Mental causation as multiple causation |
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| Authors: | Thomas Kroedel |
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| Institution: | (1) Merton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 4JD, UK |
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| Abstract: | The paper argues that mental causation can be explained from the sufficiency of counterfactual dependence for causation together
with relatively weak assumptions about the metaphysics of mind. If a physical event counterfactually depends on an earlier
physical event, it also counterfactually depends on, and hence is caused by, a mental event that correlates with (or supervenes
on) this earlier physical event, provided that this correlation (or supervenience) is sufficiently modally robust. This account
of mental causation is consistent with the overdetermination of physical events by mental events and other physical events,
but does not entail it.
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| Keywords: | Mental causation Counterfactual theories of causation Overdetermination Psycho-physical correlation Supervenience |
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