God and Mental Causation

di Daniel Lim (Autore)

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, 2015

This book lies at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion and operates on the assumption that dialogue between the two disciplines can be fruitful.  In particular it focuses on how debates in the philosophy of mind regarding the nature of mental causation relate to debates in the philosophy of religion regarding divine action, creaturely causation, and existence of God. The book is divided into two parts.  The first deals with Jaegwon Kim’s so-called Supervenience Argument (SA) against non-reductive physicalism.  One important observation is that the structural similarities between non-reductive physicalism and ‘orthodox’ theism make it convenient to co-opt non-reductive physicalist solutions to the SA in defending the possibility of creaturely causation in the philosophy of religion.  The SA is used as a foil to discuss the relative merits of Malebranche’s so-called Conservation is Continuous Creation Argument for Occasionalism (CCCA).  Moverover, the so-called compatibilist strategy (Karen Bennett 2003, 2009) for developing a non-reductive physicalist response to the Supervenience Argument is defended and developed.  This strategy is then deployed in the philosophy of religion to defend the possibility of creaturely causation against the CCCA.

• Autore: Daniel Lim
• Editore: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
• Collana: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 100 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9783662474259

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