Mental causation

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When we explain someone's behaviour, we do so by appealing to their mental states – their beliefs, desires, and so on. But, as Fred Dretske explains below, materialists have a hard time explaining how our mental states could have any effect on our behaviour.

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10.1017/s1477175600000750

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original Dretske, Fred (1999) "Mental Causation". The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 2(7):81-88
reprint Dretske, Fred (1999) "Mental causation". In Dretske, Fred, The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 2: Metaphysics, pp. 81-88: Bowling Green: Philosophy Doc Ctr (1999)

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Fred Dretske
Last affiliation: Duke University

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Moral explanation.Brad Majors - 2006 - Philosophy Compass 2 (1):1–15.

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