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SUMMARY:The solution to the problem of mental causation - Tim Crane (Facul
 ty of Philosophy)
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CONTACT:Alex Broadbent
DESCRIPTION:For some time it has been thought that non-reductive theories 
 of the mind face a special problem of mental causation and that this probl
 em needs to be solved by constructing metaphysical theories of the relatio
 nship between mental and physical entities (for example\, theories of the 
 'realisation' relation) or of the relata of causation. In this paper I arg
 ue that this problem has a straightforward solution once the dubious assum
 ptions which underlie it are revealed. The solution is neutral between phy
 sicalist and 'emergentist' views of the mind\, and is also neutral between
  theories of causation.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, History and Philosophy of Science\, Department o
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