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Jaegwon Kim
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Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 5 facts
perspectiveCritics such as Jaegwon Kim (1987, 1998) argue that non-reductive physicalism fails to provide an adequate account of how conscious properties are realized by underlying neural, physical, or functional structures.
claimJaegwon Kim (1998) asserts that connecting physical or neural facts to consciousness requires the use of bridge principles or links.
perspectiveJaegwon Kim challenged the coherence of views that aim to be both non-reductive and physicalist in 1987.
claimJaegwon Kim argued in 1980 that a priori deducibility is not necessarily sufficient for a successful explanation.
claimJaegwon Kim challenged the coherence of emergent property dualism in 1998.
Naturalized Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 5, 2001 5 facts
claimJaegwon Kim argues that Willard Van Orman Quine's naturalized epistemology studies a different topic than traditional epistemology, specifically shifting focus from questions of rationality, justification, and knowledge to the causal connections between sensory evidence and beliefs.
referenceThe bibliography for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Naturalized Epistemology includes works by Robert Almeder (1998), Laurence BonJour (1994), Roderick Chisholm (1966, 1982, 1989), Richard Feldman (1999), Richard Foley (1994), Richard Fumerton (1994, 1995), Allan Gibbard (1990), Alvin Goldman (1979, 1992), Susan Haack (1993), Gilbert Harman (1977), Jaegwon Kim (1988), Philip Kitcher (1992), Hilary Kornblith (1988, 1994, 1999), Keith Lehrer (1997), William Lycan (1988), James Maffie (1990), John Pollock (1986), and W.V.O. Quine.
claimJaegwon Kim argues that the term 'naturalism' is used ambiguously between 'ethical naturalism' and 'epistemological naturalism', where the former requires definitions in natural terms while the latter requires only supervenience.
claimJaegwon Kim holds the view that epistemic facts are natural facts if they supervene on unquestionably natural facts, a position shared by nearly all participants in the debate.
quoteJaegwon Kim stated in his 1988 critical discussion of Quine's 'Naturalized Epistemology': '...if a belief is justified, that must be so because it has certain factual, non-epistemic properties...That it is a justified belief cannot be a brute fundamental fact... [it] must be grounded in the factual descriptive properties of that particular belief.'
Naturalized epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 4 facts
claimJaegwon Kim argues that modern epistemology is defined by the normative concepts of justification and reliability, and that removing these concepts eliminates the common sense meaning of knowledge.
quoteJaegwon Kim asserts that the defining characteristic of an epistemological study is the notion of justification, stating: "If justification drops out of epistemology, knowledge itself drops out of epistemology."
referenceJaegwon Kim discusses the definition of naturalized epistemology in his essay 'What is 'Naturalized Epistemology'?', published in 'Epistemology: An Anthology' in 2004.
perspectiveJaegwon Kim contends that W.V.O. Quine's naturalized epistemology cannot establish truth because it relies on purely descriptive statements about sensory input–output relationships rather than normative criteria.
Dualism, Physicalism, and Philosophy of Mind - Capturing Christianity capturingchristianity.com Dec 11, 2019 4 facts
perspectiveJaegwon Kim argues that the capacity for phenomenal consciousness is of the utmost importance, as it is central to the value possessed by sentient animals and the value our lives have for us.
quoteKim states: “consciousness-bashing still goes on in some quarters, with some reputable philosophers arguing that phenomenal consciousness, or ‘qualia,’ is a fiction of bad philosophy… It is an ironic fact that the felt qualities of conscious experience, perhaps the only things that ultimately matter to us, are often… jettisoned outright as artifacts of confused minds.”
quoteJaegwon Kim stated: "When philosophers discuss the nature of the intrinsic good, or what is worthy of our desire and volition for its own sake, the most prominently mentioned candidates are things like pleasure, absence of pain, enjoyment, and happiness—states that are either states of conscious experience or states that presuppose a capacity for conscious experience. Our attitude toward sentient creatures, with a capacity for pain and pleasure, is crucially different in moral terms from our attitude toward insentient objects. To most of us, a fulfilling life, a life worth living, is one that is rich and full in qualitative consciousness."
claimThe philosopher Kim focuses on the intrinsic value of phenomenal states, such as the positive value of pleasant sensory experiences and the negative value of chronic pain.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Dec 20, 2023 1 fact
perspectiveJaegwon Kim (2005) and other non-physicalists argue that while intentionality might be physically explained, phenomenality cannot be.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
referenceJaegwon Kim addressed the mind-body problem in the context of physicalism in his 1999 book 'Mind in a Physical World'.
Naturalistic Epistemology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
referenceJaegwon Kim published 'What is “naturalized epistemology”?' in Philosophical Perspectives, volume 2, in 1988.