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3050What 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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958Emergence: Core ideas and issuesSynthese 151 (3): 547-559. 2006.This paper explores the fundamental ideas that have motivated the idea of emergence and the movement of emergentism. The concept of reduction, which lies at the heart of the emergence idea is explicated, and it is shown how the thesis that emergent properties are irreducible gives a unified account of emergence. The paper goes on to discuss two fundamental unresolved issues for emergentism. The first is that of giving a “positive” characterization of emergence; the second is to give a coherent e…Read more
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895Multiple realization and the metaphysics of reductionPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1): 1-26. 1992.
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786Philosophy 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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778This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind...
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608The myth of non-reductive materialismProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 63 (3): 31-47. 1989.Somewhat loose arguments that non-reductive physicalist realism is untenable. Anomalous monism makes the mental irrelevant, functionalism is compatible with species-specific reduction, and supervenience is weak or reductive
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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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529Physicalism, or Something Near EnoughPrinceton University Press. 2005."This is a fine volume that clarifies, defends, and moves beyond the views that Kim presented in Mind in a Physical World.
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490Epistemology: An Anthology (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2000.This volume represents the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in theory of knowledge. It is ideal as a reader for all courses in epistemology
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414Being realistic about emergenceIn Philip Clayton & Paul Davies (eds.), The re-emergence of emergence: the emergentist hypothesis from science to religion, Oxford University Press. pp. 189. 2006.
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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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367Causation, nomic subsumption, and the concept of eventJournal of Philosophy 70 (8): 217-236. 1973.
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363“Supervenient and yet Not Deducible”: Is There a Coherent Concept of Ontological Emergence?In Alexander Hieke & Hannes Leitgeb (eds.), Reduction: Between the Mind and the Brain, Ontos Verlag. pp. 53-72. 2009.
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341Emergence or Reduction?: Essays on the Prospects of Nonreductive Physicalism (edited book)W. de Gruyter. 1992.Introduction — Reductive and Nonreductive Physicalism A Short Survey of Six Decades of Philosophical Discussion Including an Attempt to Formulate a Version ...
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321The layered model: Metaphysical considerationsPhilosophical Explorations 5 (1). 2002.This paper examines the idea, commonly presupposed but seldom explicitly stated in discussions of certain philosophical problems, that the objects and phenomena of the world are structured in a hierarchy of "levels", from the bottom level of microparticles to the levels of cells and biological organisms and then to the levels of creatures with mentality and social groups of such creatures. Parallel to this "layered model" of the natural world is an ordering of the sciences, with physics as our "…Read more
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298Events: Their metaphysics and semanticsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (3): 641-646. 1991.
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270Mental Causation in Searle’s “Biological Naturalism”Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (1): 189-194. 1995.
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267Blocking 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
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 |