Mind in a physical world : an essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation /

Mind in a physical world : an essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kim, Jaegwon.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1998.
Description:	viii, 146 p. ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Representation and mind
Subject:	Philosophy of mind. Mind and body. Causation. Causation. Mind and body. Philosophy of mind.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3468763

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ISBN:	0262112345 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	"A Bradford book." Book consists of four revised lectures given by the author as the Townsend lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, in March 1996. Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-139) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
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
The Many Problems of Mental Causation
Three Problems of Mental Causation
The Problem of Anomalous Mental Properties
The Problem of Extrinsic Mental Properties
The Problem of Causal Exclusion
The Supervenience Argument, or Descartes's Revenge
Searle, Fodor, and the Supervenience Argument
Block's Worries about Second-Order Properties
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"
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