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Qualia and mental causation in a physical world : themes from the philosophy of Jaegwon Kim / edited by Terence Horgan, Marcelo Sabatés and David Sosa.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy of mind.
- Qualia.
- Causation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 271 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Qualia & Mental Causation in a Physical World
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How does mind fit into nature? Philosophy has long been concerned with this question. No contemporary philosopher has done more to clarify it than Jaegwon Kim, a distinguished analytic philosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. With new contributions from an outstanding line-up of eminent scholars, this volume focuses on issues raised in Kim's work. The chapters cluster around two themes: first, exclusion, supervenience, and reduction, with attention to the causal exclusion argument for which Kim is widely celebrated; and second, phenomenal consciousness and qualia, with attention to the prospects for a functionalist account of the mental. This volume is sure to become a major focus of attention and research in the disciplines of metaphysics and philosophy of mind.
- Contents:
- Reality and reduction: what's really at stake in the causal exclusion debate / Louise M. Antony
- Two property theories and the causal conundrum for physicalism / Frank Jackson
- Mental causation: the free lunch / Barry Loewer
- Does mental causation require psychophysical identities? / Brian P. McLaughlin
- The Canberra plan neglects ground / Ned Block
- Microrealization and the mental / Sydney Shoemaker
- Supervenience and the causal explanation of behavior / Fred Dretske
- Visual awareness and visual qualia / Christopher Hill
- Phenomenal externalism, Lolita, and the planet Xenon / Michael Tye
- Troubles for radical transparency / James van Cleve
- How theories work: open questions for methodological philosophy of science / Lawrence Sklar.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-25587-5
- 1-316-23695-1
- 1-316-25397-X
- 1-316-25019-9
- 1-316-25208-6
- 1-107-43488-2
- 1-316-24830-5
- 1-139-93953-X
- 1-316-23506-8
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