Add to ORKGThe paper argues against systematic overdetermination being an acceptable solution to the problem of mental causation within a Humean counterfactual theory of causation. The truth-makers of the counterfactuals in question include laws of nature, and there are laws that support physical to physical counterfactuals, but no laws in the same sense that support mental to physical counterfactuals
Causal decision theory defines a rational action as the one that tends to cause the best outcomes. I...
Hume was correct in his critique of causation as understood by the New Science, a critique deadly to...
Causation is defined as a relation between facts: C causes E if and only if C and E are nomologicall...
The paper argues against systematic overdetermination being an acceptable solution to the problem of...
What is offered here is an interpretation of Hume’s views on causation. While it might not be litera...
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The paper argues for four claims: (1) The problem of mental causation and the argument for its solut...
Whether there exist causal relations between guns firing and people dying, between pedals pressed an...
Causal decision theory defines a rational action as the one that tends to cause the best outcomes. I...
This paper takes issue with a widely accepted view of mental causation. This is the view that mental...
The Exclusion Problem for mental causation suggests that there is a tension between the claim that t...
I present a thorough metaphysics of causal overdetermination, which yields new insights into mental ...
It is traditionally assumed that there is only one theory of causality in Hume's writings. In this a...
Causal decision theory defines a rational action as the one that tends to cause the best outcomes. I...
Hume was correct in his critique of causation as understood by the New Science, a critique deadly to...
Causation is defined as a relation between facts: C causes E if and only if C and E are nomologicall...
The paper argues against systematic overdetermination being an acceptable solution to the problem of...
What is offered here is an interpretation of Hume’s views on causation. While it might not be litera...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/87149/1/j.1933-1592.2010.00415.x.pd
The paper argues for four claims: (1) The problem of mental causation and the argument for its solut...
Whether there exist causal relations between guns firing and people dying, between pedals pressed an...
Causal decision theory defines a rational action as the one that tends to cause the best outcomes. I...
This paper takes issue with a widely accepted view of mental causation. This is the view that mental...
The Exclusion Problem for mental causation suggests that there is a tension between the claim that t...
I present a thorough metaphysics of causal overdetermination, which yields new insights into mental ...
It is traditionally assumed that there is only one theory of causality in Hume's writings. In this a...
Causal decision theory defines a rational action as the one that tends to cause the best outcomes. I...
Hume was correct in his critique of causation as understood by the New Science, a critique deadly to...
Causation is defined as a relation between facts: C causes E if and only if C and E are nomologicall...