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Jaegwon Kim

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#218

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#29

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Epistemology

#12

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#16

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#11

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Metaphysics

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#18

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Logic

#144

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#330

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PhD Philosophy Princeton University

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Jaegwon Kim was one of the most influential philosophers during his lifetime. His work has had a profound impact on a wide range of fields, including philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. Kim was also a highly respected thinker within the Korean philosophical tradition.

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Jaegwon Kim was a South Korean-born American philosopher.
Kim was the William Percy and Wilma C. Wachtell Professor in the Philosophy Department at Brown University.
Kim’s work focuses primarily on issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics.
Kim has been influential in the development of what is often referred to as “non-reductive physicalism.”
Kim was also a prominent critic of what he called “Cartesian dualism.”
Kim’s work has been translated into several languages, including Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and French.
Kim was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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According to Wikipedia, Jaegwon Kim was a Korean-American philosopher. At the time of his death, Kim was an emeritus professor of philosophy at Brown University. He also taught at several other leading American universities during his lifetime, including the University of Michigan, Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins University, and Swarthmore College. He is best known for his work on mental causation, the mind-body problem and the metaphysics of supervenience and events. Key themes in his work include: a rejection of Cartesian metaphysics, the limitations of strict psychophysical identity, supervenience, and the individuation of events. Kim's work on these and other contemporary metaphysical and epistemological issues is well represented by the papers collected in Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays .

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Jaegwon Kim's Published Works

