Title: Mind in a Physical World
First published: 1998
Description: 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.
Subjects: Causation, Mind and body, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy, Philosophie de l'esprit, Esprit et corps, Causalité, Kausalität, Leib-Seele-Problem, Reduktionismus, Lichaam en geest, Causaliteit, Reductionisme, Geist, Mind & Body, Speculative Philosophy, Philosophy & Religion
LC classification: BD418.3 .K53 1998