Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World Horgan Sabates Sosa Hardback

Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical WorldThemes from the Philosophy of Jaegwon Kim\nAuthor(s): Terence Horgan, Marcelo Sabates, David Sosa\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107077836, 978-1107077836\nSynopsis\nHow 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 line-up 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 .