Mental Causation - A Counterfactual Theory

This book presents a comprehensive account of how the mind causes things to happen in the physical world. It will be of interest to a range of readers in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. This book is also available as Open Access.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Theories of the mind and theories of causation; 2. Mental causation by counterfactual dependence; 3. Mental causation by causal modelling; 4. The exclusion problem; 5. Conclusion.

About the author

Thomas Kroedel is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Universität Hamburg. He has published articles in journals including Analysis, Noûs and The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Summary

This book presents a comprehensive account of how the mind causes things to happen in the physical world. It will be of interest to a range of readers in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. This book is also available as Open Access.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Kroedel, Thomas (Universitat Hamburg) Kroedel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108487146
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48714-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Philosophy of Mind, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy: logic