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All the ideas for 'Looking for Spinoza', 'Causality and Explanation' and 'Making Mind Matter More'

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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

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Salmon's mechanisms are processes and interactions, involving marks, or conserved quantities [Salmon, by Machamer/Darden/Craver]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving

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Conatus is brain circuits seeking survival and well-being [Damasio]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 6. Epiphenomenalism

2599	Either intentionality causes things, or epiphenomenalism is true [Fodor]

17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 2. Anomalous Monism

2597	Contrary to the 'anomalous monist' view, there may well be intentional causal laws [Fodor]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability

2598	Lots of physical properties are multiply realisable, so why shouldn't beliefs be? [Fodor]