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Mental Causation and Ontology (Hardcover)
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Mental Causation and Ontology (Hardcover)
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An international team of contributors presents new work on the
importance of ontology for a central debate in philosophy of mind.
Mental causation has been a hotly disputed topic in recent years,
with reductive and non-reductive physicalists vying with each other
and with dualists over how to accommodate, or else to challenge,
two widely accepted metaphysical principles-the principle of the
causal closure of the physical domain and the principle of causal
non-overdetermination-which together appear to support reductive
physicalism, despite the latter's lack of intuitive appeal. Current
debate about these matters appears to have reached something of an
impasse, prompting the question of why this should be so. One
possibility is that, while this debate makes extensive use of
ontological vocabulary-by talking, for instance, of substances,
events, states, properties, powers, and relations-relatively little
attempt has been made within the debate itself to achieve either
clarity or agreement about what, precisely, such terms should be
taken to mean. The debate has become somewhat detached from broader
developments in metaphysics and ontology, which have lately been
proceeding apace, providing us with an increasingly rich and
refined set of ontological categories upon which to draw, as well
as a much deeper understanding of how they are related to one
another. In this volume, leading metaphysicians and philosophers of
mind reflect afresh upon the problem of mental causation in the
light of some of these recent developments, with a view to making
new headway with one of the most challenging and seemingly
intractable issues in contemporary philosophy.
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