Dr. Neil Campbell

Professor and Graduate Officer

Contact Information

Email: necampbe@wlu.ca
Phone: 519-884-0710 ext.3548
Fax: 519-884-4565
Office Location: S009

Academic Background

My main area of research is the Philosophy of Mind. I am particularly interested in the problem of mental causation, arguments for qualia epiphenomenalism, and the question of whether or not explanations appealing to an agent's reasons for acting are causal explanations. I recently completed a book that advances a nonreductive account of mental causation and am currently focusing my attention on Jaegwon Kim's Exclusion Principle.

Some recent publications include:

Mental Causation: A Nonreductive Approach (New York: Peter Lang, 2008).

“Reply to Nagasawa on the Inconsistency Objection to the Knowledge Argument,” Erkenntnis Vol. 76 no. 1 (2012) pp. 137-145.

“Functional Reduction and Mental Causation,” (with Dwayne Moore) Acta Analytica Vol. 25 no. 4 (2010) pp. 435-446.

“Explanatory Exclusion and the Intensionality of Explanation,” Theoria Vol. 76 nos. 3-4 (2010) pp. 207-220.

“On Kim’s Exclusion Principle,” (with Dwayne Moore) Synthèse Vol. 169 no. 1 (2009) pp 75-90.

“Explanatory Exclusion and the Individuation of Explanations,” Facta Philosophica Vol. 10 nos. 1/2 (2008) pp. 25-38.

“Explanatory Epiphenomenalism,” The Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 55 no. 220 (2005) pp. 437-451.

“Generalizing Qualia Inversion,” Erkenntnis Vol. 60, no. 1 (2004) pp. 27-34.

“Causes and Causal Explanations: Davidson and his Critics,” Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel Vol. 31 nos. 1-2 (2003) pp. 149-157.

“An Inconsistency in the Knowledge Argument,” Erkenntnis Vol. 58, no. 2 (2003) pp. 261-266.