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SUPERVENIENCE AND MIND
SELECTED PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS |
| By: |
Jaegwon Kim |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521433940 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521433945 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
26 November, 1993 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
| Pages: |
397 |
| Description: |
This collection of essays presents the core of the work of influential philosopher Jaegwon Kim. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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