title: Correlation vs. Causality: How/Why the Mind/Body Problem Is Hard
creator: Harnad, Stevan
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Philosophy of Mind
description: The Mind/Body Problem (M/BP) is about causation not correlation. And its solution (if there is one) will require a mechanism in which the mental component somehow manages to play a causal role of its own, rather than just supervening superflously on other, nonmental components that look, for all the world, as if they can do the full causal job perfectly well without it. Correlations confirm that M does indeed "supervene" on B, but causality is needed to show how/why M is not supererogatory; and that's the hard part. 
publisher: Imprint Academic
date: 2000
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/1617/1/harnad00.mind.humphrey.html
identifier:   Harnad, Stevan  (2000) Correlation vs. Causality: How/Why the Mind/Body Problem Is Hard.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/1617/