Jaegwon Kim | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 12, 1934 |
| Died | November 27, 2019 (aged 85) |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College Princeton University |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy, 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | Brown University |
| Doctoral advisors | Carl Gustav Hempel |
| Doctoral students | Alyssa Ney |
Main interests | |
Notable ideas | Reductive physicalism Weak supervenience[1] |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 김재권 |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Jae-gwon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Chaegwŏn |
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).