Grounding Mental Causation

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Abstract

This paper argues that the exclusion problem for mental causation can be solved by a variant of non-reductive physicalism that takes the mental not merely to supervene on, but to be grounded in, the physical. A grounding relation between events can be used to establish a principle that links the causal relations of grounded events to those of grounding events. Given this principle, mental events and their physical grounds either do not count as overdetermining physical effects, or they do so in a way that is not objectionable.

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OriginalspracheDeutsch
Seiten (von - bis)1909–1923
Seitenumfang14
Fachzeitschrift Synthese : an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science
Jahrgang193
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 15 Juli 2016
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

Scopus 84969884798
ORCID /0000-0002-9962-2074/work/142234597

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