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53
Citations
21895
World Ranking
2221
National Ranking
1070

Overview

Jaegwon Kim was affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research spanned several interconnected fields within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Kim's work focused notably on topics related to animal nutrition and physiology, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, and molecular biology techniques and applications.

The scientist's publications included two recent papers. The first, titled Selection signature analysis using whole genome resequencing data reveals candidate genes for white plumage color in Korean native ducks, was published in 2025 in the journal Animal Bioscience. The second, Issue Information, appeared in 2020 in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

Kim collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Jae-Won Kim
  • Eunjin Cho
  • Sunghyun Cho
  • Minjun Kim
  • Won-Hyong Chung

The main publication venues for Kim's work were:

  • Animal Bioscience
  • Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

Kim's research contributions can be categorized under the following primary fields of study:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these disciplines, more specific subfields were represented:

  • Animal Science and Zoology
  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology

The research topics Kim engaged with included:

  • Animal Nutrition and Physiology
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications

Best Publications

  • Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation

    Jaegwon Kim

  • Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays

    Jaegwon Kim

  • Philosophy of Mind

    Jaegwon Kim

  • Physicalism, or Something Near Enough

    Jaegwon Kim

  • Making Sense of Emergence

    Jaegwon Kim

  • Events as Property Exemplifications

    Jaegwon Kim

  • Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction

    Jaegwon Kim

  • Concepts of supervenience

    Jaegwon Kim

  • The Myth of Nonreductive Materialism

    Jaegwon Kim

  • What is "naturalized epistemology?"

    Jaegwon Kim

  • Causation, Nomic Subsumption, and the Concept of Event

    Jaegwon Kim

  • Emergence: Core ideas and issues

    Jaegwon Kim

  • Mechanism, purpose, and explanatory exclusion

    Jaegwon Kim

  • The myth of non-reductive materialism

    Jaegwon Kim

  • Supervenience and mind: The nonreductivist's troubles with mental causation

    Jaegwon Kim;Ernest Sosa

  • SUPERVENIENCE AS A PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT

    Jaegwon Kim

  • Epiphenomenal and supervenient causation

    Jaegwon Kim

  • Explanatory Knowledge and Metaphysical Dependence

    Jaegwon Kim

  • Emergence or Reduction?: Essays on the Prospects of Nonreductive Physicalism

    Ansgar Beckermann;Hans Flohr;Jaegwon Kim

  • A Companion to Metaphysics

    Jaegwon Kim;Ernest Sosa;Gary S. Rosenkrantz

Frequent Co-Authors

Ernest Sosa
Ernest Sosa Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
William Bechtel
William Bechtel University of California, San Diego
Stephen Stich
Stephen Stich Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Martha Craven Nussbaum
Martha Craven Nussbaum University of Chicago

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