This paper contributes to a growing body of literature focusing on Anton Wilhelm Amo's account the mind-body relation. The first aim this is provide an overview that literature, bringing together several interpretations relation and providing comprehensive where debate stands so far. Doing reveals commentary split between those who take Amo adopt Leibnizian pre-established harmony mind argue ad...

I argue that the constitution relation transmits causal efficacy and thus is a suitable relation to deploy in many troubled areas of philosophy, such as the mind– body problem. We need not demand identity.

Does the reference to a mental realm in using the notion of mental disorder lead to a dilemma that consists in either implying a Cartesian account of the mind-body relation or in the need to give up a notion of mental disorder in its own right? Many psychiatrists seem to believe that denying substance dualism requires a purely neurophysiological stance for explaining mental disorder. However, t...