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Author Kim, Jaegwon.

Title Supervenience and mind : selected philosophical essays / Jaegwon Kim
Published New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993

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Description xviii, 377 pages ; 23 cm
Series Cambridge studies in philosophy
Cambridge studies in philosophy.
Contents Pt. I. Events and supervenience. 1. Causation, nomic subsumption, and the concept of event. 2. Noncausal connections. 3. Events as property exemplifications. 4. Concepts of supervenience. 5. "Strong" and "global" supervenience revisited. 6. Epiphenomenal and supervenient causation. 7. Supervenience for multiple domains. 8. Supervenience as a philosophical concept. 9. Postscripts on supervenience -- Pt. II. Mind and mental causation. 10. Psychophysical supervenience. 11. Psychophysical laws. 12. What is "naturalized epistemology"? 13. Mechanism, purpose, and explanatory exclusion. 14. The myth of nonreductive materialism. 15. Dretske on how reasons explain behavior. 16. Multiple realization and the metaphysics of reduction. 17. The nonreductivist's troubles with mental causation. 18. Postscripts on mental causadon
Analysis Mind Philosophy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Metaphysics.
Philosophy of mind.
Supervenience (Philosophy)
LC no. 93000361
ISBN 0521433940
0521439965 (paperback)