Qualia and mental causation in a physical world: Themes from the philosophy of Jaegwon Kim PDF
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QUALIA AND MENTAL CAUSATION IN A PHYSICAL WORLD Howdoesmindfitintonature?Philosophyhaslongbeenconcerned with this question. No contemporary philosopher has done more toclarifyitthanJaegwonKim,adistinguishedanalyticphilosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. With new contributions from an outstanding lineup of eminent scholars, this volumefocusesonissuesraisedinKim’swork.Thechapterscluster 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,withattentiontotheprospectsforafunctionalistaccountof themental.Thisvolumeissuretobecomeamajorfocusofattention andresearchinthedisciplinesofmetaphysicsandphilosophyofmind. terence horgan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. marcelo sabate´s is Associate Provost for International Programs atKansasStateUniversity. david sosaisTempleProfessorintheHumanitiesattheUniversity ofTexasatAustin. QUALIA AND MENTAL CAUSATION IN A PHYSICAL WORLD Themes from the Philosophy of Jaegwon Kim EDITED BY TERENCE HORGAN, ´ MARCELO SABATES, AND DAVID SOSA UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107077836 (cid:2)C CambridgeUniversityPress2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary isbn978-1-107-07783-6Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof urlsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents Listofcontributors pagevii Preface ix 1 Realityandreduction:What’sreallyatstakeinthecausal exclusiondebate 1 LouiseM.Antony 2 Twopropertytheoriesandthecausalconundrumfor physicalism 25 FrankJackson 3 Mentalcausation:Thefreelunch 40 BarryLoewer 4 Doesmentalcausationrequirepsychophysicalidentities? 64 BrianP.McLaughlin 5 TheCanberraPlanneglectsground 105 NedBlock 6 Microrealizationandthemental 134 SydneyShoemaker 7 Supervenienceandthecausalexplanationofbehavior 154 FredDretske 8 Visualawarenessandvisualqualia 167 ChristopherHill 9 Phenomenalexternalism,Lolita,andtheplanetXenon 190 MichaelTye 10 Troublesforradicaltransparency 209 JamesVanCleve v vi 11 Howtheorieswork:Openquestionsformethodological philosophyofscience 231 LawrenceSklar References 252 Index 262 Contributors louise m. antony is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts,Amherst. ned block is Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Neural ScienceatNewYorkUniversity. fred dretske was, at the time of his passing in 2013, Senior Research ScholarinPhilosophyatDukeUniversity. christopher hill isProfessorofPhilosophyatBrownUniversity. frank jacksonisDistinguishedProfessorintheSchoolofPhilosophyat theAustralianNationalUniversityandVisitingProfessorofPhilosophy atPrincetonUniversity. barry loewer isDistinguishedProfessorofPhilosophyandDirectorof theRutgersCenterforPhilosophyofScienceatRutgersUniversity. brian p. mclaughlin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and CognitiveScienceatRutgersUniversity. sydney shoemakerisSusanLinnSageProfessorEmeritusofPhilosophy atCornellUniversity. lawrence sklar is Carl G. Hempel and William K. Frankena Distin- guished University Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan, AnnArbor. michael tye istheDallasTACACentennialProfessorinLiberalArtsat theUniversityofTexas,Austin. james van cleveisProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofSouthern California. vii
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