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101Laws, Causation, and Explanation in the Special SciencesHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 27 (3/4). 2005.There is the general philosophical question concerning the relationship between physics, which is often taken to be our fundamental and all-encompassing science, on one hand and the special sciences, such as biology and psychology, each of which deals with phenomena in some specially restricted domain, on the other. This paper deals with a narrower question: Are there laws in the special sciences, laws like those we find, or expect to find, in basic physics? Three arguments that are intended to …Read more
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785Philosophy of MindWestview Press. 1996.The philosophy of mind has always been a staple of the philosophy curriculum. But it has never held a more important place than it does today, with both traditional problems and new topics often sparked by the developments in the psychological, cognitive, and computer sciences. Jaegwon Kim’s Philosophy of Mind is the classic, comprehensive survey of the subject. Now in its second edition, Kim explores, maps, and interprets this complex and exciting terrain. Designed as an introduction to the fie…Read more
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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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33How can my mind move my Limbs? Mental causation from Descartes to contemporary physicalismPhilosophic Exchange 30 (1): 5-16. 2000.Mental events enter into causal relations with bodily events. The philosophical task is to explain how this is possible. Descartes’ dualism of mental and material substances ultimately founders on the impossibility of pairing mental events with physical events as causes and effects. This is what I have called “the pairing problem.” Many contemporary views also fail to explain mental causation. In the end, we are left with a dilemma. If mental phenomena are irreducible to physical phenomena, then…Read more
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13Explanatory exclusion and the problem of mental causationIn Enrique Villanueva (ed.), Information, Semantics, and Epistemology, Blackwell. 1990.
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893Multiple realization and the metaphysics of reductionPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1): 1-26. 1992.
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265Blocking Causal Drainage and Other Maintenance Chores with Mental Causation 1Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (1): 151-176. 2003.In this paper I will revisit an argument that I have called “the supervenience argument”; it is sometimes called “the exclusion argument” in the literature. I want to reconsider several aspects of this argument in light of some of the criticisms and comments it has elicited, clarifying some points and offering a slightly reformulated—and improved—version of the argument. My primary aim, however, is to discuss and respond to Ned Block’s edifying and challenging critique of the argument in his “Do…Read more
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14ResponsesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (3): 671-680. 2002.Jackson says that the form of physicalism that I recommend, with certain emendations he believes are necessary, turns out to be none other than the “Australian” type-type identity theory of J.J.C. Smart and others. About this, too, I have no serious disagreement, although Jackson’s claim appears to depend, at least in part, on a certain chosen reading of the texts involved. In fact, one point of similarity may be worth noting. As I take it, one special feature of the “Australian” type identity t…Read more
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557 The Myth of Nonreductive MaterialismIn Paul K. Moser & J. D. Trout (eds.), Contemporary Materialism: A Reader, Routledge. pp. 133. 1989.
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20Mental Causation in Searle’s “Biological Naturalism”Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (1): 189-194. 1995.
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Alvin I. Goldman and Jaegwon Kim (eds.), Values and Morals: Essays in Honor of William Frankena, Charles Stevenson, and Richard Brandt (review)Philosophy 55 (214): 557-559. 1980.
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29CHAPTER 6. Physicalism, or Something Near EnoughIn Physicalism, or Something Near Enough, Princeton University Press. pp. 149-174. 2007.
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122States of Affairs, Events, and PropositionsGrazer Philosophische Studien 7 147-162. 1979.States of affairs constitute a basic ontological category in Chisholm's metaphysical system, and yield events and propositions as subclasses. Qua events, they enter into causal relations, and qua propositions, they are objects of our intentional attitudes. This paper expounds and critically examines Chisholm's conception of a state of affairs and his constructions of events and propositions. Various difficulties with some of Chisholm's definitions and procedures are pointed out and discussed. Th…Read more
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233Metaphysics: 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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175Causality, identity and supervenience in the mind-body problemMidwest Studies in Philosophy 4 (1): 31-49. 1979.
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3048What is "naturalized epistemology?"Philosophical Perspectives 2 381-405. 1988.This paper analyzes and evaluates quine's influential thesis that epistemology should become a chapter of empirical psychology. quine's main point, it is argued, is that normativity must be banished from epistemology and, more generally, philosophy. i claim that without a normative concept of justification, we lose the very concept of knowledge, and that belief ascription itself becomes impossible without a normative concept of rationality. further, the supervenience of concepts of epistemic app…Read more
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557Supervenience and mind: selected philosophical essaysCambridge University Press. 1993.Jaegwon Kim is one of the most preeminent and most influential contributors to the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. This collection of essays presents the core of his work on supervenience and mind with two sets of postscripts especially written for the book. The essays focus on such issues as the nature of causation and events, what dependency relations other than causal relations connect facts and events, the analysis of supervenience, and the mind-body problem. A central problem in the phi…Read more
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130The role of perception in a priori knowledge: Some remarks (review)Philosophical Studies 40 (3). 1981.
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 |