Description |
xviii, 377 pages ; 23 cm |
Series |
Cambridge studies in philosophy |
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Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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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.
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Philosophy of mind.
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Supervenience (Philosophy)
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LC no. |
93000361 |
ISBN |
0521433940 |
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0521439965 (paperback) |
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