Supervenience and Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Supervenience and Mind write by Jaegwon Kim. This book was released on 1993-11-26. Supervenience and Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays presents the core of the work of influential philosopher Jaegwon Kim.
Mind in a Physical World
Mind in a Physical World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mind in a Physical World write by Jaegwon Kim. This book was released on 2000. Mind in a Physical World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Physicalism, or Something Near Enough
Physicalism, or Something Near Enough - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Physicalism, or Something Near Enough write by Jaegwon Kim. This book was released on 2007-12-03. Physicalism, or Something Near Enough available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity
Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity write by Robert J. Howell. This book was released on 2013-06-14. Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity Robert J. Howell argues that the options in the debates about consciousness and the mind-body problem are more limited than many philosophers have appreciated. Unless one takes a hard-line stance, which either denies the data provided by consciousness or makes a leap of faith about future discoveries, one must admit that no objective picture of our world can be complete. Howell argues, however, that this is consistent with physicalism, contrary to received wisdom. After developing a novel, neo-Cartesian notion of the physical, followed by a careful consideration of the three major anti-materialist arguments—Black's 'Presentation Problem', Jackson's Knowledge Argument, and Chalmers' Conceivability Argument—Howell proposes a 'subjective physicalism' which gives the data of consciousness their due, while retaining the advantages of a monistic, physical ontology.
Physicalism Deconstructed
Physicalism Deconstructed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Physicalism Deconstructed write by Kevin Morris. This book was released on 2019. Physicalism Deconstructed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
