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Understanding Mental Causation proposes a new, non-relational theory of mental causation. The volume explains where the leading contemporary theories go astray, and how the theory presented solves critical problems for philosophers of mind and action. Denying that causation is always a relation, and holding instead that causation is a general type of process which substances engage in, the author argues that even though it should not be understood as a relation, there is something worthy of the name ‘mental causation’ necessarily on display when human agents act intentionally.
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