Supervenience and Mind

Jaegwon Kim is one of the most pre-eminent and most influential contributors to the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. This collection of essays presents the core of his work on supervenience and mind with two sets of postscripts especially written for the book. The essays focus on such issues as the nature of causation and events, what dependency relations other than causal relations connect facts and events, the analysis of supervenience, and the mind-body problem. A central problem in the philosophy of mind is the problem of explaining how the mind can causally influence bodily processes. Professor Kim explores this problem in detail, criticises the nonreductionist solution of it, and offers a modified reductionist solution of his own. Both professional philosophers and their graduate students will find this an invaluable collection.

ISBN 0521433940   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780521433945 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 604 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Series editor Sosa, Ernest (Brown University), Sosa, Ernest (Brown University), Sosa, Ernest (Brown University) Format Hardback   Series title Cambridge Studies in Philosophy Publication date 26 Nov 1993   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress BD418.3 .K56 1993   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 128.2   Spine width (mm) 33 DEWEY edition DC20   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 397

		Preface
		Sources
Pt. I		Events and supervenience
1		Causation, nomic subsumption, and the concept of event		3
2		Noncausal connections		22
3		Events as property exemplifications		33
4		Concepts of supervenience		53
5		"Strong" and "global" supervenience revisited		79
6		Epiphenomenal and supervenient causation		92
7		Supervenience for multiple domains		109
8		Supervenience as a philosophical concept		131
9		Postscripts on supervenience		161
Pt. II		Mind and mental causation
10		Psychophysical supervenience		175
11		Psychophysical laws		194
12		What is "naturalized epistemology"?		216
13		Mechanism, purpose, and explanatory exclusion		237
14		The myth of nonreductive materialism		265
15		Dretske on how reasons explain behavior		285
16		Multiple realization and the metaphysics of reduction		309
17		The nonreductivist's troubles with mental causation		336
18		Postscripts on mental causadon		358
		Index		369

"Kim's papers in this area have had tremendous impact in philosophy, and I think this book would be regarded as a 'must-buy' item by very many philosophers working in metaphysics and in philosophy of mind." Terry Horgan, Memphis State University "Kim's work is at the center of current discussion of supervenience, the relation of supervenience to reductionism, the nature of mental causation, and related issues in the philosophy of mind. Although his work on these topics is often cited, it is scattered in various journals volumes, etc., and often difficult to track down. It would be enormously useful to have this work, or what he regards as the core of it, collected in a single place." Sydney Shoemaker, Cornell University

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