--- product_id: 66678015 title: "Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation (Representation and Mind)" brand: "jaegwon kim" price: "€ 69.93" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/66678015-mind-in-a-physical-world-an-essay-on-the-mind store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation (Representation and Mind) **Brand:** jaegwon kim **Price:** € 69.93 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation (Representation and Mind) by jaegwon kim - **How much does it cost?** € 69.93 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/66678015-mind-in-a-physical-world-an-essay-on-the-mind) ## Best For - jaegwon kim enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted jaegwon kim brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation (Representation and Mind) ## Images ![Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation (Representation and Mind) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71wMZQPmRyL.jpg) ![Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation (Representation and Mind) - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71WqE1xpvDL.jpg) ![Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation (Representation and Mind) - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31gWRcIfhJL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars *by H***K on Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2017* Classic. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Good discussion on supervenience *by J***B on Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2015* Jaegwon Kim offers a weakened physicalist discussion of supervenience and the difficulties it presents for current alternatives to Mind-Body dualism. There is some technical language but it is kept at a minimum. Of primary importance is Kim’s remarkably lucid discussion of “supervenience.”Supervenience tries to explain how mental properties and physical kinds, not tokens, are related. Mental properties supervene on physical properties: For any property M, if anything has M at time t, then there exists a physical base (subvenient) property P such that it has P at t, and necessarily anything that has P at a time has M at that time (Kim 9). This means “every mental property has a physical base that guarantees its instantiation” (10). Thus, mental properties supervene on physical properties. The takeaway is that mental properties must always have a physical base. This is an improvement on older materialist models which said mental properties were physical properties.Supervenience presents a number of problems for physicalism, however. What happens if mental property M causes another mental property M* to be instantiated? For example, my having the state “anger” causes me to have the mental state depression/fear/whatever. This means that, if supervenience holds, M* must also have a physical property P* as its physical base. Two problems immediately arise:a. It appears that a mental property (M) is causing a physical base (P*) which then launches M*. Yet reductionists hold that all things have a physical cause. But this raises the problem:b. So what causes M*? It seems we have multiple causes, overdetermination.Kim restates the problem: if mental properties are physically irreducible and remain outside the physical domain, then, given that the physical domain is causally closed, how can they exercise causal powers (Kim 58)?ConclusionIn terms of an introductory text, albeit a rigorous one, I highly recommend this book. Admittedly, Kim doesn’t solve the problem (cf. p. 58), nor does he pretend to. He introduces the reader to the relevant terminology and explains why certain moves available to physicalists cannot work. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars A Defunct Reductionism *by E***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2006* This book amalgamates and contextualizes much of Kim's journal publications within the last twenty years. So, readers expecting something entirely fresh may be a bit disappointed. That being said, this book, or the equivalent articles, is a must for anyone wishing to espouse functionalist second-order properties, or is hunting new ways of maintaining the strict physicalism of the mind. To Kim's credit, significant criticisms have been few and far between, and most share the attitude and thinness of Ned Block's causal drainage argument that if there is no ultimate atom, causal powers seep into minute infinity.I might add, as somewhat of a disclaimer - just so you don't blame me later - this little book has all the dormitivity of a hand full of Seconals washed down with a bottle of Beefeater. 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