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Kim, Jaegwon was born on September 12, 1934 in Taegu, Republic of Korea. Came to the United States, 1955, naturalized, 1966.
( The philosophy of mind has long been part of the core p...)
The philosophy of mind has long been part of the core philosophy curriculum, and this book is the classic, comprehensive survey of the subject. Designed as an introduction to the field for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, Philosophy of Mind focuses on the mind–body problem and related issues, some touching on the status of psychology and cognitive science. The third edition has been thoroughly updated throughout to reflect developments of the past decade, and it is the only text of its kind that provides a serious and respectful treatment of substance dualism. This edition also includes two new chapters on the nature of consciousness and the status of consciousness. Throughout the text, author Jaegwon Kim allows readers to come to their own terms with the central problems of the mind. At the same time, Kim’s emerging views are on display and serve to move the discussion forward. Comprehensive, clear, and fair, Philosophy of Mind is a model of philosophical exposition and a significant contribution to the field.
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(Jaegwon Kim is one of the most preeminent and most influe...)
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 philosophy of mind is the problem of explaining how the mind can causally influence bodily processes. Professor Kim explores this problem in detail, criticizes the nonreductionist solution of it, and offers a modified reductionist solution of his own. Both professional philosophers and their graduate students will find this an invaluable collection.
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(This text, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures,...)
This text, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's late-1990s views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind - in particular, the mind-bady problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of finding a place for the mind in a world that is fundamentally physical. Among other points, he redefines the roles of supervenience and emergence in the discussion of the mind-body problem. Arguing that various contemporary accounts of mental causation are inadequate, he offers his own partially reductionist solution on the basis of a model of reduction. The book retains the informal tone of the lecture format.
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(Jaegwon Kim is one of the most preeminent and most influe...)
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 philosophy of mind is the problem of explaining how the mind can causally influence bodily processes. Professor Kim explores this problem in detail, criticizes the nonreductionist solution of it, and offers a modified reductionist solution of his own. Both professional philosophers and their graduate students will find this an invaluable collection.
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( Contemporary discussions in philosophy of mind have lar...)
Contemporary discussions in philosophy of mind have largely been shaped by physicalism, the doctrine that all phenomena are ultimately physical. Here, Jaegwon Kim presents the most comprehensive and systematic presentation yet of his influential ideas on the mind-body problem. He seeks to determine, after half a century of debate: What kind of (or "how much") physicalism can we lay claim to? He begins by laying out mental causation and consciousness as the two principal challenges to contemporary physicalism. How can minds exercise their causal powers in a physical world? Is a physicalist account of consciousness possible? The book's starting point is the "supervenience" argument (sometimes called the "exclusion" argument), which Kim reformulates in an extended defense. This argument shows that the contemporary physicalist faces a stark choice between reductionism (the idea that mental phenomena are physically reducible) and epiphenomenalism (the view that mental phenomena are causally impotent). Along the way, Kim presents a novel argument showing that Cartesian substance dualism offers no help with mental causation. Mind-body reduction, therefore, is required to save mental causation. But are minds physically reducible? Kim argues that all but one type of mental phenomena are reducible, including intentional mental phenomena, such as beliefs and desires. The apparent exceptions are the intrinsic, felt qualities of conscious experiences ("qualia"). Kim argues, however, that certain relational properties of qualia, in particular their similarities and differences, are behaviorally manifest and hence in principle reducible, and that it is these relational properties of qualia that are central to their cognitive roles. The causal efficacy of qualia, therefore, is not entirely lost. According to Kim, then, while physicalism is not the whole truth, it is the truth near enough.
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(This anthology, intended to accompany A Companion to Meta...)
This anthology, intended to accompany A Companion to Metaphysics (Blackwell, 1995), 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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Kim, Jaegwon was born on September 12, 1934 in Taegu, Republic of Korea. Came to the United States, 1955, naturalized, 1966.
AB, Dartmouth College, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1962.
Instructor philosophy Swarthmore College, 1961-1963. Assistant professor philosophy Brown University, 1963-1967, visiting professor, 1975, William Perry Faunce professor philosophy, since 1987. Chair department Borwn University, 1990-1999.
Associate professor philosophy University Michigan, 1967-1970, professor, 1971-1987, chairman department, 1979-1987, Roy Wood Sellars professor philosophy, 1986-1987. Associate professor Cornell University, 1970-1971. Professor Johns Hopkins University, 1977-1978.
Visiting professor Stanford University, 1967. Fulbright lecturer, Republic of Korea, 1984, Seoul National University, 2000. Visiting McMahon-Hank professor University Notre Dame, 1999, 2001-2005.
(This text, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures,...)
( This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lecture...)
(This anthology, intended to accompany A Companion to Meta...)
( Contemporary discussions in philosophy of mind have lar...)
( The philosophy of mind has long been part of the core p...)
(Jaegwon Kim is one of the most preeminent and most influe...)
(Jaegwon Kim is one of the most preeminent and most influe...)
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Member American Philosophical Association (chairman committee on status and future of profession 1976-1981, member board officers 1976-1981, 88-90, vice president central division 1987-1988, president 1988-1989), Philosophy of Science Association (member governing board 1979-1981), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Council Philosophical Studies.
M. Sylvia Hughes, June 18, 1961. 1 child, Justin Lee.