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Causal Exclusion Problem (Moore, Dwayne)
Causal Exclusion Problem
Autor Moore, Dwayne
Verlag Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Sprache Englisch
Mediaform PDF
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
Seiten 0 S.
Artikelnummer 23579254
ISBN 978-1-4539-1096-2
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Kopierschutz DRM Adobe
CHF 97.75
Zusammenfassung

In The Causal Exclusion Problem, the popular strategy of abandoning any one of the principles constituting the causal exclusion problem is considered, but ultimately rejected. The metaphysical foundations undergirding the causal exclusion problem are then explored, revealing that the causal exclusion problem cannot be dislodged by undermining its metaphysical foundations - as some are in the habit of doing. Finally, the significant difficulties associated with the bevy of contemporary nonreductive solutions, from supervenience to emergentism, are expanded upon. While conducting this survey of contemporary options, however, two novel approaches are introduced, both of which may resolve the causal exclusion problem from within a nonreductive physicalist paradigm.
The Causal Exclusion Problem, which relentlessly motivates the vexing causal exclusion problem and exhaustively surveys its metaphysical assumptions and contemporary responses, is ideal for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course in the philosophy of mind.

Dwayne Moore received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Guelph-Laurier-McMaster Tri-University program, where his dissertation centered on the causal exclusion problem. He has published numerous articles in the Philosophy of Mind, and, more specifically, on the causal exclusion problem. He is currently Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Trent University.