naa a22 4500 510789366 CHVBK 20180411083313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-013-9457-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-013-9457-y Campbell Neil Department of Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada aut Do MacDonald and MacDonald Solve the Problem of Mental Causal Relevance? [Elektronische Daten] [Neil Campbell] Ever since Davidson first articulated and defended anomalous monism, nonreductive physicalists have struggled with the problem of mental causation. Considerations about the causal closure of the physical domain and related principles about exclusion make it very difficult to maintain the distinctness of mental and physical properties while securing a causal role for the former. Recently, philosophers have turned their attention to the underlying metaphysics and ontology of the mental causation debate to gain traction on this issue. Cynthia MacDonald and Graham MacDonald have followed suit and argue that the solution to the nonreductivist's troubles lies in a particular metaphysical view of events. They claim that an appropriately formulated property exemplification account of events resolves the problem and secures the causal relevance of mental properties. I argue that while this approach might get us the causal efficacy of mental events, it does not provide the sought-after causal relevance of mental properties. I show that the reason MacDonald and MacDonald stumble on the problem of causal relevance is—ironically—due to features of their view of events. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Mental causation nationallicence Exclusion nationallicence Events nationallicence Property exemplification nationallicence Supervenience nationallicence Epiphenomenalism nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/4(2013-12-01), 1149-1158 0048-3893 41:4<1149 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9457-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9457-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Campbell Neil Department of Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/4(2013-12-01), 1149-1158 0048-3893 41:4<1149 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer