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Author : Jaegwon Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521439965
This collection of essays presents the core of the work of influential philosopher Jaegwon Kim.
Author : Jaegwon Kim
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0262611538
This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of finding a place for the mind in a world that is fundamentally physical. Among other points, he redefines the roles of supervenience and emergence in the discussion of the mind-body problem. Arguing that various contemporary accounts of mental causation are inadequate, he offers his own partially reductionist solution on the basis of a novel model of reduction. Retaining the informal tone of the lecture format, the book is clear yet sophisticated.
Author : Jaegwon Kim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400840847
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, after half a century of debate: What kind of (or "how much") physicalism can we lay claim to? He begins by laying out mental causation and consciousness as the two principal challenges to contemporary physicalism. How can minds exercise their causal powers in a physical world? Is a physicalist account of consciousness possible? The book's starting point is the "supervenience" argument (sometimes called the "exclusion" argument), which Kim reformulates in an extended defense. This argument shows that the contemporary physicalist faces a stark choice between reductionism (the idea that mental phenomena are physically reducible) and epiphenomenalism (the view that mental phenomena are causally impotent). Along the way, Kim presents a novel argument showing that Cartesian substance dualism offers no help with mental causation. Mind-body reduction, therefore, is required to save mental causation. But are minds physically reducible? Kim argues that all but one type of mental phenomena are reducible, including intentional mental phenomena, such as beliefs and desires. The apparent exceptions are the intrinsic, felt qualities of conscious experiences ("qualia"). Kim argues, however, that certain relational properties of qualia, in particular their similarities and differences, are behaviorally manifest and hence in principle reducible, and that it is these relational properties of qualia that are central to their cognitive roles. The causal efficacy of qualia, therefore, is not entirely lost. According to Kim, then, while physicalism is not the whole truth, it is the truth near enough.
Author : Dalia Drai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429794001
First published in 1999, this volume focuses on the relation of supervenience which plays a crucial role in contemporary philosophical discussions in diverse fields including the philosophy of mind, ethics and aesthetics. Contrasting the material and conceptual worlds, Dalia Drai questions what we are committed to when we adopt a position affirming determination but denying reduction. The answer Drai develops is that in both cases this position commits us to an anti-realist approach with regard to the supervenient domains.
Author : Elias E. Savellos,Umit D. Yalcin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521039649
Supervenience is one of the hot "discoveries" of recent analytic philosophy, and this collection of new essays on the topic represents a "state of the art" examination of it and its application to major areas of philosophy. Hitherto a serious student had to track down scattered articles in journals on the subject. Now that reader can find some of the finest philosophers writing on this topic in a comprehensive, integrated anthology.
Author : Jaegwon Kim
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191625060
Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades. The volume includes three new essays, on an agent-centered first-person account of action explanation, the concepts of realization and their bearings on the mind-body problem, and the nonexistence of laws in the special sciences. Among other topics covered are emergence and emergentism, the nature of explanation and of theories of explanation, reduction and reductive explanation, mental causation and explanatory exclusion. Kim tackles questions such as: How should we understand the concept of "emergence", and what are the prospects of emergentism as a doctrine about the status of minds? What does an agent-centered, first-person account of explanation of human actions look like? Why aren't there strict laws in the special sciences - sciences like biology, psychology, and sociology? The essays will be accessible to attentive readers without an extensive philosophical background.
Author : Gerhard Preyer,Frank Siebelt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780585385631
If asked what Humeanism could mean today, there is no other philosopher to turn to whose work covers such a wide range of topics from a unified Humean perspective as that of David Lewis. The core of Lewis's many contributions to philosophy, including his work in philosophical ontology, intensional logic and semantics, probability and decision theory, topics within philosophy of science as well as a distinguished philosophy of mind, can be understood as the development of philosophical position that is centered around his conception of Humean supervenience. If we accept the thesis that it is physical science and not philosophical reasoning that will eventually arrive at the basic constituents of all matter pertaining to our world, then Humean supervenience is the assumption that all truths about our world will supervene on the class of physical truths in the following sense: There are no truths in any compartment of our world that cannot be accounted for in terms of differences and similarities among those properties and external space-time relations that are fundamental to our world according to physical science.
Author : Kevin Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108472166
Provides a philosophical and historical critique of contemporary conceptions of physicalism, especially non-reductive, levels-based approaches to physicalist metaphysics. Challenging assumptions about the mind-body problem, this accessible book will interest scholars working in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.
Author : Barry Loewer,Jonathan Schaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118607619
In A Companion to David Lewis, Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer bring together top philosophers to explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's seminal work in original ways. Students and scholars will discover the underlying themes and complex interconnections woven through the diverse range of his work in metaphysics, philosophy of language, logic, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics. The first and only comprehensive study of the work of David Lewis, one of the most systematic and influential philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century Contributions shed light on the underlying themes and complex interconnections woven through Lewis's work across his enormous range of influence, including metaphysics, language, logic, epistemology, science, mind, ethics, and aesthetics Outstanding Lewis scholars and leading philosophers working in the fields Lewis influenced explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's work in original ways An essential resource for students and researchers across analytic philosophy that covers the major themes of Lewis's work
Author : Mark Rowlands
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139430982
In The Nature of Consciousness, Mark Rowlands develops an innovative account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, one that has significant consequences for attempts to find a place for it in the natural order. The most significant feature of consciousness is its dual nature: consciousness can be both the directing of awareness and that upon which awareness is directed. Rowlands offers a clear and philosophically insightful discussion of the main positions in this fast-moving debate, and argues that the phenomenal aspects of conscious experience are aspects that exist only in the directing of experience towards non-phenomenal objects, a theory that undermines reductive attempts to explain consciousness in terms of what is not conscious. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the philosophy of mind and language, psychology and cognitive science.
Author : D. H. Mellor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199645084
Mind, Meaning, and Reality presents fifteen philosophical papers in which D. H. Mellor explores some of the most intriguing questions in philosophy. These include: what determines what we think, and what we use language to mean; how that depends on what there is in the world and why there is only one universe; and the nature of time.
Author : Anthony O'Hear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521639279
This book presents key issues in the philosophy of mind, examined by leading figures in the field.
Author : George Ellis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662498095
Physics underlies all complexity, including our own existence: how is this possible? How can our own lives emerge from interactions of electrons, protons, and neutrons? This book considers the interaction of physical and non-physical causation in complex systems such as living beings, and in particular in the human brain, relating this to the emergence of higher levels of complexity with real causal powers. In particular it explores the idea of top-down causation, which is the key effect allowing the emergence of true complexity and also enables the causal efficacy of non-physical entities, including the value of money, social conventions, and ethical choices.
Author : Jaegwon Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429974489
This book explores a range of issues in the philosophy of mind, with the mind-body problem as the main focus. It serves as a stimulus to the reader to engage with the problems of the mind and try to come to terms with them, and examines Descartes's mind-body dualism.
Author : Robert Hanna,Michelle Maiese
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199230310
Embodied Minds in Action works out a unified treatment of three fundamental philosophical problems: the mind-body problem, the problem of mental causation, and the problem of action. Hanna and Maiese offer a new paradigm for contemporary mainstream research in the philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience.