Jaegwon Kim
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Jaegwon Kim was a philosopher from the United States, best known for Philosophy of mind.
Quick Facts About Jaegwon Kim
- Born
- September 12, 1934
- Died
- November 27, 2019
- Nationality
- United States
- Profession
- Philosopher
- Notable works
- Philosophy of mind
About Jaegwon Kim
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 (1993).
Biography source: Wikipedia
