Talk:Jaegwon Kim

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[edit] Expansion and clean up

I recently added some stuff and cleaned the article up a bit. However, it can still use some clean up and expansion:

• There is definitely more to add to the "Work" section. There's some info already about his philosophy of mind and events, but he has other work too that should be highlighted.
• I think that the section on events should be cleaned up and have references to his work as well. (Just saying where he states certain views would be good.)
• Adding more of his major publications would be good too, especially his major articles.

- Jaymay 05:11, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Misc edits

I added a small amount of information to make the entry more acceptable. I didn't start the entry, but I had just come looking for info about Kim.--KWW

Removed a publication "Mental Causation" (this presumably is John Heil's book which someone mistook for a non-existent book by JK).--Thinkingthing 00:23, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Removed description of Kim as an American philosopher. Although he works in the USA, he is, I believe, Korean. Also removed mention at the beginning of the article of Kim's current position as this is later mentioned in the CV. Added a list of key themes in Kim's work and sketched a developement of Kim's ideas regarding the mind-body problem.--Thinkingthing

He's been an American citizen for many years and has, in fact, lived in the U.S. for far longer than he ever lived in South Korea. I think describing him as an American philosopher is probably correct. -- justinlkim (16 March 2007)

[edit] Adding Korean interview question

On March 4, 2008, Korean newspaper, JoongAng Ilbo interviewed Jaegwon Kim about physicalism, qualia, psychology of human and animals, language and Turing machine. I think the article contains interesting Kim's ideas which are absent in the Wiki article. Though I am not sure how to reference Korean article. How do I do that? --- stampit (18 March, 2008)