Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521439961)

Jaegwon Kim is one of the most preeminent and most influential contributors to the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. This collection of essays presents the core of his work on supervenience and mind with two sets of postscripts especially written for the book. The essays focus on such issues as the nature of causation and events, what dependency relations other than causal relations connect facts and events, the analysis of supervenience, and the mind-body problem. A central problem in the philosophy of mind is the problem of explaining how the mind can causally influence bodily processes. Professor Kim explores this problem in detail, criticizes the nonreductionist solution of it, and offers a modified reductionist solution of his own. Both professional philosophers and their graduate students will find this an invaluable collection.

Author: Jaegwon Kim, Kim Jaegwon
ISBN-10: 0521439965
ISBN-13: 9780521439961
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/26/1993
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 8.48h x 6.10w x 1.02d