The Supervenience Argument, Overdetermination, and Causal Drainage: Assessing Kim's Master Argument
Autor(en): | Walter, Sven | Stichwörter: | Causal Drainage; Causal Exclusion; Ethics; Jaegwon Kim; Mental Causation; METAPHYSICS; Overdetermination; Psychology; Psychology, Multidisciplinary; Social Sciences - Other Topics; Supervenience Argument | Erscheinungsdatum: | 2008 | Herausgeber: | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | Journal: | PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY | Volumen: | 21 | Ausgabe: | 5 | Startseite: | 673 | Seitenende: | 696 | Zusammenfassung: | This paper examines Jaegwon Kim's Supervenience Argument ( SA) against nonreductive physicalism, concentrating on Kim's response to two of the most important objections against the SA: First, the Overdetermination Argument, according to which Kim has no convincing argument against the possibility that mental causation might be a case of genuine or systematic overdetermination; second, the Generalization Argument, according to which the SA would entail that causation at any level gives way to causation at the next lower level, thereby leading to an untenable all-encompassing epiphenomenalism. It is argued that as of yet, Kim has failed to develop a coherent overall position, since various moves he makes in response to these criticisms are strangely at odds with other parts of his philosophical position. |
ISSN: | 09515089 | DOI: | 10.1080/09515080802415985 |
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