Identity, Cause, and Mind Philosophical Essays [Hardcover]

This is an expanded edition of Sydney Shoemaker's seminal collection of his work on interrelated issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Reproducing all of the original papers, many of which are now regarded as classics, and including four papers published since the first edition appeared in 1984,Identity, Cause, and Mind's reappearance will be warmly welcomed by philosophers and students alike.

Preface to the Second Edition
1. Self-reference and self-awareness
2. Persons and their pasts
3. Time without change
4. On projecting the unprojectible
5. Conceptual connections and other minds
6. Embodiment and behavior
7. Immortality and dualism
8. Phenomenal similarity
9. Functionalism and qualia
10. Causality and properties
11. Identity, properties, and causality
12. Some varieties of functionalism
13. On an argument for dualism
14. Absent qualia are impossible - a reply to Block
15. The inverted spectrum
16. On what there are
17. Self and substance
18. Causal and metaphysical necessity
19. Realization and mental causation
References
Index