Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind
1st Edition
Published on 21. October 2010
Book
Hardback
326 pages
978-0-19-958587-8 (ISBN)
Description
Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades. The volume includes three new essays, on an agent-centered first-person account of action explanation, the concepts of realization and their bearings on the mind-body problem, and the nonexistence of laws in the special sciences. Among other topics covered are emergence and emergentism, the nature of explanation and of theories of explanation, reduction and reductive explanation, mental causation and explanatory exclusion. Kim tackles questions such as: How should we understand the concept of "emergence", and what are the prospects of emergentism as a doctrine about the status of minds? What does an agent-centered, first-person account of explanation of human actions look like? Why aren't there strict laws in the special sciences - sciences like biology, psychology, and sociology? The essays will be accessible to attentive readers without an extensive philosophical background.
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a valuable addition to the literature on the metaphysics on the mind * Grant Gillett, Philosophy *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Scholars and advanced students of philosophy.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
655 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-958587-8 (9780199585878)
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Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind
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Person
Jaegwon Kim received his PhD from Princeton University in 1962 and has taught at Swarthmore College, the University of Michigan, Cornell University, and University of Notre Dame. He is presently William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. Kim is past President of the American Philosophical Association and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Content
1. Making sense of emergence ; 2. The layered world: Metaphysical considerations ; 3. Emergence: Core ideas and issues ; 4. "Supervenient and yet not deducible": Is there a coherent concept of ontological emergence? ; 5. Reasons and the first person ; 6. Taking the agent's point of view seriously in action explanation ; 7. Explanatory realism, causal realism, and explanatory exclusion ; 8. Explanatory knowledge and metaphysical dependence ; 9. Hempel, explanation, metaphysics ; 10. Reduction and reductive explanation: Is one possible without the other? ; 11. Can supervenience and "non-strict" laws save anomalous monism? ; 12. Causation and mental causation ; 13. Two concepts of realization, mental causation, and physicalism ; 14. Why there are no laws in the special sciences: Three arguments ; Index