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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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257The American Origins of Philosophical NaturalismJournal of Philosophical Research 28 (9999): 83-98. 2003.If contemporary analytic philosophy can be said to have a philosophical ideology, it undoubtedly is naturalism. Naturalism is often invoked as a motivating ground for many philosophical projects, and “naturalization” programs abound everywhere, in theory of knowledge, philosophy of mind, theory of meaning, metaphysics, and ethics. But what is naturalism, and where does it come from? This paper examines the naturalism debate in midtwentieth-century America as a proximate source of contemporary na…Read more
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234Metaphysics: An Anthology (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1999.This anthology, intended to accompany _A Companion to Metaphysics_, brings together over 60 selections which represent the best and most important works in metaphysics during this century. The selections are grouped under ten major metaphysical problems and each section is preceded by an introduction by the editors
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233'Strong' and 'global' supervenience revisitedPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 48 (December): 315-26. 1987.THIS PAPER CORRECTS AN ERROR IN MY EARLIER PAPER, "CONCEPTS OF SUPERVENIENCE" ("PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH", VOLUME 45, 1984), AND PRESENTS FURTHER MATERIAL ON SUPERVENIENCE. THE ERROR IS THE CLAIM THAT "GLOBAL" SUPERVENIENCE ENTAILS "STRONG" SUPERVENIENCE. HOWEVER, IT IS ARGUED THAT THIS FAILURE OF ENTAILMENT ONLY GOES TO SHOW THE INADEQUACY OF GLOBAL SUPERVENIENCE AS AN EXPLICATION OF "DEPENDENCY" OR "DETERMINATION" RELATION, AND, IN PARTICULAR, THAT MATERIALISM FORMULATED IN TER…Read more
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219Explanatory Realism, Causal Realism, and Explanatory ExclusionMidwest Studies in Philosophy 12 (1): 225-239. 1988.
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215Essays 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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215The very idea of token physicalismIn Hill Christopher & Gozzano Simone (eds.), New Perspectives on Type Identity: The Mental and the Physical, Cambridge University Press. pp. 167. 2012.
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187Metaphysics: An Anthology, 2nd Edition (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2011.Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the first edition, it presents entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects.
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183The mind-body problem: Taking stock after forty yearsPhilosophical Perspectives 11 185-207. 1997.
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182Against Laws in the Special SciencesJournal of Philosophical Research 37 (9999): 103-122. 2012.The traditional view of science holds that science is essentially nomothetic—that is, the defining characteristic of science is that it seeks to discover and formulate laws for the phenomena in its domain, and that laws are required for explanation and prediction. This paper advances the thesis that there are no laws in the special sciences, sciences other than fundamental physics, and that this does not impugn their status as sciences. Toward this end, two arguments are presented. The first beg…Read more
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179This paper offers a critique of the view that causation can be analyzed in terms of explanation. In particular, the following points are argued: a genuine explanatory analysis of causation must make use of a fully epistemological-psychological notion of explanation; it is unlikely that the relatively clear-cut structure of the causal relation can be captured by the relatively unstructured relation of explanation; the explanatory relation does not always parallel the direction of causation; certa…Read more
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175Causality, identity and supervenience in the mind-body problemMidwest Studies in Philosophy 4 (1): 31-49. 1979.
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171Chisholm's legacy on intentionalityMetaphilosophy 34 (5): 649-662. 2003.The problem of intentionality, or how mind and language can take things in the world as “intentional objects,” engaged Chisholm throughout his philosophical career. This essay reviews and discusses his seminal contributions on this problem, from his early work in “Sentences about Believing” and Perceiving during the 1950s to his last and most mature account in The First Person, published in 1981. Chisholm's final view was that de se reference, or a subject's directly taking himself as an intenti…Read more
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171Does the problem of mental causation generalize?Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 97 (3): 281-97. 1997.Jaegwon Kim; XIV*—Does the Problem of Mental Causation Generalize?, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 97, Issue 1, 1 June 1997, Pages 281–298, htt.
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166Phenomenal properties, psychophysical laws and the identity theoryThe Monist 56 (April): 178-92. 1972.
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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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154A Companion to Metaphysics (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1994._A Companion to Metaphysics_ provides a survey of the whole of metaphysics and includes articles by many of the most distinguished scholars in the field
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147The nonreductivist’s troubles with mental causationIn John Heil & Alfred R. Mele (eds.), Mental Causation, Oxford University Press. 1992.
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143Supervenience and nomological incommensurablesAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 15 (2): 149-56. 1978.Developing and motivating the notion of supervenience. Investigating the relationship to reducibility and definability (equivalence, under certain conditions), and to microphysical determination
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130The role of perception in a priori knowledge: Some remarks (review)Philosophical Studies 40 (3). 1981.
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124Naturalism and semantic normativityIn Enrique Villanueva (ed.), Philosophical Issues, Atascadero: Ridgeview. pp. 205-210. 1993.
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124Moral kinds and natural kinds: What's the difference: For a naturalist?Philosophical Issues 8 293-301. 1997.
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 |