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" Mind in a physical world : "
Jaegwon Kim.
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1012101
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Kim, Jaegwon.
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Mind in a physical world : : an essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation /\ Jaegwon Kim.
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Cambridge, Mass. :: MIT Press,, ©1998.
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Representation and mind
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1 online resource (viii, 146 pages)
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0262277107
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: 0585078777
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0262112345
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0262112345
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9780262112345
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"A Bradford book."
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Book consists of four revised lectures given by the author as the Townsend Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, in Mar. 1996.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-139) and index.
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| Contents
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Chapter 1 -- The Mind-Body Problem: Where We Now Are -- Supervenience, Realization, and Emergence -- Supervenience Is Not a Mind-Body Theory -- The Layered Model and Mereological Supervenience -- Physical Realizationism -- Physical Realizationism Explains Mind-Body Supervenience -- Chapter 2 -- The Many Problems of Mental Causation -- Three Problems of Mental Causation -- The Supervenience Argument, or Descartes's Revenge -- Searle, Fodor, and the Supervenience Argument -- Block's Worries about Second-Order Properties -- Chapter 3 -- Mental Causation: The Backlash and Free Lunches -- Unavoidability of Metaphysics: The Exclusion Problem -- Do Counterfactuals Help? -- "Program Explanation" and Supervenient Causation -- Does the Problem of Mental Causation Generalize? -- Properties: "Levels" and "Orders" -- Chapter 4 -- Reduction and Reductionism: A New Look -- Nagel Reduction: Troubles with 'Bridge Laws' -- The Functional Model of Reduction -- Functional Properties versus Functional Concepts -- Multiple Realization Again -- The Supervenience Argument Revisited -- The Options: Good News and Bad News -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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"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. Retaining the informal tone of the lecture format, the book is clear yet sophisticated"--Publisher.
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Causation.
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Mind and body.
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Philosophy of mind.
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Causation.
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Mind and body.
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Philosophy Religion.
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Philosophy of mind.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Mind Body.
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Philosophy.
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Speculative Philosophy.
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Causaliteit.
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Lichaam en geest.
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Reductionisme.
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| Dewey Classification
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128/.2
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BD418.3.K53 1998eb
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