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Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World: Themes from the Philosophy of Jaegwon Kim

By Terence Horgan , Marcelo Sabates , David Sosa

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
1107077834, 9781107077836
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1397970 bytes)
Pages
282\284
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-04-04 18:55:58

Description

How does mind fit into nature? Philosophy has long been concerned with this question. No contemporary philosopher has done more to clarify it than Jaegwon Kim, a distinguished analytic philosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. With new contributions from an outstanding line-up of eminent scholars, this volume focuses on issues raised in Kim's work. The chapters cluster around two themes: first, exclusion, supervenience, and reduction, with attention to the causal exclusion argument for which Kim is widely celebrated; and second, phenomenal consciousness and qualia, with attention to the prospects for a functionalist account of the mental. This volume is sure to become a major focus of attention and research in the disciplines of metaphysics and philosophy of mind.

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