Jaegwon Kim
Jaegwon Kim | |
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| Born | September 12, 1934 |
| Died | November 27, 2019 (aged 85) |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College Princeton University |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Doctoral advisors | Carl Gustav Hempel |
Main interests | Philosophy of mind Metaphysics · Epistemology Action theory Philosophy of science |
Notable ideas | Reductive physicalism Weak supervenience[1] |
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Influenced | |
| Jaegwon Kim | |
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| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Jaegwon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Chaegwǒn |
Jaegwon Kim (Daegu, September 12, 1934 – November 27, 2019) was a Korean-American philosopher. He was an emeritus professor at Brown University, but who also taught at several other leading American universities. He was best known for his work on mental causation and the mind-body problem. His issues are well represented by the papers collected in Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays (1993).
Kim died on November 27, 2019 at the age of 85.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Kim, Jaegwon. (1984). "Concepts of supervenience," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 45(2): 153–176.
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