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Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation

✍ Scribed by Jaegwon Kim

Book ID
127399409
Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
355 KB
Category
Library
ASIN
B0042JTB5U

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✦ Synopsis

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.

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