Questions about the existence and nature of mental causation are prominent in
contemporary discussions of the mind and human agency. Originally, the problem of mental …

In this paper I will revisit an argument that I have called" the supervenience argument"; it is
sometimes called" the exclusion argument" in the literature. 2 I want to reconsider several …

The problem of mental causation is essentially coeval with the mind–body problem.
Descartes arguably invented the latter when, in Meditation 2, he asked 'But what then am …

In his recent book, Jaegwon Kim argues thatpsychophysical supervenience
withoutpsychophysical reduction renders mentalcausationunintelligible'. He also claimsthat …

This book presents a range of essays on the conceptual foundations of physicalism, mental
causation and human agency. Physicalism--the thesis that everything there is in the world …

When we say that one thing caused another in virtue of certain of its properties, we attribute
a case of property causation. A necessary condition for property causation is that an …

This paper examines Jaegwon Kim's Supervenience Argument (SA) against nonreductive
physicalism, concentrating on Kim's response to two of the most important objections against …

The aim of this paper is to show that Kim's ‚supervenience argument'is at best inconclusive
and so fails to provide an adequate challenge to nonreductive physicalism. I shall argue …

This book addresses themes in the newly emerging discipline of philosophy of chemistry, in
particular issues in connection with discussions in general philosophy of science on natural …

Mental and neural states are related to one another by vertical (synchronic) interlevel
relations and by horizontal (diachronic) intralevel relations. For particular choices of such …