In Sven Walter & Heinz-Dieter Heckmann (eds.), Physicalism and Mental Causation. Imprint Academic. pp. 155-172 (2003)
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This paper presents an irreducibly inductive argument for physicalism based on the causal closure of the physical (for which it argues), and defends it against various detractors.
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| Keywords | Physicalism Causal closure Materialism Mental Causation Dualism Causal Overdetermination Causal Argument |
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