causation

As a hardcore atheist committed to scientific materialism, and I admit not very skeptical about it, I am on occasion reminded that my worldview may be too narrow. For instance, I cannot fathom quantum indeterminacy or action at a distance, or parallel universes, or any of that. I prefer a...

By mental causation I mean that our intentions/desires etc are actually causally efficacious in themselves and bring about appropriate behaviour.

(From a course in research methods my wife is taking.) The Criteria for Causation 1. That the event labled as causal be located prior to the event labeled as effect. 2. That the effect is subject through testing of dependant and independant variables. 3. That all confounding factors be...