Mental Causation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10694561 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Yablo (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245 |
| Publication date | 1992-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2185535 |
| OpenAlex | W4231686213 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 195 |
Analytic philosophy · Causation · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Philosophy · Psychology
What Counts as a Stronger Cause? Six Meanings of Causal Importance in the Social Sciences
From Metaphysics to Ethics
The red and the real
Mental Causation
Physicalism Deconstructed
Boundaries of the Mind
Physicalism and Alternatives
Mental Causation
Causation
Value, Reality, and Desire
The Nature of Normativity
Objects and Persons
Knowledge and its Limits
Thinking about Consciousness
Simulating Minds
The Limits of Self-Awareness
Causation in biology
No Work for a Theory of Grounding
Spatio-Temporal Coincidence and the Grounding Problem
Identifying privative causes
Alexander's Dictum and the Reality of Familiar Objects
Ambiguity and explanation
Causal exclusion and the limits of proportionality
Aristotle on Accidental Causation
A Communication‐First Account of Explanation
How not to argue against AI thought
Armchair Evaluative Knowledge and Sentimental Perceptualism
Our “Cognitive Limitations” and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
We the People
Dualist Approaches to Mental Causation
From the agent’s point of view
Why difference-making mental causation does not save free will
Some Spanners in the Works of Grounding Mechanisms Removed
Proportionality, Abstract Causation, and the Exclusion Problem
A Causal Exclusion Problem for Knowledge-First Epistemology
An Emergentist Approach to Phenomenal Causality
List and Menzies on High‐Level Causation
Experiments on causal exclusion
Proportionality, Determinate Intervention Effects, and High-Level Causation
Are Phenomenal Properties Determinables of Physical Determinates? A Response to Wilson
Towards a Deflationary Truthmakers Account of Social Groups
Spectral Reflectances and Commensurateness
Powers, Processes, and Time
Physicalism or Anti-physicalism
Causal Proportionality as an Ontic and Epistemic Concept
The Object-Activity Theory of Events
Emergentist Integrated Information Theory
Norms in Actual Causation
What Killed Your Plant? Profligate Omissions and Weak Centering
Explaining Oppression
A Causal Account of the Physical
Metaphysical dependence and the subset relation between powers
Exclusion, subset realization, and part‐whole relations
From Computational Indeterminacy to the Causal Relevance of Mental Content
Grounding, Internality, and Actuality
The causal efficacy of composites
Consequentialism and our best selves
Moral principle explanations of supervenience
Cohesive proportionality
Halfway proportionality
Difference-making and deterministic chance
A good cause
Sparse Causation and Mere Abundant Causation
Does matter mind content
Thing causation
Tropes and qualitative change
A nonreductive physicalist libertarian free will
The disappearing agent as an exclusion problem
Collective Actions, Individual Reasons, and the Metaphysics of Consequence
Building compressed causal models of the world
Tell me your (cognitive) budget, and I’ll tell you what you value
Mental Causation for Standard Dualists
Causation, from a human point of view
The landscape of causation
Beyond Physicalism and Dualism
Personification and Objectification
Nonreductive Individualism
Response to “Emergence in Sociology
Careful, Physicalists
Response‐dependence and normativity
Phenomenological Laws and Mechanistic Explanations
Normative Judgement
Don’t Panic
Social Emergence
Explaining Reasons
Proportionality and Nonreductive Explanations in the Social Sciences
The Non‐Occurrence of Events
Introspecting Phenomenal States
Semantic Normativity and Semantic Causality
Abduction and Modality
Grounding the Unreal
Properties, Powers, and the Subset Account of Realization
Realization, Micro‐Realization, and Coincidence
Can Counterfactuals Solve the Exclusion Problem
Knowledge as a Non‐Normative Relation
What's So Bad About Overdetermination
Mental Causation versus Physical Causation
Normative explanation unchained
Physicalism Requires Functionalism
Coincidences and the Grain of Explanation
| Unique citing works | 195 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,74 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 194 |