List of Figures .............................................. xvii
Introduction .................................................... i
Part I. Mental Causation, Causal Closure, and Emergent
Dualism ................................................ 17
1 Self, Agency, and Mental Causation .......................... 19
2 Causal Closure Principles and Emergentism ................... 41
3 Physical Causal Closure and the Invisibility of Mental
Causation ................................................... 58
4 Could Volitions Be Epiphenomenal? ........................... 79
5 The Self as an Emergent Substance ........................... 92
Part II. Persons, Rational Action, and Free Will .............. 119
6 Event Causation and Agent Causation ........................ 121
7 Personal Agency ............................................ 141
8 Substance Causation, Persons, and Free Will ................ 159
9 Rational Selves and Freedom of Action ...................... 179
10 Needs, Facts, Goodness, and Truth .......................... 199
Bibliography .................................................. 213
Index ......................................................... 219
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