Jaegwon Kim (September 12, 1934 – November 27, 2019) was a
Korean-American philosopher
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. At the time of his death, Kim was an
emeritus professor
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In some c ...
of
philosophy
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at
Brown University
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. He also taught at several other leading American universities during his lifetime, including the
University of Michigan
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,
Cornell University
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, the
University of Notre Dame
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,
Johns Hopkins University
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, and
Swarthmore College
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. He is best known for his work on
mental causation, the
mind-body problem and the metaphysics of
supervenience
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Examples of supervenience, i ...
and
events. Key themes in his work include: a rejection of
Cartesian metaphysics
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, the limitations of strict
psychophysical identity,
supervenience
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Examples of supervenience, i ...
, and the
individuation
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The concept appears in numerous fields and is encountered in works of Leibniz, Carl Jung, Gunther Anders, Gilbert Simondo ...
of
events. Kim's work on these and other contemporary
metaphysical
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and
epistemological
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issues is well represented by the papers collected in ''Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays'' (1993).
Biography
Kim took two years of college in
Seoul National University
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The university's main c ...
,
South Korea
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as a
French literature
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major, before transferring to
Dartmouth College
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in 1955. Soon after, at Dartmouth, he changed to a combined major in
French,
mathematics
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, and
philosophy
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, and received a
B.A. degree. After Dartmouth, he went to
Princeton University
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, where he earned his
Ph.D. in philosophy.
Kim was the Emeritus William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at
Brown University
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(since 1987). He also taught at
Swarthmore College
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,
Cornell University
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, the
University of Notre Dame
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,
Johns Hopkins University
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, and, for many years, at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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. From 1988 to 1989, he was president of the
American Philosophical Association
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, Central Division. Since 1991, he has been a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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. Along with
Ernest Sosa
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...
, he was a joint editor of the quarterly philosophical journal ''
Noûs
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''.
According to Kim, two of his major philosophical influences are
Carl Hempel
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and
Roderick Chisholm
Roderick Milton Chisholm ( ; November 27, 1916 – January 19, 1999) was an American philosopher known for his work on epistemology, metaphysics, free will, value theory, deontology, deontic logic and the philosophy of perception.
Richard and ...
. Hempel, who sent him a letter encouraging him to go to Princeton, was a "formative influence".
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More specifically, Kim claims that he hopes he learned "a certain style of philosophy, one that emphasizes clarity, responsible argument, and aversion to studied obscurities and feigned profundities."
From Chisholm he learned "not to fear
metaphysics
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." This allowed him to go beyond the
logical positivist
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approaches that he had learned from Hempel in his investigations in metaphysics and the
philosophy of mind
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The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a ...
.
Although not a logical positivist, Kim's work always respected the limitations on philosophical speculation imposed by the sciences.
Work
Kim's philosophical work focuses on the areas of
philosophy of mind
Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the Body (biology), body and the Reality, external world.
The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a ...
,
metaphysics
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,
action theory,
epistemology
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, and
philosophy of science
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.
Philosophy of mind
Kim has defended various
mind-body theories during his career. He began defending a version of the
identity theory in the early 1970s, and then moved to a
non-reductive version of
physicalism
In philosophy, physicalism is the view that "everything is physical", that there is "nothing over and above" the physical, or that everything supervenience, supervenes on the physical. It is opposed to idealism, according to which the world arises ...
, which relied heavily on the
supervenience
In philosophy, supervenience refers to a relation between sets of properties or sets of facts. X is said to ''supervene'' on Y if and only if some difference in Y is necessary for any difference in X to be possible.
Examples of supervenience, i ...
relation.
Kim eventually rejected strict physicalism on the grounds that it provided an insufficient basis for resolving the
mind-body problem. In particular, he concluded that the
hard problem of consciousness
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—according to which a detailed and comprehensive
neurophysical description of the brain would still not account for the fact of
consciousness
Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of a state or object, either internal to oneself or in one's external environment. However, its nature has led to millennia of analyses, explanations, and debate among philosophers, scientists, an ...
