Supervenience and Mind Selected Philosophical Essays

Name: Supervenience and Mind Selected Philosophical Essays
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ISBN: 9780521439961

ISBN-10: 0521439965

ISBN-13: 9780521439961

Edition: 1993

Authors: Jaegwon Kim, Jonathan Dancy, John Haldane, Gilbert Harman, Frank Jackson

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Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/26/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.46" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Gilbert Harman is Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and the author of Explaining Value and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy and Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind.



Preface


Sources



Events and supervenience



Causation, nomic subsumption, and the concept of event



Noncausal connections



Events as property exemplifications



Concepts of supervenience



"Strong" and "global" supervenience revisited



Epiphenomenal and supervenient causation



Supervenience for multiple domains



Supervenience as a philosophical concept



Postscripts on supervenience



Mind and mental causation



Psychophysical supervenience



Psychophysical laws



What is "naturalized epistemology"?



Mechanism, purpose, and explanatory exclusion



The myth of nonreductive materialism



Dretske on how reasons explain behavior



Multiple realization and the metaphysics of reduction



The nonreductivist's troubles with mental causation



Postscripts on mental causadon


Index