Within the discourse surrounding mind-body interaction, mental causation
is intimately associated with non-reductive physicalism. However, such a
theory holds two opposing views: that all causal properties and relations can
be explicated by physics and that special sciences have an explanatory role.
Jaegwon Kim attempts to deconstruct this problematic contradiction by
arguing that it is untenable for non-reductive physicalists to explain human
behavior by appeal to mental properties. In combination, Kim’s critique of
mental causation and the phenomenal concept strategy serves as an effectual
response to the anti-physicalist stance enclosed within the Knowledge
Argument and the Zombie Thought Experiment