Kim on Causation and Mental Causation

E-Logos Electronic Journal for Philosophy 25 (2):22–47 (2018)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Jaegwon Kim’s views on mental causation and the exclusion argument are evaluated systematically. Particular attention is paid to different theories of causation. It is argued that the exclusion argument and its premises do not cohere well with any systematic view of causation.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.18267/j.e-logos.458

Other Versions

reprint Raatikainen, Panu (2018) "Kim on Causation and Mental Causation". E-Logos 25(2):22-47

Links

PhilArchive

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Ontological indeterminism undermines Kim's Exclusion Argument.Peter Ulric Tse - manuscript
Conspectus of Jaegwon Kim’s paper, 'Mental Causation and Consciousness: Our Two Mind-body Problems'.Peter Sjöstedt-H. -
The causal exclusion puzzle.David Pineda - 2002 - European Journal of Philosophy 10 (1):26-42.
Embedded cognition and mental causation: Setting empirical Bounds on metaphysics. [REVIEW]Fred Keijzer & Maurice Schouten - 2007 - Synthese 158 (1):109 - 125.
What's Wrong With Nonreductive Physicalism? The Exclusion Problem Reconsidered.Kevin Morris - 2023 - ProtoSociology 39:19-34.
The supervenience argument against non-reductive physicalism.Andrew Russo - 2011 - In Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
God and Mental Causation.Daniel Lim - 2015 - Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
The Supervenience Argument.Juhani Yli-Vakkuri & Ausonio Marras - 2008 - In Simone Gozzano & Francesco Orilia (eds.), Universals, Tropes and the Philosophy of Mind. Ontos Verlag. pp. 101-132.
Mind and the Causal Exclusion Problem.Dwayne Moore - 2018 - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Analytics

Added to PP
2019-01-24

Downloads
2,161 (#5,643)

6 months
321 (#6,184)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Panu Raatikainen
Tampere University

Citations of this work

Add more citations

References found in this work

A Materialist Theory of the Mind.D. M. Armstrong - 1968 - New York: Routledge. Edited by Ted Honderich.
A System of Logic.John Stuart Mill - 1829/2002 - Longman.
Physicalism, or Something Near Enough.Jaegwon Kim - 2005 - Princeton University Press.

View all 108 references / Add more references