Supervenience and Mind Selected Philosophical Essays
Supervenience and Mind Selected Philosophical Essays by Jaegwon Kim, published by Cambridge University Press on November 26, 1993, is a first edition that spans 377 pages. This collection showcases Kim’s significant contributions to the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, focusing on key topics such as supervenience, causation, and the mind-body problem. The essays are accompanied by two sets of postscripts specifically written for this edition, providing deeper insights into Kim’s arguments and perspectives.
Readers will encounter a thorough examination of the relationships between facts and events, as well as an analysis of dependency relations beyond mere causation. Kim critically addresses the challenges of explaining how the mind influences bodily processes, offering a modified reductionist solution to the mind-body problem. This work serves as a valuable resource for both professional philosophers and graduate students, delving into complex philosophical issues with clarity and depth.
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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. 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, criticizes 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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