Minds, Causes and Mechanisms: A Case Against Physicalism

* Provides a lucid review of recent developments by philosophers such as Block, Davidson, Fodor, Kim, Lewis, Mellor, Putnam, Schiffer, Shoemaker, and Yablo
* Questions the internal consistency of causal physicalism, and vindicates a novel approach to mental causation
* Makes clear, through a series of original and detailed arguments, that many difficulties in the physicalist picture derive from an implausible view of causality
* Defends an alternative conception of causality that allows us to see how mental contents may be causally efficacious without having an implementing mechanism.