Causal Overdetermination: Still Crazy After All these Years. Part I: What is at Stake?

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-244
Author(s):  
Tuomas K. Pernu
Keyword(s):  
Causal Overdetermination

scholarly journals Causal Overdetermination for Humeans?

Metaphysica ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Esfeld
Keyword(s):  
Causal Overdetermination

Token Monism, Event Dualism and Overdetermination

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
Hagit Benbaji
Keyword(s):  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Physical Event ◽  
Causal Overdetermination ◽  
Sufficient Cause ◽  
Shortest Route ◽  
Mental Events

The argument from causal overdetermination (‘the CO-argument’) is considered to be the shortest route to token monism. It only assumes that:1.Efficacy: Mental events are causes of physical events.2.Closure: Every physical event has a sufficient physical cause (if it has any sufficient cause).3.Exclusion: Systematic Causal Overdetermination (CO) is impossible: if an event x is a sufficient cause of an event y then no event x* distinct from x is a cause of y.4.Identity: Therefore, mental events are physical events.Exclusion does not deny the possibility of two gunmen that fi re at a victim at the same time. But event-dualism is like a systematic fi ringsquad case — whenever I want to raise my arm, my arm is raised, and that is intolerable.

Causal Overdetermination and Modal Compatibilism

Philosophia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 1111-1131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin W. Sharpe
Keyword(s):  
Causal Overdetermination

Three Varieties of Causal Overdetermination

2002 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Funkhouser
Keyword(s):  
Causal Overdetermination

scholarly journals Interventionism and Epiphenomenalism

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Baumgartner
Keyword(s):  
Causal Exclusion ◽  
Master Argument ◽  
Causal Influence ◽  
Causal Overdetermination ◽  
Exclusion Argument ◽  
Causal Closure

One of the central objectives Shapiro and Sober pursue in (2007) is to show that what they call the master argument for epiphenomenalism, which is a type of causal exclusion argument, fails. Epiphe nomenalism, according to the terminology adopted in (Shapiro and Sober 2007), designates the thesis that supervening macro properties (or variables or factors) have no causal influence on micro proper ties that are caused by the micro supervenience bases of those macro properties. Well-known classical exclusion arguments are designed to yield such macro-tomicro epiphenomenalism along the lines of the following reasoning: subject to the widely accepted principle of the causal closure of the physical, there exists a causally sufficient micro cause for every micro effect; if it is additionally assumed that macro properties supervene on micro properties without being identical (or reducible) to the latter and if — in light of the rareness of cases of causal overdetermination — micro effects are assumed not to be systematically overdetermined, it follows that macro properties are causally inert with respect to effects of their micro supervenience bases.

scholarly journals Causal overdetermination and counterfactuals revisited

1977 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-214
Author(s):  
Louis E. Loeb
Keyword(s):  
Causal Overdetermination

Bunzl on causal overdetermination

1981 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Ehring
Keyword(s):  
Causal Overdetermination
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