Physicalism, or something near enough / Jaegwon Kim.
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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Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock :
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2008.
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| Series: | Princeton monographs in philosophy.
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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.