Minds, Causes and Mechanisms: A Case Against PhysicalismISBN: 978-0-631-21802-9
Paperback
288 pages
February 2000, Wiley-Blackwell
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* 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.
* 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.