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1 online resource (viii, 317 pages) |
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Making sense of emergence -- The layered world : metaphysical considerations -- Emergence : core ideas and issues -- Supervenient and yet not deducible : is there a coherent concept of ontological emergence? -- Reasons and the first person -- Taking the agent's point of view seriously in action explanation -- Explanatory realism, casual realism, and explanatory exclusion -- Explanatory knowledge and metaphysical dependence -- Hempel, explanation, metaphysics -- Reduction and reductive explanation : is one possible without the other? -- Can supervenience and "non-strict" laws save anomalous monism? -- Causation and mental causation -- Two concepts of realization, mental causation, and physicalism -- Why there are no laws in the special sciences : three arguments |
| Summary |
Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades, on a set of related topics for which he has played a leading role in shaping philosophical debate, such as emergence, explanation, reduction, and mental causation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Metaphysics.
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Philosophy of mind.
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Metaphysics
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metaphysics.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Metaphysics
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Philosophy of mind
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Metaphysik
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Philosophy of Mind
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Philosophy of mind.
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Metaphysik.
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Philosophy of Mind.
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Metaphysics.
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Philosophy of mind.
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Metafysik.
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Electronic book
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Oxford University Press
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| ISBN |
9780199585878 |
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0199585873 |
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9780199585885 |
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0199585881 |
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9780191613005 |
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0191613002 |
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