Blackwell Guide - "Mental Causation" by John Heil

At this meeting, we will be discussing John Heil's article, "Mental Causation" from the Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind.

In this article, Heil discusses the challenges of explaining how mental states can cause physical actions in a way that is consistent with our scientific understanding of the world, exploring various physicalist and dualist accounts for this mechanism. This is essay #6 in a series of sessions on Philosophy of Mind, using the Blackwell Guide.

Excited to get into these articles with you!
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Getting the article
This article and all others from this collection are, as far as I know, unique to the Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind. If you are not interested in buying a copy of the guide, reach out to me and I should be able to locate the article for you.

Next Works
Here is our current roadmap for sessions:

1. "The Mind-Body Problem" by William G. Lycan
2. "Dualism" by Howard Robinson
3. "Thoughts and Their Contents: Naturalized Semantics" by Fred Adams
4. "Consciousness and its Place in Nature" Pt 1 & 2 by David J. Chalmers
5. "Cognitive Architecture: The Structure of Cognitive Representations" by Kenneth Aizawa
6. "Mental Causation" by John Heil
7. "Philosophy of Mind and Neurosciences" by John Bickle (rescheduled)