Jaegwon Kim

Abstract

Jaegwon Kim is a well-known Korean American philosopher born on 12 September 1934 in Daegu (now in South Korea). His main philosophical interests are in the fields of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. Kim attended 2 years of college in Seoul, South Korea, as a French literature major, before entering Dartmouth College in 1955. At Dartmouth, he changed to a combined major in French, mathematics, and philosophy. Afterwards, he moved to Princeton University, from which he gained his PhD in philosophy. Since 1987, he has been the William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. In 1988–1989, he was president of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division. He also taught at Swarthmore College, Cornell University, University of Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

I believe that there is reason to think that intentional/cognitive

properties are functionalizable. However, I am with those who believe

that phenomenal properties of consciousness are not functional properties.

(Physicalism or Something Near Enough)