Mental Manipulations and the Problem of Causal Exclusion

Authors

  • Lawrence Shapiro

Keywords:

Causal exclusion, Interventionism, Multiple realization, Non-reductive physicalism

Abstract

Christian List and Peter Menzies [2009] have looked to interventionist theories of causation for an answer to Jaegwon Kim’s causal exclusion problem. Important to their response is the idea of realization-insensitivity. However, this idea becomes mired in issues concerning multiple realization, leaving it unable to ful?l its promise to block exclusion. After explaining why realization-insensitivity fails as a solution to Kim’s problem, I look to interventionism to describe a di?erent kind of solution.

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Published

2013-09-14

How to Cite

SHAPIRO, L. Mental Manipulations and the Problem of Causal Exclusion. Controvérsia (UNISINOS) - ISSN 1808-5253, São Leopoldo, v. 7, n. 1, p. 78–96, 2013. Disponível em: https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/controversia/article/view/5220. Acesso em: 30 apr. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2011)

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