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Grounding mental causation

Thomas KroedelMoritz Schulz

pp. 1909-1923

Résumé

This paper argues that the exclusion problem for mental causation can be solved by a variant of non-reductive physicalism that takes the mental not merely to supervene on, but to be grounded in, the physical. A grounding relation between events can be used to establish a principle that links the causal relations of grounded events to those of grounding events. Given this principle, mental events and their physical grounds either do not count as overdetermining physical effects, or they do so in a way that is not objectionable.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

(2016) Synthese 193 (6).

Pages: 1909-1923

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0820-3

Citation complète:

Kroedel Thomas, Schulz Moritz, 2016, Grounding mental causation. Synthese 193 (6), 1909-1923. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0820-3.