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Jaegwon Kim
(1934 - 2019)
South Korean-American philosopher and academic
South Korean-American philosopher and academic
Influential philosopher renowned for his work on the mind-body problem and philosophy of mind.
Jaegwon Kim was a South Korean-American philosopher whose rigorous analysis shaped contemporary debates in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. He taught at institutions including Cornell University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Brown University. Kim's theories on mental causation, supervenience, and the nature of consciousness have been highly influential in analytic philosophy.
Jaegwon Kim