—is insurmountable in the context of a thoroughgoing physicalism. His arguments against physicalism can be found in his two latest monographs: ''Mind in a Physical World'' (1998) and ''Physicalism, or Something Near Enough'' (2005). Kim claims "that physicalism will not be able to survive intact and in its entirety." This, according to Kim, is because
qualia
In philosophy of mind, qualia (; singular: quale ) are defined as instances of subjective, conscious experience. The term ''qualia'' derives from the Latin neuter plural form (''qualia'') of the Latin adjective '' quālis'' () meaning "of what ...
(the phenomenal or qualitative aspect of mental states) cannot be reduced to physical states or processes. Kim claims that "phenomenal mental properties are not functionally definable and hence functionally irreducible"
[Kim, 2005, p. 29.] and "if functional reduction doesn't work for qualia, nothing will."
Thus, there is an aspect of the
mind
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that physicalism cannot capture.
In his later years, Kim defended the thesis that
intentional mental states
A mental state, or a mental property, is a state of mind of a person. Mental states comprise a diverse class, including perception, pain/pleasure experience, belief, desire, intention, emotion, and memory. There is controversy concerning the exact ...
(e.g.,
beliefs
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and
desires
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) can be functionally reduced to their neurological realizers, but that the qualitative or
phenomenal
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mental states (e.g., sensations) are irreducibly non-physical and
epiphenomenal. He, thus defended a version of
property dualism
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, although Kim argued his position was "something near enough" physicalism.
As of March, 2008, Kim still saw physicalism to be the most comprehensive worldview that is irreplaceable with any other world view.
[Kim, Kihyeon]
"세계적 철학자 7명 릴레이 인터뷰 ⑧·끝 김재권 미 브라운대 석좌교수 (Relay Interview with 7 World Renown Philosophers ⑧ End: Jaegwon Kim, William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University)"
''Joongang Ilbo
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Newspaper article'', March 8, 2008.
In a 2008 interview with Korean daily newspaper
Joongang Ilbo
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, Kim stated that we must seek a
naturalistic explanation for mind because mind is a natural phenomenon, and
supernatural
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explanation only provides "one riddle over another".
He believed that any correct explanation for the nature of mind would come from
natural science
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rather than philosophy or
psychology
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.
Argument against non-reductive physicalism
Kim has raised an objection based on
causal closure
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and
overdetermination
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to
non-reductive physicalism.
[(2003) "Blocking Causal Drainage and Other Maintenance Chores with Mental Causation", ''Philosophy and Phenomenological Research'' 67.1: 151-76.]
The non-reductive physicalist is committed to following three principles: the
irreducibility of the mental to the physical, some version of mental-physical
supervenience
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Examples of supervenience, i ...
, and the causal
efficaciousness of mental states. The problem, according to Kim, is that when these three commitments are combined with a few other well-accepted principles, an inconsistency is generated that entails the causal impotence of mental properties. The first principle, which most
ontological
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physicalists would accept, is the causal closure of the physical domain, according to which, every physical effect has a sufficient physical cause. The second principle Kim notes is that of causal exclusion, which holds that no normal event can have more than one sufficient cause. The problem is that a behavior cannot have as its cause, both a physical event and a (supervening) mental event, without resulting in a case of overdetermination (thus violating the principle of causal exclusion). The result is that physical causes exclude mental states from causally contributing to the behavior.
In detail: he proposes (using the chart on the right) that ''M1'' causes ''M2'' (these are mental events) and ''P1'' causes ''P2'' (these are physical events). ''M1'' has ''P1'' as its supervenience base, and ''M2'' has ''P2'' as its supervenience base. The only way for ''M1'' to cause ''M2'', is by causing its supervenience base ''P2'' (a case of mental-to-physical causation). If ''P1'' causes ''P2'', and ''M1'' causes ''P2'', then we have a case of causal overdetermination. Applying the principle of causal-exclusion, either ''P1'' or ''M1'' must be eliminated as a cause of ''P2''. Given the principle of the causal closure of the physical domain, ''M1'' is excluded.
