Supervenience and Mind : Selected Philosophical Essays
by Jaegwon Kim , General editor Ernest SosaFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1993-11-26
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Jaegwon Kim is one of the most pre-eminent 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, criticises 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.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Sources | |
| Events and supervenience | |
| Causation, nomic subsumption, and the concept of event | p. 3 |
| Noncausal connections | p. 22 |
| Events as property exemplifications | p. 33 |
| Concepts of supervenience | p. 53 |
| "Strong" and "global" supervenience revisited | p. 79 |
| Epiphenomenal and supervenient causation | p. 92 |
| Supervenience for multiple domains | p. 109 |
| Supervenience as a philosophical concept | p. 131 |
| Postscripts on supervenience | p. 161 |
| Mind and mental causation | |
| Psychophysical supervenience | p. 175 |
| Psychophysical laws | p. 194 |
| What is "naturalized epistemology"? | p. 216 |
| Mechanism, purpose, and explanatory exclusion | p. 237 |
| The myth of nonreductive materialism | p. 265 |
| Dretske on how reasons explain behavior | p. 285 |
| Multiple realization and the metaphysics of reduction | p. 309 |
| The nonreductivist's troubles with mental causation | p. 336 |
| Postscripts on mental causadon | p. 358 |
| Index | p. 369 |
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