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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Selected Philosophical Essays
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ISBN
9780511882371
Publisert
2013
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1. utgave
Utgiver
Cambridge University Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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