Causation is Macroscopic but not Irreducible
In E. J. Lowe & S. Gibb (eds.), The Ontology of Mental Causation (forthcoming)
| Abstract | In this paper I argue that causation is an essentially macroscopic phenomenon, and that mental causes are therefore capable of outcompeting their more specific physical realizers as causes of physical effects. But I also argue that any causes must be type-identical with physical properties, on pain of positing inexplicable physical conspiracies. I therefore allow macroscopic mental causation, but only when it is physically reducible. | |||||||||
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