Supervenience and mind

Cambridge University Press

1993

xviii, 377 p.

Cambridge studies in philosophy

0521433940

Part 1: Events and supervenience. Causation, nomic subsumption, and the concept of event – Noncausal connections – Events as property exemplifications – Concepts of supervenience – "Strong" and "global" supervenience revisited – Epiphenomenal and supervenient causation – Supervenience for multiple domains – Supervenience as a philosophical concept – Postscripts on supervenience. Part 2: Mind and mental causation. Psychophysical supervenience – Psychophysical laws – What is "naturalized epistemology"? – Mechanism, purpose, and explanatory exclusion – The myth of nonreductive materialism – Dretske on how reasons explain behavior – Multiple realization and the metaphysics of reduction – The nonreductivist's troubles with mental causation – Postscripts on mental causation.

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