Physicalism, or Something Near Enough

Physicalism, or Something Near Enough
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Download or read book Physicalism, or Something Near Enough written by Terence Horgan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaegwon Kim (1934-019) was one of the most influential metaphysicians and philosophers of mind in the last third of the Twentieth Century and early Twenty-First Century. In metaphysics, he did pioneering work on events, supervenience, emergence, higher-level causation, properties, and the metaphysics of the special sciences. His highly influential work in the philosophy of mind centered around the mind-body problem. This special issue of Protosciology is in his honor.


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