of supervenience to explain mental causation. |
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Introduction | 9 |
Sixth Meditation | 17 |
Passions of the Soul | 29 |
On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata | 44 |
The AutomatonTheory | 70 |
Mental Events | 85 |
Actions Reasons and Humean Causes | 102 |
Hess on Reasons and Causes | 108 |
Thinking Causes | 134 |
Can Supervenience and NonStrict Laws Save | 148 |
Epiphenomenal Qualia | 159 |
Physicalism and the Cognitive Role of Acquaintance | 176 |
Physicalism and Phenomenal Properties | 193 |
Epiphenomenal Qualia? | 207 |
Epiphenomenal and Supervenient Causation | 240 |
MindBody Interaction and Supervenient Causation | 255 |