Jaegwon Kim

Jaegwon Kim
Born	(1934-09-12) September 12, 1934 (age 82) Daegu, Korea (now in S. Korea)
Alma mater	Dartmouth College Princeton University

Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Analytic
Main interests	Philosophy of mind Metaphysics · Epistemology Action theory Philosophy of science
Notable ideas	Reductive physicalism Weak supervenience
Influences Carl Hempel · Roderick Chisholm

Jaegwon Kim (born September 12, 1934) is a Korean-American philosopher who is now an emeritus professor at Brown University, but who also taught at several other leading American universities. He is best known for his work on mental causation, the mind-body problem and the metaphysics of supervenience and events. Key themes in his work include: a rejection of Cartesian metaphysics, the limitations of strict psychophysical identity, supervenience, and the individuation of events. Kim's work on these and other contemporary metaphysical and epistemological issues is well represented by the papers collected in Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays (1993).

Kim took two years of college in Seoul, South Korea as a French literature major, before transferring to Dartmouth College in 1955. Soon after, at Dartmouth, he changed to a combined major in French, mathematics, and philosophy and received a B.A. degree. After Dartmouth, he went to Princeton University, where he earned his Ph.D. in philosophy.

Kim is the Emeritus William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University (since 1987). He has also taught at Swarthmore College, Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins University, and, for many years, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 1988–1989, he was president of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division. Since 1991, he has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Along with Ernest Sosa, he is a joint editor of the quarterly philosophical journal Noûs.