Mental Causation Investigating The Minds Powers In A Natural World Jens Harbecke by Jens Harbecke 9783938793947, 3938793945 instant download after payment.

This work systematically investigates a range of solutions for the philosophical problem of mental causation. The premises constituting the problem are analyzed, then a survey is developed of the most popular theories on mental causation. Harbecke demonstrates why most of these canonical solutions must be considered deficient. In a third part, the "new compatibilists" approach to mental causation is explored, which is characterized by assertion of a non-identity-but-non-distinctness principle. The last part offers an alternative solution to the problem. On the basis of a certain set of counterfactual conditionals, which are jointly taken to provide a definition of "causal proportionality" that improves the existing definitions, it is shown that a specific, and hitherto widely neglected, version of causal overdeterminationism must be considered the most successful solution to the problem.