Jaegwon Kim
William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University
Ph.D., Princeton University
Office: 210 Gerard House, 54 College St.
Office Phone: (401) 863-2718
E-Mail: Jaegwon_Kim@brown.edu
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Research Interest:
Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Action Theory, Epistemology,and Philosophy of Science
Current Work:
Physicalism, reduction and reductionism, mental causation and the exclusion argument, the explanatory argument for type physicalism, self-knowledge and agency, subjectivity and normativity, the agent’s point of view in the explanation and understanding of actions, laws and explanations in special sciences.
Recent Seminar Topics
Physicalism and the Mind, Mental Causation, Subjectivity and Self, Consciousness, Action and Explanation, The Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Physicalism and Dualisms, Emergentism and Epiphenomenalism, Explaining and Understanding Actions
Biography:
A.B., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Princeton University.
Has taught at Swarthmore College, Cornell University, The Johns Hopkins University, and The University of Michigan. Since 1987, the William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University.
President of the American Philosophical Association, the Central Division, 1988-89.
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991-
Co-editor of the philosophical quarterly Noûs, 2000-2005.
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