TY - BOOK
T1 - Qualia and mental causation in a physical world
T2 - Themes from the philosophy of Jaegwon Kim
AU - Horgan, Terence
AU - Sabates, Marcelo
AU - Sosa, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Cambridge University Press 2015.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - How does mind fit into nature? Philosophy has long been concerned with this question. No contemporary philosopher has done more to clarify it than Jaegwon Kim, a distinguished analytic philosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. With new contributions from an outstanding line-up of eminent scholars, this volume focuses on issues raised in Kim's work. The chapters cluster around two themes: first, exclusion, supervenience, and reduction, with attention to the causal exclusion argument for which Kim is widely celebrated; and second, phenomenal consciousness and qualia, with attention to the prospects for a functionalist account of the mental. This volume is sure to become a major focus of attention and research in the disciplines of metaphysics and philosophy of mind.
AB - How does mind fit into nature? Philosophy has long been concerned with this question. No contemporary philosopher has done more to clarify it than Jaegwon Kim, a distinguished analytic philosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. With new contributions from an outstanding line-up of eminent scholars, this volume focuses on issues raised in Kim's work. The chapters cluster around two themes: first, exclusion, supervenience, and reduction, with attention to the causal exclusion argument for which Kim is widely celebrated; and second, phenomenal consciousness and qualia, with attention to the prospects for a functionalist account of the mental. This volume is sure to become a major focus of attention and research in the disciplines of metaphysics and philosophy of mind.
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U2 - 10.1017/CBO9781139939539
DO - 10.1017/CBO9781139939539
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:84954187536
SN - 9781107077836
BT - Qualia and mental causation in a physical world
PB - Cambridge University Press
ER -