Abstract

Though the title of this book is a bit ambitious, its content does indeed grapple with one of the most difficult post-Cartesian problems of the philosophy of mind. It seeks to address the mind-body problem, employing the logic and language of the supervenience theory, while at the same time preserving a notion of intentionality that is not necessarily reducible to neurophysiological accounts of human behavior or activity. The presentation of the argument is careful, systematic and disciplined, though it may prove to be challenging reading for those unaccustom to its analytical style of argumentation and less accessible to those who are unfamiliar with modal logic in general and with the growing "supervenience hypothesis" literature in particular.