Introduction: Mental Powers

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Topoi 39 (5):1017-1020 (2020)
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The metaphysics of powers (Shoemaker, 1980; Mumford, 2004; Marmodoro, 2009; Heil, 2012 among many others) is a promising conceptual framework that has been successfully put to use in many philosophical and scientific domains, but surprisingly its potential applications in the contemporary philosophy of mind are still under-investigated. This thematic issue aims to show that power ontology has implications concerning major questions in the contemporary philosophy of mind, such as: what is the metaphysical relationship between consciousness and the physical? Are phenomenal properties reducible to physical properties, fundamental, or emergent? How are we to explain notions such as belief, agency, and free will?

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Matteo Grasso
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Anna Marmodoro
Durham University

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From an ontological point of view.John Heil - 2003 - New York: Oxford University Press.
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Laws in nature.Stephen Mumford - 2004 - New York: Routledge.

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