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Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind.

Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades, on a set of related topics for which he has played a leading role in shaping philosophical debate, such as emergence explanation, reduction, and mental causation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kim, Jaegwon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Sources and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Making Sense of Emergence
  • 2. The Layered World: Metaphysical Considerations
  • 3. Emergence: Core Ideas and Issues
  • 4. Supervenient and Yet Not Deducible: Is There a Coherent Concept of Ontological Emergence?
  • 5. Reasons and the First Person
  • 6. Taking the Agentâ€?s Point of View Seriously in Action Explanation
  • 7. Explanatory Realism, Causal Realism, and Explanatory Exclusion
  • 8. Explanatory Knowledge and Metaphysical Dependence
  • 9. Hempel, Explanation, Metaphysics
  • 10. Reduction and Reductive Explanation: Is One Possible Without the Other?11. Can Supervenience and Non-Strict Laws Save Anomalous Monism?
  • 12. Causation and Mental Causation
  • 13. Two Concepts of Realization, Mental Causation, and Physicalism
  • 14. Why There Are No Laws in the Special Sciences: Three Arguments
  • Index
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