Non-reductive physicalism, although the orthodox view in philosophy of mind, faces the problem of explaining mental causation. The main challenge comes from the notorious exclusion problem presented primarily by Kim (1998, 2005). According to this problem, since physicalism holds that each effect that has a cause has a sufficient
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