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Mental Causation - Investigating the Mind's Powers in a Natural World (Hardcover) Loot Price: R5,404
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Mental Causation - Investigating the Mind's Powers in a Natural World (Hardcover): Jens Harbecke

Mental Causation - Investigating the Mind's Powers in a Natural World (Hardcover)

Jens Harbecke

Series: Metaphysical Research

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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."

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Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of origin: Germany
Series: Metaphysical Research
Release date: April 2008
First published: 2008
Authors: Jens Harbecke
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-032449-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
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LSN: 3-11-032449-0
Barcode: 9783110324495

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