Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 147
Overdetermination/Schiffer/(s): if causal overdetermination is accepted, it must always be accepted. Then mental and neural causes would not be identical.
>Identity theory, >Physicalism, >Materialism, >Causation.
One thing should always be added to the other. - A mental event could never cause a body movement, except in the case of causal overdetermination.
Schiffer: this causal superfluity is unbelievable.
Overdetermination: simultaneously by causal and mental causes.
I 148
Solution: identity of neural and mental events.
I 149
Event: these problems only occur when there is an ontology of real events.
Schiffer: this is not certain.
I 151
Property dualism/Schiffer: supposes simultaneously physicalistic and irreducible mental (intentional) properties.
>Property dualism.
SchifferVsProperty dualism: superfluous, which leads to over-determination.
I 152
Epiphenomenalism/Schiffer: here the causal relevance is inherited.
Schiffer: then it is uperfluous in the explanation.
>More authors on Overdetermination.