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Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation

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This text, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's late-1990s views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind - in particular, the mind-bady 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 model of reduction. The book retains the informal tone of the lecture format.

Author(s): Jaegwon Kim
Series: Representation and Mind
Edition: 1
Publisher: The MIT Press
Year: 1998

Language: English
Commentary: copyright page & TOC missing
Pages: 146