This work covers, in its subsequent parts, ontology, the metaphysics of causation, and the philosophy of mind. It provides a firm theoretical basis for believing that in our all-physical world mental causation is perfectly real, and that it can be understood.

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Preface. Introduction: I. A brief history. II. The five problems of mental causation. III. A look forward. I: Ontology. 1. Particulars, properties and relations. 2. Physicalism. 3. A layered world. II: Causality. 4. A duality in the concept of causality. 5. Causal dependence. 6. Causal connection. 7. Unifying dependence and connection. 8. Causation and natural law. 9. The problem of causal relata. 10. Getting events wrong. 11. Getting events right. 12. Relations as causal relata. 13. Causal efficiency. 14. Causal efficacy. III: Mind. 15. The concept of mind. 16. Against the computational theory. 17. Against the theory theory. 18. Against internalism. 19. Against reductionism. 20. Against token physicalism. Conclusion: 21. The five problems once again. References. Name Index. Subject Index.