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portada Causing Actions
Type
Physical Book
Year
2002
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
ISBN
0199252769
ISBN13
9780199252763

Causing Actions

Paul M. Pietroski; P. M. Pietroski (Author) · Oxford University Press · Paperback

Causing Actions - Paul M. Pietroski; P. M. Pietroski

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Synopsis "Causing Actions "

Thoughts often cause deeds. Actions are done for reasons. But do actions and their mental causes also have descriptions that do not involve reasons? Various considerations can make it seem that human mental events must be biochemical events. Paul Pietroski, however, defends a non-Cartesian form of dualism. Actions and their rationalizing causes belong to an autonomous mental domain-although this autonomy is compatible with the supervenience of the mental on the non-mental. On this view, some bodily motions have rationalizing causes distinct from any biochemical causes; Pietroski argues that this is not an objectionable form of overdetermination. Central to his account is his proposed treatment of ceteris paribus laws, their role in explanation, and how such laws are related to singular causal claims. Pietroski also connects these issues to semantic questions arising from discussions of action reports and belief ascriptions. All philosophers interested in mind or causation will be intrigued by his new theory.

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