Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind

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ISBN: 9780199585878 | 0199585873
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/16/2010

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Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades. The volume includes three new essays, on an agent-centered first-person account of action explanation, the concepts of realization and their bearings on the mind-body problem, and t

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Sources and Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Making Sense of Emergence	p. 8
The Layered World: Metaphysical Considerations	p. 41
Emergence: Core Ideas and Issues	p. 66
ôSupervenient and Yet Not Deducibleö: Is There a Coherent Concept of Ontological Emergence?	p. 85
Reasons and the First Person	p. 105
Taking the Agent's Point of View Seriously in Action Explanation	p. 125
Explanatory Realism, Causal Realism, and Explanatory Exclusion	p. 148
Explanatory Knowledge and Metaphysical Dependence	p. 167
Hempel, Explanation, Metaphysics	p. 187
Reduction and Reductive Explanation: Is One Possible Without the Other?	p. 207
Can Supervenience and ôNon-Strictö Laws Save Anomalous Monism?	p. 234
Causation and Mental Causation	p. 243
Two Concepts of Realization, Mental Causation, and Physicalism	p. 263
Why There Are No Laws in the Special Sciences: Three Arguments	p. 282
Index	p. 311
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