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Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical EssaysBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (4): 579-607. 1993.For three decades the writings of Jaegwon Kim have had a major influence in philosophy of mind and in metaphysics. Sixteen of his philosophical papers, together with several new postscripts, are collected in Kim [1993]. The publication of this collection prompts the present essay. After some preliminary remarks in the opening section, in Section 2 I will briefly describe Kim's philosophical 'big picture' about the relation between the mental and the physical. In Section 3 I will situate Kim's ap…Read more
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298Events: Their metaphysics and semanticsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (3): 641-646. 1991.
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22The Role of Intention in Motivational PsychologyBowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy 2 20-26. 1980.
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66Events and their descriptions: some considerationsIn Nicholas Rescher (ed.), Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel, Reidel. pp. 198--215. 1969.
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4"Downward causation" in emergentism and nonreductive physicalismIn Ansgar Beckermann, Hans Flohr & Jaegwon Kim (eds.), Emergence or Reduction?: Prospects for Nonreductive Physicalism, De Gruyter. pp. 119--138. 1992.
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63The causal efficacy of consciousnessIn Max Velmans & Susan Schneider (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, Blackwell. pp. 406--417. 2007.
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154Wants as explanations of actionsJournal of Philosophy 60 (15): 425-435. 1963.Some features of the concept of a want, and of the explaining relation in which a want may stand to an action, have not received sufficient attention. In what follows we shall offer some suggestions and descriptions which may be one step toward remedy of this situationi. We shall be at pains to point out the extent to which the features we describe fit in with a conception of the explanations of actions conforming to the inferential (deductive or inductive) and nomological patterns of scientific…Read more
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102Possible Worlds and Annstrong’s CombinatorialismCanadian Journal of Philosophy 16 (4): 595-612. 1986.At the outset of his instructive and thought-provoking paper, ‘The Nature of Possibility,’ Professor David Armstrong gives a succinct description, in itself almost complete, of his ‘combinatorial theory’ of possibility. He says: ‘Such a view traces the very idea of possibility to the idea of the combinations - allthe combinations which respect certain simple form- of given, actual elements’. We can perhaps start a bit further back than this. In explaining the idea of a ‘possible world,’ some phi…Read more
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Chisholm on intentionality: De se, de re, and de dictoIn Lewis Edwin Hahn (ed.), The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm, Open Court. 1997.
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1Logical positivism and the mind-body problemIn Paolo Parrini, Wes Salmon & Merrilee Salmon (eds.), Logical Empiricism: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives, University of Pittsburgh Press. 2003.
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76Preécis of mind in a physical world (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (3). 2002.
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265Supervenience and supervenient causationSouthern Journal of Philosophy Supplement 22 (S1): 45-56. 1984.Two concepts of supervenience, "strong supervenience" and "weak supervenience," are characterized and contrasted, And their major properties established. Supervenience as commonly characterized by philosophers is shown to correspond to weak supervenience, Whereas the intended concept is often the stronger relation. Strong supervenience is applied to explicate the notion of "supervenient causation," and it is argued that macro-Causal relations can be understood as cases of supervenient causation,…Read more
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86Horgan’s naturalistic metaphysics of mindGrazer Philosophische Studien 63 (1): 27-52. 2002.Terry Horgan has made impressive and highly important contributions to numerous fields of philosophy ? metaphysics, philosophy of mind and psychology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and value theory, to mention the most prominent ones. What gives Horgan's work a powerful and clarifying unity is his deep and unflagging commitment to philosophical naturalism. In fact, Horgan himself has often invoked naturalism to motivate his positions and arguments on a number of philosophical is…Read more
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2""16 What is" Naturalized Epistemology"? Jaegwon KimIn Alcoff Linda (ed.), Epistemology: The Big Questions, Blackwell. pp. 265. 1998.
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62Causation and mental causationIn Brian P. McLaughlin & Jonathan D. Cohen (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. pp. 227--242. 2007.
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214Essays in the Metaphysics of MindOxford University Press. 2010.The essays will be accessible to attentive readers without an extensive philosophical background.
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382Thoughts on Sydney Shoemaker’s Physical RealizationPhilosophical Studies 148 (1). 2010.This paper discusses in broad terms the metaphysical projects of Sydney Shoemaker’s Physical Realization . Specifically, I examine the effectiveness of Shoemaker’s novel “subset” account of realization for defusing the problem of mental causation, and compare the “subset” account with the standard “second-order” account. Finally, I discuss the physicalist status of the metaphysical worldview presented in Shoemaker’s important new contribution to philosophy of mind and metaphysics.
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5Making sense of downward causationIn P. B. Andersen, Claus Emmeche, N. O. Finnemann & P. V. Christiansen (eds.), Downward Causation, University of Aarhus Press. pp. 305--321. 2000.
Jaegwon Kim
(1934 - 2019)
Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |