Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Causation: A Non-Reductive Approach

The Nature of Causal Entities

Causation and Laws of Nature

Counterfactual Theory of Causation

Causation and Locality

Probability and Intervention

Causal Context and the Possibility of Causation in the Special Sciences

Summary

Chapter 2. The Concept of the Physical and the Overcoming of the Supervenience Theory

What Physicalism Is

Physicalism as a Contingent Theory

What Is It To Be Physical"'

Microphysical Supervenience as the Criterion for the Physical

The Empirical Failure of Microphysicalism

Consequences for Determining the Concept of the Physical

Finding a Solution to our Problem

Summary

Chapter 3. Emergentism as Type Macrophysicalism

The Idea of Ontological Emergence

Emergentism as Type Macrophysicalism

Reductive and Non-Reductive Microphysicalism

Property Dualism and Contingent Connections

Emergence and Metaphysical Dependence

Two Types of Ontological Emergence

Summary

Chapter 4. Non-Reductive Physicalism and the Problem of Causation in the Special Sciences

Supervenience and Multiple Realizability

The Causal Exclusion Argument

The Supervenience Argument

The Principle of Physical Causal Closure

The Exclusion Principle

The Interventionist Account of Exclusion

The Argument of Causal Individuation of Natural Kinds

Higher Causal Powers as Identical to Lower Causal Powers

The Subset Account of Realization

Summary

Chapter 5. Emergent, Downward, and Mental Causation

The Idea of Emergent Causation

The Principle of Physical Causal Closure of Emergentism

Emergent and Lower Level Causal Powers

Testing the Causal Relevance of Higher Level Properties

Emergent Causation at the Quantum Level

Mental Causation as Emergent Causation

Summary

Appendix: Functional Reduction of the Special Properties

Conclusion

References

Index

Filtros

Una perspectiva emergentista corporizada y ecológica de la mente humana

The emergence of mind in a physical world

The emergence of mind in a Physical world