Status Updates From Physicalism, or Something N...

Jaegon Kim wrote clearly enough, but his "synopsis of the argument"almost scared me off. It's impenetrable unless you've already read the book or have an extensive background in late 20th–early 21st analytic philosophy of mind. It makes more sense if you read each paragraph after the chapter it summarizes, save it all till you've read the whole book, or read it as part of a course that includes lectures.

Kim's arguments are very interesting but I believe that Ned Block has a point against his supervenience argument. Overdetermination and physical exclusion seem like silly criteria for a truly physics-based explanation of the world. It is also interesting how he turns casual drainage argument against the Block. I believe that instantiation of physical property P* by property P cannot be the full explanation.