Dependencies, Connections, and Other Relations

The text before you is a study ofthe problematic issue ofmental causation: causation by minds. On hearing the expression ''mental causation,'' you may at first think ofsomething like bending spoons by ''psychic'' powers. But no, we are dealing here with something much more puzzling: doing things for reasons, i. e. , what we call agency. Psychic spoon-bending would be a fairly straightforward issue...