Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind

by Jaegwon Kim

Book Overview

Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades. The volume includes three new essays, on an agent-centered first-person account of action explanation, the concepts of realization and their bearings on the mind-body problem, and the nonexistence of laws in the special sciences. Among other topics covered are emergence and emergentism, the nature of explanation and of theories of explanation, reduction and reductive explanation,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199585881
• ISBN13: 9780199585885
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"