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Jaegwon Kim - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • thoughts on sydney shoemaker s physical realization
    Philosophical Studies, 2010
    Co-Authors: Jaegwon Kim
    Abstract:

    This paper discusses in broad terms the metaphysical projects of Sydney Shoemaker’s Physical Realization. Specifically, I examine the effectiveness of Shoemaker’s novel “subset” account of realization for defusing the problem of mental causation, and compare the “subset” account with the standard “second-order” account. Finally, I discuss the physicalist status of the metaphysical worldview presented in Shoemaker’s important new contribution to Philosophy of Mind and metaphysics.

  • supervenience and Mind selected philosophical essays
    1993
    Co-Authors: Jaegwon Kim
    Abstract:

    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 facts and events, the analysis of supervenience, and the Mind-body problem. A central problem in the Philosophy of Mind is the problem of explaining how the Mind can causally influence bodily processes. Professor Kim explores this problem in detail, criticises the nonreductionist solution of it, and offers a modified reductionist solution of his own. Both professional philosophers and their graduate students will find this an invaluable collection.

Louise Antony - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • realization theory and the Philosophy of Mind comments on sydney shoemaker s physical realization
    Philosophical Studies, 2010
    Co-Authors: Louise Antony
    Abstract:

    Ten years ago, if you went to the store for laundry detergent, you'd find enormous jugs of the stuff. Nowadays, in our more ecologically-Minded times, the detergent has been concentrated and repackaged in containers a quarter of the original size. In keeping with the spirit of the age, Shoemaker has taken the amount of Philosophy it used to take several volumes to hold and concentrated it into this slim little book. You can do a lot of philosophical laundry with what's in here. It's a privilege and an honor to have this opportunity to discuss it. of the myriad topics treated in Realization, I'd like to concentrate on two that particularly interest me as a philosopher of Mind: first, cross-subject property realization, or realization 2 , and second, the causal profiles of multiply realizable properties. Most of my time will be devoted to the first.

Dan Zahavi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Keith R Sawyer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • nonreductive individualism part i supervenience and wild disjunction
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2002
    Co-Authors: Keith R Sawyer
    Abstract:

    The author draws on arguments from contemporary Philosophy of Mind to provide an argument for sociological collectivism. This argument for nonreductive individualism accepts that only individuals exist but rejects methodological individualism. In Part I, the author presents the argument for nonreductive individualism by working through the implications of supervenience, multiple realizability, and wild disjunction in some detail. In Part II, he extends the argument to provide a defense for social causal laws, and this account of social causation does not require any commitment to intentionality or agency on the part of individuals.

  • emergence in sociology contemporary Philosophy of Mind and some implications for sociological theory1
    American Journal of Sociology, 2001
    Co-Authors: Keith R Sawyer
    Abstract:

    Many accounts of the micro‐macro link use the philosophical notion of emergence to argue that collective phenomena are collaboratively created by individuals yet are not reducible to explanation in terms of individuals. However, emergence has also been invoked by methodological individualists; they accept the existence of emergent social properties yet claim that such properties can be reduced to explanations in terms of individuals and their relationships. Thus, contemporary sociological uses of emergence are contradictory and unstable. This article clarifies this situation by developing an account of emergence based in contemporary Philosophy of Mind. The philosophical account is used to evaluate contradictory sociological theories. Several unresolved issues facing theories of emergence in sociology are identified.

Gualtiero Piccinini - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.