Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World : Themes From the Philosophy of Jaegwon Kim

How Does Mind Fit Into Nature? Philosophy Has Long Been Concerned With This Question. No Contemporary Philosopher Has Done More To Clarify It Than Jaegwon Kim, A Distinguished Analytic Philosopher Specializing In Metaphysics And Philosophy Of Mind. With New Contributions From An Outstanding Lineup Of Eminent Scholars, This Volume Focuses On Issues Raised In Kim's Work. The Chapters Cluster Around Two Themes: First, Exclusion, Supervenience, And Reduction, With Attention To The Causal Exclusion Argument For Which Kim Is Widely Celebrated, And, Second, Phenomenal Consciousness And Qualia, With Attention To The Prospects For A Functionalist Account Of The Mental. This Volume Is Sure To Become A Major Focus Of Attention And Research In The Disciplines Of Metaphysics And Philosophy Of Mind-- 1. Reality And Reduction: What's Really At Stake In The Causal Exclusion Debate -- 2. Two Property Theories And The Causal Conundrum For Physicalism -- 3. Mental Causation: The Free Lunch -- 4. Does Mental Causation Require Psychophysical Identities? -- 5. The Canberra Plan Neglects Ground -- 6. Microrealization And The Mental -- 7. Supervenience And The Causal Explanation Of Behavior -- 8. Visual Awareness And Visual Qualia -- 9. Phenomenal Externalism, Lolita, And The Planet Xenon -- 10. Troubles For Radical Transparency -- 11. How Theories Work: Open Questions For Methodological Philosophy Of Science. Edited By Terence Horgan, Marcelo Sabates And David Sosa. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Reality and reduction: What's really at stake in the causal exclusion debate; 2 Two property theories and the causal conundrum for physicalism; 3 Mental causation: The free lunch; 4 Does mental causation require psychophysical identities?; 5 The Canberra Plan neglects ground; 6 Microrealization and the mental; 7 Supervenience and the causal explanation of behavior; 8 Visual awareness and visual qualia; 9 Phenomenal externalism, Lolita, and the planet Xenon; 10 Troubles for radical transparency How does mind fit into nature? No contemporary philosopher has done more to clarify this question than Jaegwon Kim, a distinguished analytic philosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. With new contributions from an outstanding line-up of eminent scholars, this volume focuses on issues raised in Kim's work. A collection of new essays that develop themes from the work of the philosopher Jaegwon Kim