TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gibb,S.C.
AU  - Lowe,E.J.
AU  - Ingthorsson,Rögnvaldur D.
TI  - Mental causation and ontology
SN  - 9780199603770
AV  - BD418.3 .M455 2013
U1  - ARCH YNDC 128.2 G437M 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford, U.K.
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Philosophy of mind
KW  - Causation
KW  - Ontology
KW  - Mind and body
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; S.C. Gibb --; pt. 1; Levels of being, properties, and mental causation; Mental causation; John Heil; Physical realization without preemption; Sydney Shoemaker; Mental causation in the physical world; Peter Menzies; Mental causation; ontology and patterns of variation; Paul Noordhof; Causation is macroscopic but not irreducible; David Papineau --; pt. 2; Causal relata, substances, and powers; Substance causation, powers, and human agency; E.J. Lowe; Agent causation in a neo-Aristotelian metaphysics; Jonathan D. Jacobs and Timothy O'Connor; Mental causation and double prevention; S.C. Gibb; The identity theory as a solution to the exclusion problem; David Robb; Continuant causation, fundamentality, and freedom; Peter Simons; There is no exclusion problem; Steinvör Thöll Árnadóttir and Tim Crane
N2  - 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. In particular, they examine the nature of causes and effects, the nature of properties, and the nature of the causal relation. Book jacket
ER  -