Mind in a Physical World : An Essay on the

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.

Preface
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 Realizationism
Physical Realizationism Explains Mind-Body Supervenience
The Many Problems of Mental Causation
Three Problems of Mental Causation
The Problem of Anomalous Mental Properties
The Problem of Extrinsic Mental Properties
The Problem of Causal Exclusion
The Supervenience Argument, or Descartes's Revenge
Searle, Fodor, and the Supervenience Argument
Block's Worries about Second-Order Properties
Mental Causation: The Backlash and Free Lunches
Unavoidability of Metaphysics: The Exclusion Problem
Do Counterfactuals Help?
"Program Explanation" and Supervenient Causation
Does the Problem of Mental Causation Generalize?
Properties: "Levels" and "Orders"
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
Notes
References
Index
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Mind in a Physical World : An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation

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