Mental Causation and Ontology

What is it about?

This book contains 11 independent articles all addressing the question of how an improved understanding of the nature of properties and their role in causation can help to solve the problem of how the mental can affect the physical. The authors are all renowned experts in their field.

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Why is it important?

It elaborates on the consequences of recent advances in ontology, in particular regarding our understanding of the notion of powers, for the mental causation problem. In doing that, it opens up new avenues of inquiry.