Mind in a physical world: an essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation

This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind - in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of finding a plac...

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Main Author: Kim, Jaegwon 1934-2019 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press 1998
Series:Representation and mind
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Summary:This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind - in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of finding a place for the mind in a world that is fundamentally physical. Among other points, he redefines the roles of supervenience and emergence in the discussion of the mind-body problem. Arguing that various contemporary accounts of mental causation are inadequate, he offers his own partially reductionist solution on the basis of a novel model of reduction.
Physical Description:VIII, 146 S.
ISBN:0262112345

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