Mind in a Physical World

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.

First sentence: Current debates on the mind-body problem can be traced back to the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

The MIT Press

Editions

3

Pages

156

ISBN

9780262611534

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