

On the raising of a hand
pp. 295-304
in: Rein Vihalemm (ed), Estonian studies in the history and philosophy of science, Berlin, Springer, 2001Abstract
Professor Lynne Rudder Baker suggests that when we begin our analysis of mental causation from a presupposed materialistic metaphysical picture then the phenomenon of mental causality, which seems to be trivial, turns out to be insoluble (Baker, 1993). I shall argue for her view as follows.