Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World

How does mind fit into nature? Philosophy has long been concerned with this question. No contemporary philosopher has done more to clarify it than Jaegwon Kim a distinguished analytic philosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. With new contributions from an outstanding line-up of eminent scholars this volume focuses on issues raised in Kim''s work. The chapters cluster around two themes: first exclusion supervenience and reduction with attention to the causal exclusion argument for which Kim is widely celebrated; and second phenomenal consciousness and qualia with attention to the prospects for a functionalist account of the mental. This volume is sure to become a major focus of attention and research in the disciplines of metaphysics and philosophy of mind.