Philosophy 239
Mental Causation
Asst. Prof James Pryor
Dept. of Philosophy
Syllabus
Readings will be added as the term progresses. But these are the main pieces we will look at.
Introduction
Readings
(for Sept. 24)
Kim,
Philosophy of Mind
Ch. 6
Individuating Events and States
Readings
Optional:
Burge, "Mind-Body Causation and Explanatory Practice," esp. sections 1 and 3
Regularity vs. Counterfactual Models of Causation
Readings
Lewis, "Causation"
Additional Reading
Ned Hall's Manuscript
Exclusion Argument
Readings
Kim, "Mechanism, Purpose, and Explanatory Exclusion"
Kim, "Supervenient Causation"
Optional:
Kim, "Myth of Nonreductive Materialism," section 5
Optional:
Kim, "The Nonreductivist's Troubles with Mental Causation," section 6
Kim,
Philosophy of Mind
Ch. 6 (again)
Optional:
Burge, "Mind-Body Causation and Explanatory Practice," esp. sections 1 and 3
Additional Reading
Malcolm, "The Conceivability of Mechanism"
Yablo, "Mental Causation"
Methodological Solipsism and Narrow Content
Readings
Kim, "Psychophysical Supervenience"
Block, "Can the Mind Change the World?", esp. section 4 and footnote on Lepore and Loewer
LePore & Loewer, "More on Making Mind Matter," esp. section 1 and the discussion of supervenient causation in section 2
Burge, "Individualism and Psychology," section 1 only
Additional Reading
LePore & Loewer, "Solipsistic Semantics"
Stalnaker, "Narrow Content"
Stalnaker, "On What's in the Head"
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