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Jaegwon Kim

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born

September 12, 1934 in Daegu, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of

gender

male

website

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/fac...

genre

Philosophy, Science, Nonfiction

influences

Carl Hempel, Roderick Chisholm

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Jaegwon Kim (born 1934 in Daegu, Korea (now in South Korea)) is a Korean-born American philosopher currently working at Brown University. He is best known for his work on mental causation and the mind-body problem. 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 (1993).

Kim's philosophical work focuses on the areas of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, action theory, epistemology, and philosophy of science.

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Books by Jaegwon Kim

Average rating: 3.86 · 174 ratings · 19 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Philosophy of Mind 3.88 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Physicalism, or Something Near Enough 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Metaphysics: An Anthology by Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Supervenience 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002	My rating:
	Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Companion to Metaphysics by Jaegwon Kim (Editor ), Ernest Sosa (Editor), Gary S. Rosenkrantz (Editor) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	My rating:
	A Companion to Metaohysics by Chong Ed. Kim, Jaegwon Kim (Editor) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Values and Morals: Essays in Honour of William Frankena, Charles Stevenson and Richard Brandt 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1978	My rating:

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Quotes by Jaegwon Kim

“There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.”
― Jaegwon Kim, Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation

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