Mind in a physical world : an essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation / Jaegwon Kim.
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©1998.
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| Series: | Representation and mind.
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| Online Access: | Click for online access |
| Summary: | "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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| Item Description: | "A Bradford book." Book consists of four revised lectures given by the author as the Townsend Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, in Mar. 1996. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 146 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-139) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262277105 0262277107 0585078777 9780585078779 |
| Language: | English. |