CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Simsek, Muhammet Masuk |
|---|---|
| Title | Grounding The Mental: An Evaluation Of Compatibilist Replies To The Exclusion Argument |
| Summary | Assuming that there are different levels of reality (e.g., the mental and the physical) how are those levels related to each other if not causally? This thesis is devoted to an investigation of this question in relation to a specific metaphysical notion, grounding. In particular, I use accounts which, as a response to the objections about overdetermination, analyze inter-level causation in terms of a synchronic non-causal component and a diachronic causal component to argue for a levels of reality view. Moreover, I argue that the non-causal component can understood best from the perspective of Grounding Physicalism. |
| Supervisor | Crane, Tim |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/simsek_muhammet.pdf |
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