Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation

By Jaegwon Kim. 2001

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Life and mind: From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology. A tribute to Francisco Varela (2004, neutral): “See Chalmers (1996, 1997) and Kim (1998).”
Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: Psi: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition (2009, background): “Physicalism (or materialism, the philosophical idea that everything is either material or supervenes on the material) is often associated with functionalism—there is not much controversy between functionalists and materialists, functionalists are usually proponents of physicalism (Maslin, 2001, p. 1”
A Functional Account of Causation; or, A Defense of the Legitimacy of Causal Thinking by Reference to the Only Standard That Matters—Usefulness (as Opposed to Metaphysics or Agreement with Intuitive Judgment) (2014, background): “1, from Kim 1998), which I use for heuristic purposes, despite its being misleading in many ways.”
Levels: descriptive, explanatory, and ontological (2019, background): “60See, e.g., Block (2003) and, on the exclusion argument, Kim (1998). accepts an “exclusion principle” which prohibits the simultaneous ascription of distinct lower-level and higher-level causes for the same event.”