The causal efficacy of mental states

In Sven Walter & Heinz-Dieter Heckmann, Physicalism and Mental Causation: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action. Imprint Academic. pp. 195--223 (2003)
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You are asked to call out the letters on a chart during an eyeexamination: you see and then read out the letters ‘U’, ‘R’, and ‘X’. Commonsense says that your perceptual experiences causally control your calling out the letters. Or suppose you are playing a game of chess intent on winning: you plan your strategy and move your chess pieces accordingly. Again, commonsense says that your intentions and plans causally control your moving the chess pieces. These causal judgements are as plain and evident as any can be

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original Menzies, Peter (2001) "The causal efficacy of mental states". In Monnoyer, J. M., The Structure of the World: The Renewal of Metaphysics in the Australian School, pp. : Vrin Publishers (2001)

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