Jaegwon Kim

Events as Property Exemplifications

The term ‘event’ ordinarily implies a change, and most changes are changes in a substance. Whether coming into being and passing away can be construed as changes in substances is a question we shall not consider here. A change in a substance occurs when that substance acquires a property it did not previously have, or loses a property it previously had. Whether fissions and fusions of substances can be considered as cases of losing or acquiring properties is, again, a question we shall not discuss in this paper. By ‘substance’ I mean things like tables, chairs, atoms, living creatures, bits of stuff like water and bronze, and the like; there is no need here to associate this notion with a particular philosophical doctrine about substance.

What is "naturalized epistemology?"

In this section, Kim argues that “Epistemology is a normative discipline as much as, and in the same sense as, normative ethics.” In particular, he argues that epistemology is dominated by the concept of justification, and that justification is a strongly normative notion, i.e. a justified belief is good or right in some way. “But justification manifestly is normative. If a belief is justified for us, then it is permissible and reasonable, from the epistemic point of view, for us to hold it, and it would be epistemically irresponsible to hold beliefs that contradict it. ... It probably is only an historical accident that we standardly speak of “normative ethics” but not of “normative epistemology”.

Emergence: Core ideas and issues

This paper explores the fundamental ideas that have motivated the idea of emergence and the movement of emergentism. The concept of reduction, which lies at the heart of the emergence idea is explicated, and it is shown how the thesis that emergent properties are irreducible gives a unified account of emergence. The paper goes on to discuss two fundamental unresolved issues for emergentism. The first is that of giving a “positive” characterization of emergence; the second is to give a coherent explanation of how “downward” causation, a central component of emergentism, is able to avoid the problem of overdetermination.

IMPROVED DETERMINATION OF ALPHA S FROM NEUTRINO-NUCLEON SCATTERING

We present an improved determination of the proton structure functions

Events and Their Descriptions: Some Considerations

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A Companion to Metaphysics

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The Layered Model: Metaphysical Considerations

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Causes as explanations: A critique

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High Statistics Search forνμ(ν¯μ)→νe(ν¯e)Oscillations in the Small Mixing Angle Regime

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Reasons and the First Person

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