Mental Causation

by John Heil

Book Overview

Common sense and philosophical tradition agree that mind makes a difference. What we do depends not only on how our bodies are put together, but also on what we think. Explaining how mind can make a difference has proved challenging, however. Some have urged that the project faces an insurmountable dilemma: either we concede that mentalistic explanations of behavior have only a pragmatic standing or we abandon our conception of the physical domain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019823564X
• ISBN13: 9780198235644
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"