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Physicalism, or Something Near Enough /
Contemporary discussions in philosophy of mind have largely been shaped by physicalism, the doctrine that all phenomena are ultimately physical. Here, Jaegwon Kim presents the most comprehensive and systematic presentation yet of his influential ideas on the mind-body problem. He seeks to determine,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Woodstock :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Synopsis of the Arguments; 1: Mental Causation and Consciousness: Our Two Mind-Body Problems; 2: The Supervenience Argument Motivated, Clarified, and Defended; 3: The Rejection of Immaterial Minds: A Causal Argument; 4: Reduction, Reductive Explanation, and Closing the "Gap"; 5: Explanatory Arguments for Type Physicalism and Why They Don't Work; 6: Physicalism, or Something Near Enough; References; Index.