This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in par

We have seen remarkable progress in our detailed understanding of the physical world, from the smallest constituents of atoms to the remotest distances seen by

A collection of new essays that develop themes from the work of the philosopher Jaegwon Kim.

"The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe. We now know that the world is governed by physics. We now understand the way biol

According to Russellian monism, an alternative to the familiar theories in the philosophy of mind that combines attractive components of physicalism and dualism