creators_name: Post, John F. type: journalp datestamp: 1999-09-02 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:52 metadata_visibility: show title: Review of Jaegwon Kim, Supervenience and Mind ispublished: pub subjects: bio-evo subjects: bio-theory subjects: evol-psy subjects: phil-metaphys subjects: phil-mind subjects: phil-sci subjects: psy-bio full_text_status: public keywords: individualism, individualist, individuation, supervenience, supervene, dependence, determination, determine, nonreductive determination, Kim, Millikan, reduction, explanation, physicalism, identity, global supervenience, weak supervenience, realization, physical realization, psychoneural reduction, materialism, property, dualism, property dualism, kinds, natural kinds, adaptation, correlation thesis, Alexander's dictum, causal individuation of kinds, downward causation, nonreductive physicalism, nonreductive materialism, function, teleofunction, proper function abstract: "Adaptation properties," as individuated according to evolutionary biology, cannot be reduced to physical properties of the token items that have the adaptation properties. This causes serious if not fatal trouble for several of Kim's crucial theses: the Causal Individuation of Kinds, Weak Supervenience, Alexander's Dictum, the synchronicity thesis (that all psychological kinds supervene on the contemporaneous physical states of the organism), the Correlation Thesis, and indeed his Restricted Correlation Thesis. All these theses are strongly individualist, in the sense of entailing that all a thing's properties are determined by its own physical properties and relations, contrary to many properties in biology and psychology. date: 1995 date_type: published publication: Philosophy of Science volume: 62 number: 2 pagerange: 338-340 refereed: TRUE citation: Post, John F. (1995) Review of Jaegwon Kim, Supervenience and Mind. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/392/1/kimrevcogprt.htm