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Published Works

Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays (1993) (794)
Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation (2001) (679)
Making Sense of Emergence (1999) (674)
Philosophy of Mind (1996) (558)
Concepts of supervenience (1984) (499)
Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (2005) (481)
Events as Property Exemplifications (1976) (443)
The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism (1992) (425)
Emergence or Reduction?: Essays on the Prospects of Nonreductive Physicalism (1992) (398)
What is "naturalized epistemology?" (1988) (352)
Emergence: Core ideas and issues (2006) (315)
MECHANISM, PURPOSE, AND EXPLANATORY EXCLUSION (1989) (270)
Causation, Nomic Subsumption, and the Concept of Event (1973) (241)
The nonreductivist's troubles with mental causation (1993) (235)
SUPERVENIENCE AS A PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT (1990) (216)
The myth of non-reductive materialism (1989) (211)
Epiphenomenal and Supervenient Causation (1984) (201)
International Phenomenological Society Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction (2008) (181)
Explanatory Knowledge and Metaphysical Dependence (1994) (169)
“Downward Causation” in Emergentism and Nonreductive Physicalism (1992) (159)
Explanatory Realism, Causal Realism, and Explanatory Exclusion (1988) (130)
Blocking Causal Drainage and Other Maintenance Chores with Mental Causation (2003) (117)
Supervenience and mind: “Strong” and “global” supervenience revisited (1987) (108)
Emergence – A Systematic View on its Historical Facets (1992) (104)
A Companion to Metaphysics (1995) (92)
Events and Their Descriptions: Some Considerations (1969) (91)
The Layered Model: Metaphysical Considerations (2002) (80)
Psychophysical supervenience (1982) (77)
The Myth of Nonreductive Materialism (2013) (75)
Causes and Counterfactuals (1973) (71)
Phenomenal Properties, Psychophysical Laws, and the Identity Theory (1972) (71)
Causes and Events: Mackie on Causation (1971) (71)
Values and Morals (1978) (68)
THE AMERICAN ORIGINS OF PHILOSOPHICAL NATURALISM (2003) (67)
Epistemology : an anthology (2000) (63)
The logic of the identity theory (1967) (58)
Causality, Identity, and Supervenience in the Mind‐Body Problem (1979) (56)
Causation and Mental Causation (2006) (55)
Being Realistic about Emergence (2008) (48)
Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind (2010) (48)
Emergent Phenomena and Complex Systems (1992) (46)
SUPERVENIENCE AND SUPERVENIENT CAUSATION (1984) (46)
On the Incompatibility of Enduring and Perduring Entities (2010) (45)
Postscripts on supervenience (1993) (42)
A Contemporary Look at Emergence (1992) (41)
Metaphysics: An Anthology (1999) (39)
Supervenience for Multiple Domains (1988) (39)
Causes as explanations: A critique (1981) (38)
Wants as Explanations of Actions (1963) (37)
Reduction and Reductive Explanation: Is One Possible Without the Other? (2008) (37)
The role of perception in a priori knowledge: Some remarks (1981) (37)
Can Supervenience and “Non‐Strict” Laws Save Anomalous Monism? (2010) (37)
On the Logical Conditions of Deductive Explanation (1963) (36)
Mental Causation in Searle’s “Biological Naturalism” (1995) (34)
XIV—Does the Problem of Mental Causation Generalize? (1997) (34)
Supervenience and mind: Dretske on how reasons explain behavior (1993) (34)
Thoughts on Sydney Shoemaker’s Physical Realization (2010) (33)
Perception and Reference without Causality (1977) (27)
Supervenience and mind: Postscripts on mental causation (1993) (27)
Supervenience, Emergence, Realization, Reduction (2005) (25)
The Mind‐Body Problem: Taking Stock After Forty Years (2008) (25)
Physicalism and Its Discontents: Mental Causation and Consciousness: The Two Mind-Body Problems for the Physicalist (2001) (24)
The Mind–Body Problem after Fifty Years (1998) (23)
Reasons and the First Person (1998) (23)
Nonreductive Materialism and the Nature of Intertheoretical Constraint (1992) (22)
Hempel, Explanation, Metaphysics (1999) (21)
Qualia and Brain Processes (1992) (20)
Supervenience and mind: The nonreductivist's troubles with mental causation (1993) (19)
Supervenient Properties and Micro-Based Properties: A reply to Noordhof (1999) (19)
Values and Morals: Essays in Honor of William Frankena, Charles Stevenson, and Richard Brandt (1978) (19)
Events: Their Metaphysics and Semantics (1991) (19)
Rorty on the Possibility of Philosophy (1980) (18)
On the Way to a Theory of Antireductionist Arguments (1992) (18)
Mental Causation: What? Me Worry? (1995) (17)
Naturalism and Semantic Normativity (1993) (15)
Supervenience, Determination, and Reduction (1985) (14)
Logical truth revisited (1968) (14)
Supervenience and mind: Supervenience as a philosophical concept (1993) (14)
Emergence or Reduction?: Prospects for Nonreductive Physicalism (1992) (14)
Lonely Souls: Causality and Substance Dualism (2019) (14)
Supervenience and mind: Events as property exemplifications (1993) (14)
Inference, Explanation, and Prediction (1964) (13)
Dretske's Qualia Externalism (1996) (12)
