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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2007]
©2005
Year of Publication:2007
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Monographs in Philosophy ; 19
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 3 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Synopsis of the Arguments
  • CHAPTER 1. Mental Causation and Consciousness: Our Two Mind-Body Problems
  • CHAPTER 2. The Supervenience Argument Motivated, Clarified, and Defended
  • CHAPTER 4. Reduction, Reductive Explanation, and Closing the "Gap"
  • CHAPTER 5. Explanatory Arguments for Type Physicalism and Why They Don't Work
  • CHAPTER 6. Physicalism, or Something Near Enough
  • References
  • Index