Journal Article10.1093/MIND/XCIII.372.514
Mind and Matter: A Problem that Refuses Dissolution
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About: This article is published in Mind. The article was published on 01 Oct 1984.
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On the matter of minds and mental causation
TL;DR: In this paper, a more sophisticated understanding of scientific theorizing and of the relation between ontology and explanation give us a framework in which we can determine when we should refer to mental states as being the causally efficacious agents for some behavior.
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