The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness

The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 406-417

  Kim, Jaegwon ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal efficacy; Complex actions; Epiphenomenalism; Mental causation; Scientific considerations

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249123296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751466.ch33     Document Type: Chapter

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