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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Making sense of emergence
- The layered world : metaphysical considerations
- Emergence : core ideas and issues
- Supervenient and yet not deducible : is there a coherent concept of ontological emergence?
- Reasons and the first person
- Taking the agent's point of view seriously in action explanation
- Explanatory realism, casual realism, and explanatory exclusion
- Explanatory knowledge and metaphysical dependence
- Hempel, explanation, metaphysics
- Reduction and reductive explanation : is one possible without the other?
- Can supervenience and "non-strict" laws save anomalous monism?
- Causation and mental causation
- Two concepts of realization, mental causation, and physicalism
- Why there are no laws in the special sciences : three arguments.