Mind in a physical world : an essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation / Jaegwon Kim.
Mind in a physical world : an essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation / Jaegwon Kim.
Mind in a physical world : an essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation / Jaegwon Kim.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1998.
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viii, 146 p. ; 21 cm.
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Ch. 1. The Mind-Body Problem: Where We Now Are. Supervenience, Realization, and Emergence. Supervenience Is Not a Mind-Body Theory. The Layered Model and Mereological Supervenience. Physical Realizationism. Physical Realizationism Explains Mind-Body Supervenience -- Ch. 2. The Many Problems of Menta...
The Supervenience Argument Revisited. The Options: Good News and Bad News.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1998.
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c1998.
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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. Am...
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Mind in a physical world : an essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation / Jaegwon Kim.
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Representation and mind.
"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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-139) and index.
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c1998.
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0262112345 :
9780262112345 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262112345 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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128/.2
128.2
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991013412909702626
