Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical EssaysJaegwon Kim is one of the most preeminent and most influential contributors to the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. This collection of essays presents the core of his work on supervenience and mind with two sets of postscripts especially written for the book. The essays focus on such issues as the nature of causation and events, what dependency relations other than causal relations connect facts and events, the analysis of supervenience, and the mind-body problem. A central problem in the philosophy of mind is the problem of explaining how the mind can causally influence bodily processes. Professor Kim explores this problem in detail, criticizes the nonreductionist solution of it, and offers a modified reductionist solution of his own. Both professional philosophers and their graduate students will find this an invaluable collection. |
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Contents
Causation nomic subsumption and the concept of event | 3 |
Noncausal connections | 22 |
Events as property exemplifications | 33 |
Concepts of supervenience | 53 |
Strong and global supervenience revisited | 79 |
Epiphenomenal and supervenient causation | 92 |
Superveniencefor multiple domains | 109 |
Supervenience as a philosophical concept | 131 |
Psychophysical laws | 194 |
What is naturalized epistemology? | 216 |
Mechanism purpose and explanatory exclusion | 237 |
The myth of nonreductive materialism | 265 |
Dretske on how reasons explain behavior | 285 |
Multiple realization and the metaphysics of reduction | 309 |
The nonreductivists troubles with mental causation | 336 |
Postscripts on mental causation | 358 |
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| Title | Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays Cambridge Studies in Philosophy, ISSN 0950-6306 Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays, Jaegwon Kim |
| Author | Jaegwon Kim |
| Editor | Ernest Sosa |
| Contributors | Jonathan Dancy, John Haldane, Gilbert Harman, Frank Jackson, William G. Lucan |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0521439965, 9780521439961 |
| Length | 377 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Logic Philosophy / Mind & Body |
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