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Determinables, Determinates, and Causal Relevance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Sven Walter
Sven Walter*
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University of Osnabrück Germany
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Mental causation, our mind's ability to causally affect the course of the world, is part and parcel of our ‘manifest image’ of the world. That there is mental causation is denied by virtually no one. How there can be such a thing as mental causation, however, is far from obvious. In recent years, discussions about the problem of mental causation have focused on Jaegwon Kim's so-called Causal Exclusion Argument, according to which mental events are ‘screened off’ or ‘preempted’ by physical events unless mental causation is a genuine case of overdetermination or mental properties are straightforwardly reducible to physical properties.

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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 217 - 243
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Copyright © The Authors 2007

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