Seventy Years in Philosophy of Mind: An Overview, with Emphasis on the Issue of Mental Causation
Terence E. Horgan
Frontiers of Philosophy in China September 25, 2018 DOI: 10.3868/s030-007-018-0025-4 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Philosophy of mind |
| Key points | Surveys and discusses major developments in philosophy of mind over the past seventy years, emphasizing mental causation, and examines positions that share a broadly naturalistic or materialistic conception of human beings and mentality, including analytical behaviorism, identity theory, functionalism, multiple realizability, supervenience, the causal exclusion problem, phenomenal mental states, wide content, contextualist causal compatibilism, agentive phenomenology, and the agent-exclusion problem. |
Abstract
This paper is an opinionated overview of major developments in philosophy of mind during the past seventy years, with emphasis on the issue of mental causation. Its most prominent positions all embrace a broadly “naturalistic” or “materialistic” conception of human beings, and of mentalityand its place in nature. Included in this paper are discussions of analytical behaviorism, the psychophysical identity theory, functionalism, multiplerealizability and strong multiple realizability, supervenience, the causal exclusion problem, phenomenal mental states, wide content, contextualist causal compatibilism, agentive phenomenology, and the agent-exclusion problem.
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