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Author:   Jaegwon Kim (Brown University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.656kg
ISBN:  

9780199585878

ISBN 10:   0199585873
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   21 October 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1. Making sense of emergence ; 2. The layered world: Metaphysical considerations ; 3. Emergence: Core ideas and issues ; 4. ""Supervenient and yet not deducible"": Is there a coherent concept of ontological emergence? ; 5. Reasons and the first person ; 6. Taking the agent's point of view seriously in action explanation ; 7. Explanatory realism, causal realism, and explanatory exclusion ; 8. Explanatory knowledge and metaphysical dependence ; 9. Hempel, explanation, metaphysics ; 10. Reduction and reductive explanation: Is one possible without the other? ; 11. Can supervenience and ""non-strict"" laws save anomalous monism? ; 12. Causation and mental causation ; 13. Two concepts of realization, mental causation, and physicalism ; 14. Why there are no laws in the special sciences: Three arguments ; Index"

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a valuable addition to the literature on the metaphysics on the mind Grant Gillett, Philosophy

<br> It is written in Kim's usual lucid and concise style and offers novel and intriguing arguments that will be of great interest to all philosophers of mind (and beyond). --Metapsychology<p><br>

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Jaegwon Kim received his PhD from Princeton University in 1962 and has taught at Swarthmore College, the University of Michigan, Cornell University, and University of Notre Dame. He is presently William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. Kim is past President of the American Philosophical Association and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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