The non-reductive physicalist is forced to choose between two unappealing options: one could reject the causal-exclusion principle and claim that in this scenario we are dealing with a genuine case of overdetermination, or one could embrace
epiphenomenalism
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. Kim argues that mental causation can only be preserved by rejecting the premise of irreducibility in favor of
reduction; in order for mental properties to be considered causally efficacious, they must be reducible to physical properties.
Metaphysics
Kim's work in
metaphysics
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focuses primarily on events and properties.
Kim developed an
event
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Gatherings of people
* Ceremony, an event of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion
* Convention (meeting), a gathering of individuals engaged in some common interest
* Event management, the organization of eve ...
identity theory, but has not defended it recently. This theory holds that events are identical if and only if they occur in the same time and place and instantiate the same property. Thus if one waves ten fingers, several events occur, including the waving of an even number of fingers, the event of waving fingers that are evenly divisible by five, and evenly divisible by ten. Some have criticized his theory as producing too many events.
Kim also theorized that events are structured. He is known for a property-exemplification account of events. They are composed of three things: Object(s), a property and time or a
temporal interval. Events are defined using the operation
, P, t
A unique event is defined by two principles: the existence condition and the identity condition. The existence condition states "
, P, texists if and only if object x exemplifies the n-adic P at time t". This means a unique event exists if the above is met. The identity condition states "
, P, tis
, Q, t`if and only if x=y, P=Q and t=t`".
Epistemology
Kim is a critic of the
naturalized epistemology
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popularized by
Willard Van Orman Quine
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in the latter half of the twentieth century. Kim's influential article "What is 'Naturalized Epistemology'?" (1988) argues that "naturalized" epistemologies like Quine's are not proper epistemologies as they are merely descriptive in
scope, while one generally expects an "epistemology" to make
normative
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claims about
knowledge
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. Kim argues that mere description of belief-forming practices cannot account for justified belief. (He also argues that to even individuate beliefs, the naturalized epistemologist must presuppose normative criteria of
justification.) Naturalized epistemology cannot address the issue of justification, and therefore it does not share the same aspiration as the traditional approach to epistemology.
Awards
*2014:
Kyung-Ahm Prize, Kyung-Ahm Education & Cultural Foundation
Selected publications
The following is a ''partial'' list of publications by Jaegwon Kim.
* (1984) "Epiphenomenal and Supervenient Causation", ''Midwest Studies in Philosophy'', Vol. IX, Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984, pp. 257–70.
* (1988) "What is 'Naturalized Epistemology'?", ''Philosophical Perspectives'', Vol. 2 (1988): 381–405.
* (1993) ''Supervenience and Mind'', Cambridge University Press.
* (1998) ''Mind in a Physical World'', MIT Press.
* (1999) "Making sense of Emergence", ''Philosophical Studies'' 95, pp. 3–36.
* (2005) ''Physicalism, or Something Near Enough'', Princeton University Press
Chapter 1.
* (2006) ''Philosophy of Mind'', 2nd ed., Westview Press.
* (2010) ''Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind'', Oxford University Press
See also
*
American philosophy
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*
Epiphenomenalism
Epiphenomenalism is a position in the philosophy of mind on the mind–body problem. It holds that subjective mental events are completely dependent for their existence on corresponding physical and biochemical events within the human body, but d ...
*
Free will
Free will is generally understood as the capacity or ability of people to (a) choice, choose between different possible courses of Action (philosophy), action, (b) exercise control over their actions in a way that is necessary for moral respon ...
*
List of American philosophers
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*
List of Korean philosophers
*
McClamrock, Ron
*
Neuroscience of free will
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References
External links
Jaegwon Kim's homepage- at Brown University.
Jaegwon Kim's CV
Mental Causation ''
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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''
Mind and the Causal Exclusion Problem ''
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