Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 The New Mechanistic Approach: Core Ideas; 1.2 Why the Metaphysics of Mechanisms Matters; 1.3 Consequences for the Philosophy of Mind; 1.4 Goals and Overview; References; Chapter 2: Theories of Mechanism; 2.1 Wesley Salmon's Approach, the Ontic View, and the Causal-Constitutive Distinction; 2.2 Complex System Mechanisms; 2.3 The Acting Entities Approach; 2.4 Acting Entities Mechanisms and the Etiological/Constitutive Distinction; 2.5 Comparing Complex System Mechanisms and Acting Entities Mechanisms; 2.6 Summary
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6.1 Mechanisms Do Not Explain Capacities6.2 The Functionalist View of Constitutive Mechanistic Phenomena; 6.3 The Behaving Entity View of Constitutive Mechanistic Phenomena; 6.4 Summary; References; Chapter 7: Causation and Constitution; 7.1 Two Notions of Causation; 7.2 Constitution: Connecting the Dots; 7.3 A New Interventionist Approach to Constitutive Relevance2; 7.4 Interlevel Causation and Exclusion Worries; 7.5 Mechanistic Constitution; 7.6 Summary; References; Chapter 8: Autonomy, Laws of Nature, and the Mind-Body Problem; 8.1 Summary: The Metaphysics of Mechanisms
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8.2 The Autonomy of the Special Sciences8.3 Mechanisms vs. Laws-Is the New Mechanistic Approach Original?; 8.4 Non-reductive Physicalism; References