Mind in a physical world : an essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation

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Mind in a physical world : an essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation

Jaegwon Kim

(Representation and mind / Hilary Putnam and Ned Block, editors)

MIT Press, c1998

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"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

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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. Among other points, he redefines the roles of supervenience and emergence in the discussion of the mind-body problem. Arguing that various contemporary accounts of mental causation are inadequate, he offers his own partially reductionist solution on the basis of a novel model of reduction. Retaining the informal tone of the lecture format, the book is clear yet sophisticated.

目次

  • Part 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 realization
  • physical realization explains mind-body supervenience. Part 2 The many problems of mental causation: three problems of mental causation
  • the supervenience argument, or Descartes's revenge
  • Searle, Fodor and the supervenience argument
  • Block's worries about second-order properties. Part 3 Mental causation - the backlash and free lunches: unavoidability of metaphysics - the exclusion problem
  • do counterfactuals help?
  • "programme explanation" and supervenient causation
  • does the problem of mental causation generalize?
  • properties - "levels" and "orders". Part 4 Reduction and reductionism - a new look: Nagel reduction - troubles with "bridge laws"
  • the functional model of reduction
  • functional properties versus functional concepts
  • multiple realization again
  • the supervenience argument revisited
  • the options - good news and bad news.

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