Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays. Jaegwon Kim

1995 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Post
Keyword(s):  
Jaegwon Kim

scholarly journals Supervenience and Psycho-Physical Dependence

Dialogue ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Physical Dependence ◽  
Jaegwon Kim

RésuméJaegwon Kim a montré de façon convaincante que les versions habituelles de la survenance décrivent en fait de simples relations de covariance et laissent échapper l'idée de dépendance. Mais puisque la dépendence du mental à l'endroit du physique est requise même par la version la plus faible du physicalisme, il semblerait bien que les notions actuelles de survenance n'accomplissent pas ce qu'on attendait d'elles. Je soutiens qu'en concevant la survenance dans une optique davidsonienne, comme une relation entre prédicats plutôt qu'entre propriétés, on évite les inconvénients des versions plus familières, et que l'on donne prise, de la sorte, à un usage physicaliste de la survenance.

The nature of explanation in synergetic linguistics

Glottotheory ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukáš Zámečník
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Downward Causation ◽  
Functional Explanation ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Jaegwon Kim ◽  
Quantitative Linguistics ◽  
Conservation Principles ◽  
The Concept Of Law ◽  
Concept Of Law

AbstractThis investigation focuses on the nature of explanation in synergetic linguistics. After recounting the basic principles of Haken s synergetics, a physicalist stance constitutes the basis of a critique of using the stringent synergetic principle of synergetic linguistics. Jaegwon Kim has convincingly demonstrated that the strict synergetic principle impairs quantitative linguistics with downward causation. The central part of this paper demonstrates that the synergetic principle is not an appropriate principle on which to construct a valid functional explanation of quantitative linguistics. The final section analyses the concept of law in quantitative linguistics. We examine a series of laws as models and economization principles and we outline a conception of laws as various categories of conservation principles.

Closet Dualism and Mental Causation

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Leiter ◽  
Alexander Miller
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Mental Causation ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Multiple Realizability ◽  
Jaegwon Kim ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nonreductive Materialism ◽  
Tyler Burge ◽  
Argumentative Strategy ◽  
Stephen Yablo

Serious doubts about nonreductive materialism — the orthodoxy of the past two decades in philosophy of mind — have been long overdue. Jaegwon Kim has done perhaps the most to articulate the metaphysical problems that the new breed of materialists must confront in reconciling their physicalism with their commitment to the autonomy of the mental. Although the difficulties confronting supervenience, multiple-realizability, and mental causation have been recurring themes in his work, only mental causation — in particular, the specter of epiphenomenalism — has really captured the interest of philosophers in general in recent years.This growing attention has spawned a large body of literature, which it is not our aim here to explore or assess. Rather, we want to call attention to what we believe is a new and quite different argumentative strategy against epiphenomenalism voiced in some recent articles by Tyler Burge and Stephen Yablo. Each has challenged two central assumptions of the existing mental causation debate.

Biography: Jaegwon Kim

2013 ◽  
pp. 637-640
Author(s):  
Richard T. Hull
Keyword(s):  
Jaegwon Kim

Humean Causation and Kim's Theory of Events

1980 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 663-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Horgan
Keyword(s):  
Concrete Object ◽  
Jaegwon Kim ◽  
Causal Relations ◽  
Garden Variety ◽  
Concrete Objects ◽  
Covering Law ◽  
Covering Laws ◽  
Empirical Property ◽  
Influential Theory

In recent years Jaegwon Kim has propounded and elaborated an influential theory of events. He takes an event to be the exemplification of an empirical property (or n-adic attribute) by a concrete object (or several concrete objects) at a time. He also has proposed and endorsed a version of the “Humean” tradition concerning causation: the view that causal relations between concrete events depend upon general "covering laws." But although his explication of the covering-law conception of causation seems quite natural within the framework of his theory, it gives rise to a serious problem: in numerous garden-variety instances of causation, the Humean conditions (as Kim specifies them) are not satisfied. In this paper I shall suggest a way to modify Kim's theory of events in order to reconcile it with his treatment of causality.

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