Physicalism, or something near enough /
Jaegwon Kim
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005
- xiii, 186 p. ; 22 cm.
- Princeton monographs in philosophy .
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.