Table of Contents

Preface Part I: Conceptual Foundations: Realization, Supervenience, and the Characterization of Physicalism ========= Introduction John Heil, Multiply Realized Properties Carl Gillett, Non-Reductive Realization and Non-Reductive Identity: What Physicalism Does Not Entail Gene Witmer, Multiple Realizability and Psychological Laws: Evaluating Kim's Challenge Paul Noordhof, Not Old ... But Not That New Either: Explicability, Emergence, and the Characterisation of Materialism John Bolender, A Farewell to Isms Part II: Overdetermination and the Causal Closure of the Physical =============== Introduction E.J. Lowe, Physical Causal Closure and the Invisibility of Mental Causation Andrew Melnyk, Some Evidence for Physicalism Barbara Montero, Varieties of Causal Closure Part III: Mental Causation and the Problem of Causal/Explanatory Exclusion =============== Introduction Peter Menzies, The Causal Efficacy of Mental States Paul Raymont, Kim on Closure, Exclusion and Nonreductive Physicalism Ausonio Marras, Methodological and Ontological Aspects of the Mental Causation Problem Part IV: Causality and Human Agency =========== Introduction Noa Latham, Are There Any Non-Motivating Reasons for Action? Ralf Stoecker, Climbers, Pigs and Wiggled Ears: The Problem of Waywardness in Action Theory Terence Horgan, John Tienson, George Graham, The Phenomenology of First-Person Agency Bibliography Notes on Contributors Name Index Subject Index

Reviews

"This collection is an essential volume for the libraries of professional philosophers and graduate students working analytic metaphysics or philosophy of mind." Justin D. Barnard, Metapsychology "An impressive collection" Network "This is a timely and well-conceived volume on a highly contested topic in analytic philosophy. Its perspicuous organization invites readers to think through the important issues surrounding the problem of mental causation. I recommend this exciting collection to anyone interested in metaphysics or the philosophy of mind." LYNNE RUDDER BAKER, University of Massachussetts at Amherst "Three and half centuries after Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia challenged Descartes to explain "how the mind of a man can determine the bodily spirits in producing voluntary actions," mental causation has re-emerged as a central problematic in the philosophy mind. The problem has far reaching implications - for the nature of psychological explanation, the relationship between psychology and physical theory, and the possibility of human agency. This timely collection by Walter and Heckmann brings together in one volume original essays by exciting new faces as well as some well-known participants in the debate. These works represent cutting-edge research on a variety of issues involving mental causation, and will be the focal point of discussion over the years to come." JAEGWON KIM, Brown University