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Zusatztext This book is a welcome contribution to the method of approaching mental causation as a family of related metaphysical problems. Informationen zum Autor Sophie Gibb is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Durham. She is the author of many journal papers and essays in edited collections, and was awarded the Dialectica essay prize for in 2007. E. J. Lowe is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham, and has published over 200 articles on metaphysics, the philosophy of mind and action, the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of language, and early modern philosophy. His books include The Possibility of Metaphysics (OUP, 1998), A Survey of Metaphysics (OUP, 2002), The Four-Category Ontology (OUP, 2005), and Personal Agency (OUP, 2008).R. D. Ingthorsson is a researcher at Lund University in Sweden, and has published articles in The European Journal of Philosophy, Metaphysica, Axiomathes, and the Sats-Nordic Journal of Philosophy. Klappentext This book demonstrates the importance of ontology for a central debate in philosophy of mind. Mental causation seems an obvious aspect of the world. But it is hard to understand how it can happen unless we get clear about what the entities involved in the process are. An international team of contributors presents new work on this problem. Zusammenfassung This book demonstrates the importance of ontology for a central debate in philosophy of mind. Mental causation seems an obvious aspect of the world. But it is hard to understand how it can happen unless we get clear about what the entities involved in the process are. An international team of contributors presents new work on this problem. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: John Heil: Mental Causation 2: Sydney Shoemaker: Physical Realization without Preemption 3: Peter Menzies: Mental Causation in the Physical World 4: Paul Noordhof: Mental Causation: Ontology and Patterns of Variation 5: David Papineau: Causation is Macroscopic but not Irreducible 6: E. J. Lowe: Substance Causation, Powers, and Human Agency 7: Jonathan D. Jacobs and Timothy O'Connor: Agent Causation in a Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics 8: Sophie Gibb: Mental Causation and Double Prevention 9: David Robb: The Identity Theory as a Solution to the Exclusion Problem 10: Peter Simons: Continuant Causation, Fundamentality, and Freedom 11: Steinvör Thöll Árnadóttir and Tim Crane: There is no Exclusion Problem Index ...
