Mental Causation: The Mind-Body Problem

Columbia University Press (2008)
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Anthony Dardis shows how to unravel the knot. He traces its early appearance in the history of philosophical inquiry, specifically in the work of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and T. H. Huxley.

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9780231144162   0231144164   0231144172   9780231144179   9780231513517

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10.7312/dard14416
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Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Why Mental Causation?

2. Immortality and the Body

3. Dualism and Automatism

4. Ghosts and Machines

5. Properties

6. Causation and Properties

7. Sunburn and Fragile Th ings

8. Supervenience and Levels

9. The Causal Relevance of Mental Properties

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