Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World
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Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World

Themes from the Philosophy of Jaegwon Kim

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eBook - PDF

Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World

Themes from the Philosophy of Jaegwon Kim

About this book

How does mind fit into nature? Philosophy has long been concerned with this question. No contemporary philosopher has done more to clarify it than Jaegwon Kim, a distinguished analytic philosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. With new contributions from an outstanding line-up of eminent scholars, this volume focuses on issues raised in Kim's work. The chapters cluster around two themes: first, exclusion, supervenience, and reduction, with attention to the causal exclusion argument for which Kim is widely celebrated; and second, phenomenal consciousness and qualia, with attention to the prospects for a functionalist account of the mental. This volume is sure to become a major focus of attention and research in the disciplines of metaphysics and philosophy of mind.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781107077836
eBook ISBN
9781316236956
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Epistemology in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of contributors
  7. Preface
  8. 1 Reality and reduction: What's really at stake in the causal exclusion debate
  9. 2 Two property theories and the causal conundrum for physicalism
  10. 3 Mental causation: The free lunch
  11. 4 Does mental causation require psychophysical identities?
  12. 5 The Canberra Plan neglects ground
  13. 6 Microrealization and the mental
  14. 7 Supervenience and the causal explanation of behavior
  15. 8 Visual awareness and visual qualia
  16. 9 Phenomenal externalism, Lolita, and the planet Xenon
  17. 10 Troubles for radical transparency
  18. 11 How theories work: Open questions for methodological philosophy of science
  19. References
  20. Index

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