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Physicalism, or something near enough / Jaegwon Kim

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Princeton monographs in philosophyPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005Description: xiii, 186 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780691113753 0691113750
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BD418.3  .K55 2005
Contents:
Preface -- Synopsis of the arguments -- ch. 1. Mental causation and consciousness : our two mind-body problems -- Mental causation and consciousness -- The supervenience/exclusion argument -- Can we reduce qualia? -- The two world-knots -- ch. 2. The supervenience argument motivated, clarified, and defended -- Nonreductive physicalism -- The fundamental idea -- The supervenience argument refined and clarified -- Is overdetermination an option? -- The generalization argument -- Block's causal drainage argument -- ch. 3. The rejection of immaterial minds : a causal argument -- Cartesian dualism and mental causation -- Causation and the "pairing" problem -- Causality and space -- Why not locate souls in space? -- Concluding remarks.
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Preface -- Synopsis of the arguments -- ch. 1. Mental causation and consciousness : our two mind-body problems -- Mental causation and consciousness -- The supervenience/exclusion argument -- Can we reduce qualia? -- The two world-knots -- ch. 2. The supervenience argument motivated, clarified, and defended -- Nonreductive physicalism -- The fundamental idea -- The supervenience argument refined and clarified -- Is overdetermination an option? -- The generalization argument -- Block's causal drainage argument -- ch. 3. The rejection of immaterial minds : a causal argument -- Cartesian dualism and mental causation -- Causation and the "pairing" problem -- Causality and space -- Why not locate souls in space? -- Concluding remarks.

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