Intralevel mental causation |
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Authors: | Andrei A Buckareff |
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Institution: | Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Marist College, New York 12601, USA |
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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. |
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Keywords: | mind mental causation nonreductive physicalism metaphysics action |
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