Mental causes

&
American Philosophical Quarterly 28 (1):61-71 (1991)
Authors
John Heil
Washington University in St. Louis
Alfred Mele
Florida State University
Abstract
Our suspicion is that philosophers who tie the fate of agency to advances in cognitive science simultaneously underestimate that conception's tenacity and overestimate their ability to divine the course of empirical inquiry. For the present, however, we shall pretend that current ideas about what would be required for the scientific vindication of folk psychology are apt, and ask where this leaves the notion of agency. Our answer will be that it leaves that notion on the whole unaffected.
Keywords Belief  Causation  Desire  Intentionality  Metaphysics
Categories (categorize this paper)
Options
Edit this record
Mark as duplicate
Export citation
Find it on Scholar
Request removal from index
Revision history

Download options

PhilArchive copy


Upload a copy of this paper     Check publisher's policy     Papers currently archived: 60,842
External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server
Configure custom proxy (use this if your affiliation does not provide a proxy)
Through your library

References found in this work BETA

No references found.

Add more references

Citations of this work BETA

Cause and Essence.Stephen Yablo - 1992 - Synthese 93 (3):403 - 449.
The Supervenience Argument.Juhani Yli-Vakkuri & Ausonio Marras - 2008 - In S. Gozzano & F. Oralia (eds.), Universals, Tropes and the Philosophy of Mind. Ontos Verlag. pp. 101-132.
Causally Relevant Properties.David Braun - 1995 - Philosophical Perspectives 9 (AI, Connectionism and Philosophi):447-75.

View all 21 citations / Add more citations

Similar books and articles

Metaphysics and Mental Causation.Lynne Rudder Baker - 1993 - In John Heil & Alfred R. Mele (eds.), Mental Causation. Oxford University Press. pp. 75-96.
Mental Causation and Searle’s Impossible Conception of Unconscious Intentionality.Anthonie W. M. Meijers - 2000 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 8 (2):155-170.
John Heil and Alfred Mele's Mental Causation.Martin Rechenauer - 1994 - Erkenntnis 41 (1):121-125.
Representation: Readings In The Philosophy Of Mental Representation.Stuart Silvers (ed.) - 1988 - Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
The Experience of Mental Causation.Jakob Hohwy - 2004 - Behavior and Philosophy 32 (2):377 - 400.
Mental Causation and the Metaphysics of Causation.Michael Esfeld - 2007 - Erkenntnis 67 (2):207 - 220.
Against Derived Intentionality.David Cole - unknown
Mental Causation: Compulsion by Reason.Bill Brewer - 1995 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 69:237-253.

Analytics

Added to PP index
2009-01-28

Total views
105 ( #99,473 of 2,438,903 )

Recent downloads (6 months)
4 ( #167,421 of 2,438,903 )

How can I increase my downloads?

Downloads

My notes



Home | New books and articles | Bibliographies | Philosophy journals | Discussions | Article Index | About PhilPapers | API | Contact us | Code of conduct

CDP Phiosophy Documentation Center
PhilPapers logo by Andrea Andrews and Meghan Driscoll.
This site uses cookies and Google Analytics (see our terms & conditions for details regarding the privacy implications).

Use of this site is subject to terms & conditions.
All rights reserved by The PhilPapers Foundation

Page generated Tue Jul 27 05:32:18 2021 on philpapers-web-84c8c567c7-kx665
Debug information

cache stats: hit=14816, miss=9914, save=
autohandler : 319 ms
called component : 309 ms
entry : 308 ms
entry_basics : 123 ms
entry-header : 100 ms
menu : 97 ms
similar_entries : 63 ms
citations-citations : 54 ms
entry_stats : 28 ms
get_entry : 12 ms
entry-cats : 12 ms
save cache object : 11 ms
entry-links : 6 ms
entry-side : 5 ms
prepCit : 2 ms
retrieve cache object : 2 ms
entry_stats_query : 2 ms
citations-references : 1 ms
entry_chapters : 1 ms
init renderer : 0 ms
entry-profiles : 0 ms
setup : 0 ms
writeLog : 0 ms
auth : 0 ms
entry-buttons : 0 ms
stat_db : 0 ms


pid: 195835