Kim's Supervenience Argument and Nonreductive Physicalism.
Jaegwon Kim is one of the most preeminent and most influential contributors to the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. This collection of essays presents the core of his work on supervenience and mind with two sets of postscripts especially written for the book.Kim's work is a paradigm of thoroughness, both in material covered and the scope of his application of a few key ideas. Also of particular interest is Kim's work in event theory, which is developed in the first few essays, and which, though neglected for some time, has been the subject of several recent journal articles in application to problems associated with natural kinds.Jaegwon Kim, Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 1993. If there were just one name associated with contemporary discussion of supervenience it would be Jaegwon Kim's, and it is gratifying to find so many of his papers on this and related topics united here essentially unchanged.
Naturalism and Placement: (Or, What Should a Good Quinean Say about Mathematical and Moral Truth?) Leng, M. C., 2016 Article in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.Jaegwon Kim is one of the most preeminent and most influential contributors to the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. This collection of essays presents the core of his work on supervenience and mind with two sets of postscripts especially written for the book. The essays focus on such issues as the nature of causation and events, what dependency relations other than causal relations connect.
Kim has a number of reasons for rejecting his earlier view that supervenience can be a physicalist solution to the mind-body problem: in particular, supervenience is compatible with various forms of dualism, and supervenience itself is in need of explanation.
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