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Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy (BRIEFSPHILOSOPH)
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About this book
The book is divided into two parts.  The first deals with Jaegwon Kim’s so-called Supervenience Argument (SA) against non-reductive physicalism.  One important observation is that the structural similarities between non-reductive physicalism and ‘orthodox’ theism make it convenient to co-opt non-reductive physicalist solutions to the SA in defending the possibility of creaturely causation in the philosophy of religion.  The SA is used as a foil to discuss the relative merits of Malebranche’s so-called Conservation is Continuous Creation Argument for Occasionalism (CCCA).  Moverover, the so-called compatibilist strategy (Karen Bennett 2003, 2009) for developing a non-reductive physicalist response to the Supervenience Argument is defended and developed.  This strategy is then deployed in the philosophy of religion to defend the possibility of creaturely causation against the CCCA.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: God and Mental Causation
Authors: Daniel Lim
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47426-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-47425-9Published: 25 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-47426-6Published: 15 June 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-4548
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 100
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Religious Studies, general, Philosophy of Mind