The Conceptual Link From Physical to Mental

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013)
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How are truths about physical and mental states related? Robert Kirk articulates and defends 'redescriptive physicalism'--a fresh approach to the connection between the physical and the mental, which answers the problems that mental causation has traditionally raised for other non-reductive views

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