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Daniel Lim

Duke Kunshan University
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  • Duke Kunshan University
    Associate Professor
Cambridge University
Faculty of Philosophy
PhD, 2011
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Religion
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics
General Philosophy of Science
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    God and Mental Causation
    Springer. 2015.
    This book lies at the intersection of philosophy of religion and philosophy of mind. It combines issues regarding divine action and mental causation. In particular, by using Jaegwon Kim's Causal Exclusion Argument as a foil, it explores possible ways of making sense of divine action in relation to some recent non-reductive physicalist strategies for vindicating mental causation. These insights are then applied to an argument for the existence of God based on the nature of phenomenal conscious…Read more
    Arguments for Theism, MiscThe Exclusion ProblemCausal OverdeterminationCausal Occasionalism
  •  105
    Can a Dualist Adopt Bennett's Strategy?
    Philosophical Forum 45 (3): 251-271. 2014.
    Karen Bennett (2003, 2008) has argued for and developed a way of defending a non-reductive physicalist solution to Jaegwon Kim's Causal Exclusion Argument. She argues that mental and physical causes can both be sufficient causes of the same event without being classified as overdetermining causes. This strategy, however, is only available to physicalists. I argue that dualists can adopt or adapt her strategy.
    The Exclusion Problem
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    Why Not Overdetermination?
    Heythrop Journal 54 (2): 668-677. 2013.
    One way of responding to Jaegwon Kim's Causal Exclusion Argument is to argue that the relevant mental and physical properties overdetermine their effects. Insofar as this is a reasonable way of securing mental causation this presents a viable framework for understanding how divine and non-divine causes can conspire to bring about events in the world.
    Philosophy of ReligionCausal OverdeterminationThe Exclusion Problem