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
（Representation and mind / Hilary Putnam and Ned Block, editors）（Bradford book）
MIT Press, 2000, 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
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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.
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.
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