New Perspectives on Type Identity: The very idea of token physicalism (2012) (12)
Philosophy of Mind and Psychology (2003) (10)
Current Issues in Philosophy of Mind: The Mind–Body Problem After Fifty Years (1998) (10)
Intention and Practical Inference (1976) (10)
Preécis of Mind in a Physical World (2002) (10)
What is the Problem of Mental Causation (1997) (10)
Supervenience and mind: Concepts of supervenience (1993) (9)
Explanation, Prediction, and Reduction in Emergentism (1997) (9)
Possible Worlds and Annstrong's Combinatorialism (1986) (8)
A Companion to Metaphysics: Second Edition (2009) (8)
Logical Positivism and the Mind-Body Problem (2003) (8)
The Secret Lives of Emergents (2010) (8)
Subjectivity and Knowing What It’s Like (1992) (8)
Why There Are No Laws in the Special Sciences: Three Arguments (2010) (7)
Physiology, Phenomenology, and Spinoza’s True Colors (1992) (7)
Supervenience and mind: The myth of nonreductive materialism (1993) (7)
Reductive and Nonreductive Physicalism (1992) (7)
CAUSATION, EMPHASIS, AND EVENTS (1977) (7)
Explanation and Understanding. (1973) (6)
Mental Causation in a Physical World (1993) (6)
Taking the Agent's Point of View Seriously in Action Explanation (2010) (6)
REDUCTION AND PROPERTIES: RESPONSE TO MERRICKS (1995) (5)
Materialism and the criteria of the mental (1971) (5)
Supervenience and mind: Psychophysical supervenience (1993) (5)
Chisholm's Legacy on Intentionality (2003) (5)
Two Concepts of Realization, Mental Causation, and Physicalism (2010) (5)
Laws, causation, and explanation in the special sciences. (2005) (4)
Supervenience and mind: Epiphenomenal and supervenient causation (1993) (4)
A Non-modal Conception of Secondary Properties ' (2010) (4)
Supervenience and mind: Supervenience for multiple domains (1993) (4)
Against Cartesian Dualism (2018) (3)
Making Sense of Emergence Jaegwon Kim (2008) (3)
Physicalism and Panexperientialism: Response to David Ray Griffin (1999) (3)
The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness (2007) (3)
Perceiving Numbers and Numerical Relations (1982) (3)
How Can My Mind Move My Limbs? Mental Causation from Descartes to Contemporary Physicalism (2000) (3)
Reduction, Correspondence and Identity (1968) (3)
Supervenience and mind: Causation, nomic subsumption, and the concept of event (1993) (2)
Moral Kinds and Natural Kinds: What's the Difference: For a Naturalist? (1997) (2)
“SUPERVENIENT AND YET NOT DEDUCIBLE”: IS THERE A COHERENT CONCEPT OF ONTOLOGICAL EMERGENCE? (2013) (2)
Chapter 7 : The Mind-Body Problem at Century's Turn (2007) (2)
Supervenience and mind: Psychophysical laws (1993) (2)
Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem (2018) (2)
HORGAN’S NATURALISTIC METAPHYSICS OF MIND (2002) (2)
Mind-Body Problems (1999) (2)
Metaphysics: An Anthology, 2nd Edition (2011) (1)
The Promise and Sensibility of Integrative Dualism (2013) (1)
Supervenience and mind: Noncausal connections (1993) (1)
Against Laws in the Special Sciences (2012) (1)
CHAPTER 1. Mental Causation and Consciousness: Our Two Mind-Body Problems (2007) (1)
Supervenience and Causal Closure: Two Exclusion Arguments and How in the End They Reduce to One (2014) (1)
CHAPTER 6. Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (2007) (1)
Mind as the Brain : The Psychoneural Identity Theory (2018) (1)
States of Affairs, Events, and Propositions (1979) (1)
Bealer's Intuitions on Concept Possession (1998) (1)
The Role of Intention in Motivational Psychology: Comments on Brand (1980) (0)
Metaphysics from A to Z (2009) (0)
19. Physicalism and the Multiple Readability of Mental States (1980) (0)
Mind as a Causal System : Causal-Theoretical Functionalism (2018) (0)
CHAPTER 4. Reduction, Reductive Explanation, and Closing the “Gap” (2007) (0)
WHAT IS "NATURAUZED EPISTEMOLOGY?" (2016) (0)
Synopsis of the Arguments (2007) (0)
Notes on Contibutors (1998) (0)
Articles on Aristotle and Hylomorphism (1995) (0)
A Companion to Metaphysics. (1996) (0)
CHAPTER 2. The Supervenience Argument Motivated, Clarified, and Defended (2007) (0)
Mind as Immaterial Substance : Descartes’s Dualism (2018) (0)
What Is Consciousness (2018) (0)
Philosophical Reflections on the Status of Cognitive Science (2000) (0)
Allen, RT, The Education of Autonomous Man, Aldershot, Avebury, 1992, vi, 82,£ 22.50 (cloth). Anderson, AR Belnap, ND and Dunn, JM, Entailment: The Logic of Relevance and Necessity Vol II, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1992, xxvii, 749, US $75.00 (cloth) (1993) (0)
Causality, Interpretation, and the Mind.Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays (1996) (0)
REFERENCE : SOME RECENT PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES (1984) (0)
Preface (2010) (0)
Philosophical Issues, Epistemology (2017) (0)
Psychophysical laws and theories of mind (2008) (0)
Mind as a Computing Machine (2018) (0)
Honderich on mental events and psychoneural laws (1989) (0)
CHAPTER 5. Explanatory Arguments for Type Physicalism and Why They Don’t Work (2007) (0)
Events as Property (2003) (0)
Mind and Behavior : Behaviorism (2018) (0)

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