附註:"A Bradford book."
Book consists of four revised lectures given by the author as the Townsend Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, in Mar. 1996.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-139) and index.
Chapter 1 -- The Mind-Body Problem: Where We Now Are -- Supervenience, Realization, and Emergence -- Supervenience Is Not a Mind-Body Theory -- The Layered Model and Mereological Supervenience -- Physical Realizationism -- Physical Realizationism Explains Mind-Body Supervenience -- Chapter 2 -- The Many Problems of Mental Causation -- Three Problems of Mental Causation -- The Supervenience Argument, or Descartes's Revenge -- Searle, Fodor, and the Supervenience Argument -- Block's Worries about Second-Order Properties -- Chapter 3 -- Mental Causation: The Backlash and Free Lunches -- Unavoidability of Metaphysics: The Exclusion Problem -- Do Counterfactuals Help? -- "Program Explanation" and Supervenient Causation -- Does the Problem of Mental Causation Generalize? -- Properties: "Levels" and "Orders" -- Chapter 4 -- Reduction and Reductionism: A New Look -- Nagel Reduction: Troubles with 'Bridge Laws' -- The Functional Model of Reduction -- Functional Properties versus Functional Concepts -- Multiple Realization Again -- The Supervenience Argument Revisited -- The Options: Good News and Bad News -- Notes -- References -- Index.
摘要:"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. Retaining the informal tone of the lecture format, the book is clear yet sophisticated"--Publisher.
