Essays in the metaphysics of mind / Jaegwon Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Jaegwon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 317 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades, on a set of related topics for which he has played a leading role in shaping philosophical debate, such as emergence explanation, reduction, and mental causation.

Contents:

Contents

Sources and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Making Sense of Emergence

2. The Layered World: Metaphysical Considerations

3. Emergence: Core Ideas and Issues

4. Supervenient and Yet Not Deducible: Is There a Coherent Concept of Ontological Emergence?

5. Reasons and the First Person

6. Taking the Agent's Point of View Seriously in Action Explanation

7. Explanatory Realism, Causal Realism, and Explanatory Exclusion

8. Explanatory Knowledge and Metaphysical Dependence

9. Hempel, Explanation, Metaphysics

10. Reduction and Reductive Explanation: Is One Possible Without the Other?

11. Can Supervenience and Non-Strict Laws Save Anomalous Monism?

12. Causation and Mental Causation

13. Two Concepts of Realization, Mental Causation, and Physicalism

14. Why There Are No Laws in the Special Sciences: Three Arguments

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-162506-X

0-19-159534-9

1-283-30316-7

9786613303165

0-19-161300-2

OCLC:

922970547