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All the ideas for 'Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian themes', 'Purple Haze' and 'Causes and Events: Mackie on causation'

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
For Kim, events are exemplifications of properties by objects at particular times [Kim, by Psillos]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / d. Explanatory gap
Even if we identify pain with neural events, we can't explain why those neurons cause that feeling [Levine, by Papineau]
Only phenomenal states have an explanatory gap; water is fully explained by H2O [Levine, by Papineau]
Materialism won't explain phenomenal properties, because the latter aren't seen in causal roles [Papineau on Levine]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
Causation interests us because we want to explain change [Mumford]