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dc.contributor.authorKim, Jaegwon
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-07T19:31:29Z
dc.date.available2021-09-07T19:31:29Z
dc.date.issued2000-01-01
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/3201
dc.description.abstractMental events enter into causal relations with bodily events. The philosophical task is to explain how this is possible. Descartes’ dualism of mental and material substances ultimately founders on the impossibility of pairing mental events with physical events as causes and effects. This is what I have called “the pairing problem.” Many contemporary views also fail to explain mental causation. In the end, we are left with a dilemma. If mental phenomena are irreducible to physical phenomena, then mental phenomena lose their causal efficacy. However, if mental phenomena are reducible to physical phenomena, then casts doubt on the very existence of mental phenomena.
dc.subjectPhilosophy Of Mind
dc.subjectMental Causation
dc.subjectMind-Body Problem
dc.titleHow Can My Mind Move My Limbs? Mental Causation from Descartes to Contemporary Physicalism
dc.typearticle
refterms.dateFOA2021-09-07T19:31:29Z
dc.description.institutionSUNY Brockport
dc.source.peerreviewedTRUE
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.description.publicationtitlePhilosophic Exchange
dc.contributor.organizationBrown University
dc.languate.isoen_US


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    Philosophic Exchange is published by the Center for Philosophic Exchange, at the College at Brockport. The Center for Philosophic Exchange was founded by SUNY Chancellor Samuel Gould in 1969 to conduct a continuing program of philosophical inquiry, relating to both academic and public issues. Each year the Center hosts four speakers, and each speaker gives a public lecture that is intended for a general audience. These lectures are then published in this journal.

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