E-LOGOS 2018, 25(2):22-47 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.458

Kim on Causation and Mental Causation

Panu Raatikainen
University of Tampere, Finland

Keywords: Mental causation, exclusion argument, non-reductive physicalism, causation, Jaegwon Kim

Jaegwon Kim's views on mental causation and the exclusion argument are evaluated systematically. Particular attention is paid to different theories of causation. It is argued that the exclusion argument and its premises do not cohere well with any systematic view of causation.

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