Jaegwon Kim

Jaegwon Kim
Born(1934-09-12)September 12, 1934
DiedNovember 27, 2019(2019-11-27) (aged 85)
Alma materDartmouth College
Princeton University
Era20th-century philosophy, 21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
InstitutionsBrown University
Doctoral advisorsCarl Gustav Hempel
Doctoral studentsAlyssa Ney
Main interests
Notable ideas
Reductive physicalism
Weak supervenience[1]
Korean name
Hangul
김재권
Hanja
Revised RomanizationGim Jae-gwon
McCune–ReischauerKim Chaegwŏn
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Jaegwon Kim (September 12, 1934 – November 27, 2019)[2] 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 (1993).

  1. ^ Kim, Jaegwon. (1984). "Concepts of supervenience," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 45(2): 153–176.
  2. ^ Weinberg, Justin (November 29, 2019). "Jaegwon Kim (1934-2019)". Daily Nous. Retrieved 2021-01-02.