Jaegwon Kim is one of the most pre-eminent and most influential contributors to the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. This collection of essays presents the core of his work on supervenience and mind with two sets of postscripts especially written for the book. The essays focus on such issues as the nature of causation and events, what dependency relations other than causal relations connect...
Fred Dretske is surely right when he says that most of those who accept content externalism believe, or simply assume, that qualia internal, or, if you prefer, the In fact, externalists apt to acknowledge that these the only purely internal residues of mentality. And if you a physicalist of any stripe, as most of us are, you would likely believe in the local supervenience of qualia -that is,...
The problem of mental causation, broadly, is that of explaining how it is possible for mental events to enter into causal relations with other events, whether mental or physical. Somewhat more narrowly, it is the problem of explaining how it is possible for mental events to causally affect the (physical) behavior of physical systems. Although the problem was coeval with the mind-body problem...