%0 Journal Article
%T Dewey's Metaphysics of Mind
%A Wilson Mendon£¿a
%J Abstracta : Linguagem, Mente e A£¿£¿o
%D 2007
%I Abstracta
%X In Experience and Nature Dewey makes "an attempt to contribute to what has come to be calledan 'emergent' theory of mind". On a first approach, that doesn't look very innovative to ourcontemporary materialist convictions. Indeed, Kim argues persuasively that a central claim ofemergentism - concerning the irreducibility of emergent properties - is irremediably at oddswith a view of mental causation that follows from some very plausible physicalist assumptions.This is "the problem of downward causation." I intend to show that Dewey's brand ofemergentism actually allows an adequate reply to the very important worry formulated by Kim.
%U http://www.abstracta.pro.br/english/journal/volume3number2/3_mendonca.pdf