Mental Causation: The Mind-Body Problem

Anthony Dardis

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Paper, 216 pages, 4 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14417-9
$26.50 / £18.50

September, 2008
Cloth, 216 pages, 4 illus.
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Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Why Mental Causation?

2. Immortality and the Body

3. Dualism and Automatism

4. Ghosts and Machines

5. Properties

6. Causation and Properties

7. Sunburn and Fragile Things

8. Supervenience and Levels

9. The Causal Relevance of Mental Properties

References

Index

Related Subjects

• Analytic Philosophy

About the Author

Anthony Dardis is professor of philosophy at Hofstra University. He has previously taught at Pomona College and the University of Georgia, and his work has been published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis , Acta Analytica , Dialogue , and Consciousness and Cognition .