Kim Physicalism, or Something Near Enough

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Kim, Jaegwon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface xi

Synopsis of the Arguments 1

CHAPTER 1: Mental Causation and Consciousness: Our Two Mind-Body Problems 7

Mental Causation and Consciousness 8

The Supervenience/Exclusion Argument 13

Can We Reduce Qualia? 22

The Two World-Knots 29

CHAPTER 2: The Supervenience Argument Motivated, Clarified, and Defended 32

Nonreductive Physicalism 33

The Fundamental Idea 36

The Supervenience Argument Refined and Clarified 39

Is Overdetermination an Option? 46

The Generalization Argument 52

Block's Causal Drainage Argument 57

CHAPTER 3: The Rejection of Immaterial Minds: A Causal Argument 70

Cartesian Dualism and Mental Causation 72

Causation and the "Pairing" Problem 78

Causality and Space 85

Why Not Locate Souls in Space? 88

Concluding Remarks 91

CHAPTER 4: Reduction, Reductive Explanation, and Closing the "Gap" 93

Reduction and Reductive Explanation 95

Bridge-Law Reduction and Functional Reduction 98

Explanatory Ascent and Constraint (R) 103

Functional Reduction and Reductive Explanation 108

Kripkean Identities and Reductive Explanation 113

Remarks about Block and Stalnaker's Proposal 117

CHAPTER 5: Explanatory Arguments for Type Physicalism and Why They Don't Work 121

Are There Positive Arguments for Type Physicalism? 123

Hill's and McLaughlin's Explanatory Argument 126

Do Psychoneural Identities Explain Psychoneural Correlations? 131

Block and Stalnaker's Explanatory Argument 139

Another Way of Looking at the Two Explanatory Arguments 146

CHAPTER 6: Physicalism, or Something Near Enough 149

Taking Stock 150

Physicalism at a Crossroads 156

Reducing Minds 161

Living with the Mental Residue 170

Where We Are at Last with the Mind-Body Problem 173

References 175

Index 181

Über Autor(innen)

Jaegwon Kim is William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. His previous books include Mind in a Physical World, Philosophy of Mind, and Supervenience and Mind.