Please wait a minute...
Frontiers of Philosophy in China

ISSN 1673-3436

ISSN 1673-355X(Online)

CN 11-5743/B

邮发代号 80-983

Frontiers of Philosophy in China  2011, Vol. 6 Issue (3): 402-425   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-011-0147-1
  research-article 本期目录
Intralevel Mental Causation
Intralevel Mental Causation
Andrei A. BUCKAREFF()
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Marist College, New York 12601, USA
 全文: PDF(677 KB)   HTML
Abstract

This paper identifies and critiques a theory of mental causation defended by some proponents of nonredutive physicalism that I call “intralevelism.” Intralevelist theories differ in their details. On all versions, the causal outcome of the manifestation of physical properties is physical and the causal outcome of the manifestation of mental properties is mental. Thus, mental causation on this view is intralevel mental to mental causation. This characterization of mental causation as intralevel is taken to insulate nonreductive physicalism from some objections to nonreductive physicalism, including versions of the exclusion argument. This paper examines some features of three recent versions of intralevelism defended by John Gibbons, Markus Schlosser, and Amie Thomasson. This paper shows that the distinctive problems faced by these three representative versions of intralevelism suggest that the intralevelist strategy does not provide a viable solution to the exclusion problem.

Key wordsmind    mental causation    nonreductive physicalism    metaphysics    action
出版日期: 2011-09-05
Corresponding Author(s): Andrei A. BUCKAREFF,Email:andrei.buckareff@marist.edu   
 引用本文:   
. Intralevel Mental Causation[J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2011, 6(3): 402-425.
Andrei A. BUCKAREFF. Intralevel Mental Causation. Front Phil Chin, 2011, 6(3): 402-425.
 链接本文:  
https://academic.hep.com.cn/fpc/CN/10.1007/s11466-011-0147-1
https://academic.hep.com.cn/fpc/CN/Y2011/V6/I3/402
Viewed
Full text


Abstract

Cited

  Shared   
  Discussed