Jaegwon Kim is one of the most preeminent and most influential contributors to the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. This collection of essays presents the core of his work on supervenience and mind with two sets of postscripts especially written for the book. The essays focus on such issues as the nature of causation and events, what dependency relations other than causal relations connect facts and events, the analysis of supervenience, and the mind-body problem. A central problem in the philosophy of mind is the problem of explaining how the mind can causally influence bodily processes. Professor Kim explores this problem in detail, criticizes the nonreductionist solution of it, and offers a modified reductionist solution of his own. Both professional philosophers and their graduate students will find this an invaluable collection.
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"Kim's papers in this area have had tremendous impact in philosophy, and I think this book would be regarded as a 'must-buy' item by very many philosophers working in metaphysics and in philosophy of mind." Terry Horgan, Memphis State University
"Kim's work is at the center of current discussion of supervenience, the relation of supervenience to reductionism, the nature of mental causation, and related issues in the philosophy of mind. Although his work on these topics is often cited, it is scattered in various journals volumes, etc., and often difficult to track down. It would be enormously useful to have this work, or what he regards as the core of it, collected in a single place." Sydney Shoemaker, Cornell University
"Kim's work is at the center of current discussion of supervenience, the relation of supervenience to reductionism, the nature of mental causation, and related issues in the philosophy of mind. Although his work on these topics is often cited, it is scattered in various journals volumes, etc., and often difficult to track down. It would be enormously useful to have this work, or what he regards as the core of it, collected in a single place." Sydney Shoemaker, Cornell University
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Representing one of the most preeminent and influential contributors to the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, this collection of essays presents the core of his work on supervenience and mind with two sets of postscripts especially written for the book.
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This anthology of Kim's papers is really fundamental to anyone willing to study the metaphysics of mind. There are also papers on causality, events and epistemology. However, the core of the book is the seminal work laid by Kim on supervenience and its relation to the mind-body problem.I really cannot believe how can Kim manage to be at the same precise, technical and transparently clear. Some of the papers contained in here are already classics in the field. I have learned A LOT from Kim. I hope you benefit from his work as I have.
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Jaegwon Kim's "Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays" is an absolute must-read for any philosopher working in the philosophy of mind. Of particular interest, Kim lays out his views in supervenience and its relation to the mind-body problem, discusses and (in my view) deals a death-blow to Donald Davidson's anomalous monism, and begins the development of his views on reductionism that come to fruition in his "Mind in a Physical World" (also a great read). Kim's work is a paradigm of thoroughness, both in material covered and the scope of his application of a few key ideas. Also of particular interest is Kim's work in event theory, which is developed in the first few essays, and which, though neglected for some time, has been the subject of several recent journal articles in application to problems associated with natural kinds.
All-in-all, a great set of essays by, in my view, one of the greatest living philosophers.
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In his celebrated discussion of causation Hume identified four prima facie constituents in the relation of causation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contiguous causation, global psychophysical supervenience, supervenient domain, macrocausal relations, parasitic constant conjunctions, explanatory exclusion principle, epiphenomenal causation, psychophysical anomalism, global supervenience, explanatory compatibility, property covariation, mereological supervenience, mental anomalism, moral supervenience, physical realization bases, weak supervenience, strong supervenience, strong connectibility, supervenient causal relations, subvenient properties, nomic kind, subvenient set, supervenient dependence, realization thesis, correlation thesis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Donald Davidson, Oxford University Press, Physical Realization Thesis, Terence Horgan, David Lewis, Ernest Sosa, American Philosophical Quarterly, Hilary Putnam, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Making Mind Matter, Van Cleve, The Nature of Mental States, Cambridge University Press, Midwest Studies, Psychological Anomalism, Philosophy of Psychology, Theory of Universals, Barry Loewer, Harvard University Press, Ned Block, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Paul Teller, Clarendon Press New!
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In his celebrated discussion of causation Hume identified four prima facie constituents in the relation of causation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contiguous causation, global psychophysical supervenience, supervenient domain, macrocausal relations, parasitic constant conjunctions, explanatory exclusion principle, epiphenomenal causation, psychophysical anomalism, global supervenience, explanatory compatibility, property covariation, mereological supervenience, mental anomalism, moral supervenience, physical realization bases, weak supervenience, strong supervenience, strong connectibility, supervenient causal relations, subvenient properties, nomic kind, subvenient set, supervenient dependence, realization thesis, correlation thesis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Donald Davidson, Oxford University Press, Physical Realization Thesis, Terence Horgan, David Lewis, Ernest Sosa, American Philosophical Quarterly, Hilary Putnam, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Making Mind Matter, Van Cleve, The Nature of Mental States, Cambridge University Press, Midwest Studies, Psychological Anomalism, Philosophy of Psychology, Theory of Universals, Barry Loewer, Harvard University Press, Ned Block, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Paul Teller, Clarendon Press New!
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