By now you might have heard of Tyron Goldschmidt's paper “A Demonstration of the Causal Power of Absences” in which he aims to do just that. In case you have yet to see it, the paper tries to do so by having nothing more than a title: the body of... Continue reading

Many accounts of the causation of overt intentional bodily actions assume that what happens when you are making your body move during an action must be explained in terms of causal relations among discrete *events*. For example, many claim that the occurrence of a mental event non-deviantly causes the occurrence... Continue reading