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    • Breaking Out of the Physicalist Triad

    Andrea White

    Chapter from the book: White, A. 2024. Understanding Mental Causation.

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    Drawing on arguments presented in philosophy of action, Chapter 4 argues against the physicalist/event-causalist description of agency which is entailed by the three mutually-supporting views discussed in the previous three chapters.

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    philosophy of action 

    Keywords:

    animal action refrainment deviant causal chains the disappearing agent intentional action causal theory of action 

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    White, A. 2024. Breaking Out of the Physicalist Triad. In: White, A, Understanding Mental Causation. York: White Rose University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22599/White.e
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    Published on Dec. 17, 2024

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    https://doi.org/10.22599/White.e