Mind in a physical world
an essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation
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Word Count
36,500 words, Guess
Page Count
146 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL364079M
- ISBN-100262112345
- OCLC Control Number42856108
- OCLC Control Number39122721
- OCLC Control Numbermindinphysicalwo0000kimj
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number98024346
- LibraryThing186765
- Goodreads5580572
Classifications
- DDC128/.2
- LCCBD418.3 .K53 1998
Description
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.
First Sentence
Current debates on the mind-body problem can be traced back to the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Representation and mind
Other Editions
- Mind in a physical world: an essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation
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