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1Mental CausationIn Brian McLaughlin (ed.), Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Philosophy of Mind, Macmillan. 2016.This is an introduction to mental causation. It is written primarily for students new to the topic. The chapter is organized around the following argument: P1. Everything we do is caused by biochemical processes within our bodies and brains. P2. If everything we do is caused by biochemical processes within our bodies and brains, then nothing we do has a mental cause. C. Therefore, nothing we do has a mental cause.
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Areas of Specialization
| Metaphysics |
| Philosophy of Mind |
Areas of Interest
| General Philosophy of Science |
| Asian Philosophy |