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Minds, causes, and mechanisms : a case against physicalism
- Title
- Minds, causes, and mechanisms : a case against physicalism / Josep E. Corbí and Josep L. Prades.
- Author
- Corbí, Josep E.
- Publication
- Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Prades, Josep L., 1954-
- Description
- xv, 265 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Minds, Causes, and Mechanisms: A Case Against Physicalism questions the internal consistency of causal physicalism, and vindicates a novel approach to mental causation. Through a series of original and detailed arguments, it is made clear that many difficulties in the physicalist picture derive from an implausible view about causality. An alternative approach is defended which shows how mental contents, as opposed to functional properties, may be causally efficacious without having an implementing mechanism."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Aristotelian Society monographs series ; 17
- Uniform Title
- Aristotelian Society monographs series ; 17.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-259) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Physicalism and the Mental: The Dominant View -- 2. An Initial Tension: Narrowness and Multiple Realization -- 3. Dispositions, Minimality, and Intrinsic Causal Powers -- 4. Ceteris Paribus Laws and the Autonomy of Nonbasic Properties -- 5. Strict Laws, Causes, and Background Conditions -- 6. Mental Causation.
- ISBN
- 0631218017
- 9780631218012
- 0631218025
- 9780631218029
- LCCN
- 99016131
- OCLC
- ocm41467806
- 41467806
- SCSB-9586507
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library