Supervenience and mind : selected philosophical essays /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kim, Jaegwon
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Series:	Cambridge studies in philosophy.
Subjects:	Philosophy of mind. Supervenience (Philosophy) Philosophie de l'esprit. Survenance (Philosophie) Filosofie van de geest. Mind > Philosophy

Table of Contents:

Part 1: 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.
Part 2: 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 causation.