Jaegwon Kim, Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the.
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.
Jaegwon Kim is one of the most preeminent 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.
Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades. The volume includes three new essays, on an agent-centered first-person account of action explanation, the concepts of realization and their bearings on the mind-body problem, and the nonexistence of laws in the special sciences.
This book is a collection of 14 essays; 11 of these have been previously published and three are new. All but one of them have been written since 1993 when my essay collection Supervenience and Mind appeared. Essays used in the monographs, Mind in a Physical World and Physicalism, Or Something Near Enough, have been excluded. The book begins with four essays on emergence and related issues; in.
Physicalism: A Critique of Jaegwon Kim's Superveniente and Mind David Ray Griffin DAVID RAY GRIFFIN is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, CA 91711. The present essay is adapted from the final chapter of his Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body.
Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation Jaegwon Kim This text, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's late-1990s views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind - in particular, the mind-bady problem, mental causation, and reductionism.
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I begin, in Chapter One, with a critical analysis of Jaegwon Kim’s Physicalism, or Something Near Enough. (2005) There, I maintain that Kim’s ontology cannot adequately address both the problem of mental causation and the “ hard problem of consciousness.” In Chapter Two, I examine the causal pairing problem for substance dualism. I.
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Jaegwon Kim has spent many years working on the mind-body problem and the related problem of mental causation.He has critically examined the concept of supervenience, the idea that emergent properties or laws in the higher level of a hierarchy might give them some downward causal control over the properties or laws of lower levels. Kim accepts and promotes the idea of physicalism, which for.
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Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation (Representation and Mind) by Jaegwon Kim (2000-01-31) (Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays) Author: Jaegwon Kim published on (September, 2002) Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (Princeton Monographs in Philosophy) by Kim, Jaegwon (2007) Paperback.
Physicalism, Reductive and Nonreductive Physicalism is a doctrine that asserts that ultimately only physical particulars exist. While physicalism and materialism are sometimes considered equivalent, the former is more ontologically open, for while materialism claims that everything is composed of matter, physicalism holds that everything is comprised ultimately of those entities assumed in the.
