26 Oct
2005
26 Oct
'05
4:05 p.m.
The Budapest Mind Society and the CEU Department of Philosophy
cordially invite you to a lecture by
Barry Loewer (Rutgers University)
on
Mental Causation: Or Something Near Enough
Tuesday, 8 November, 5 PM
CEU Department of Philosophy,
1051 Budapest, Zrínyi u. 14, 4th floor, rm. 412.
I defend a version of non-reductive physicalism against the criticism (due to Kim among
others) that it can't account for mental causation. I argue that Kim's so called
"exclusion argument" presupposes a view of causation that is, as Russell once
put it, "like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age,
surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm."
BMS home page: http://philosophy.elte.hu/bms
Inquiries: zjakab(a)cogsci.bme.hu