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    Jaegwon Kim — Carmelics
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    Jaegwon Kim

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    1934 – 2019

    Jaegwon Kim (1934-2019) was a Korean-American philosopher known for his influential work in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. He is best known for his arguments against non-reductive physicalism and for developing the causal exclusion argument, which challenges the causal efficacy of mental properties.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Developed the causal exclusion argument against non-reductive physicalism

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    Formulated influential theory of events as property exemplifications

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    Advanced supervenience as a key concept in philosophy of mind

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    Authored 'Mind in a Physical World' and 'Physicalism, or Something Near Enough'

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    Contributed foundational work on mental causation and the mind-body problem

    Positions & Arguments

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    Philosophy of Language

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    We must distinguish between the radical empiricist's meaning of 'meaning' (epistemic reduction) and a more common-sensical meaning of 'meaning' (factual reference).

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    There is no viable conception of vector properties on which vector properties are both necessarily extrinsic and capable of being fundamental

    Truth & Knowledge

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    We must distinguish between the radical empiricist's meaning of 'meaning' (epistemic reduction) and a more common-sensical meaning of 'meaning' (factual reference).

    Modality & Possibility

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    There is no viable conception of vector properties on which vector properties are both necessarily extrinsic and capable of being fundamental

    Consciousness & Mind

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    Whether a priori deducibility from the explanans is sufficient for explaining consciousness depends in part on the nature of the premises from which the deduction proceeds

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