Table of Contents

Part 1 Davidson, anomalous monism and mental caustion: thinking causes, Donald Audi; can supervenience and "non-strict laws" save anomalous monism?, Jaegwon Kim; Davidson's response to the charge of epiphenominalism, Brian P. McLaughlin; Davidson's thinking causes, Ernest Sosa. Part 2 Causation and explanation: mental causation - sustaining and dynamic, Robert Audi; metaphysics and mental causation, Lynne Rudder Baker; mind-body causation and explanatory practice, Tyler Burge; mental events such as structuring causes of behaviour, Fred Dretske; the union theory and anti-individualism, Ted Honderich; agency and causal explanation, Jennifer Hornsby; the non-reductive's troubles with mental causation, Jaegwon Kim; explanation in biopsychology, Ruth Garrett Millikan; who's in charge here?, and who's doing all the work?, Robert van Gulick. Part 3 Content: some content in narrow, Frank Jackson and Philip Pettit; object-dependent thoughts - a case of superficial necessity but deep contingency?, H.W. Noonan; abilities, concepts and externalism, Ernest Sosa.

Reviews

`since its contributors are of the leading figures who deal with these issues, anyone interested in mental causation may benefit a lot from reading it.'
Amir Horowitz, Philosophia
'The essays are largely nontechnical and make an important contribution to current work in the philosophy of mind. They can benefit the work of cognitive psychologists, philosophers, and other theorists working on topics in philosophical psychology.'
P.K. Moser, Loyola University of Chicago, Choice, Sep '93
'The volume presents a quite encompassing overview on the state of the debate and is to be recommended to everyone interested in the topic.'
Martin Rechenauer, Erkenntnis 41: 1994
`Excellent collection of articles.'
Proto Soziologie
`A welcome collection of sixteen previously unpublished papers that explore the many dimensions of the questions whether, and if so how, mind matters ... Taken together, the papers represent an invigorating diversity of vantage point and assumption. They effectively display the intricacy of the interconnections amongst topics that are mishandled if taken as insulated from one another.'
Philosophical Psychology
`A welcome collection of sixteen previously unpublished papers that explore the many dimensions of the questions whether, and if so how, mind matters ... Taken together, the papers represent an invigorating diversity of vantage point and assumption. They effectively display the intricacy of the interconnections amongst topics that are mishandled if taken as insulated from one another.'
Philosophical Psychology
`One of the merits of a book such as Mental Causation for a psychologist ... is that it can sharpen one's appreciation of the ambiguities and hidden asumptions in the psychological investigation of mind and behavior ... this volume contains strong defenses of the legitimacy of mentalistic explanations of behavior in scientific psychology.'
Peter A. White, University of Wales College of Cardiff
`a welcome collection of sixteen previously unpublished papers that explore the many dimensions of the questions whether, and if so how, mind matters ... the papers represent an invigorating diversity of vantage point and assumption. They effectively display the intricacy of the interconnections amongst topics that are mishandled if taken as insulated from one another.'
John Bricke, University of Kansas