Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Jaegwon Kim
Born: September 12, 1934
Died: November 27, 2019 (aged 85)
Bio: Jaegwon Kim was a Korean-American philosopher who was an emeritus professor at Brown University, but who also taught at several other leading American universities.
Known for:
- Philosophy of mind (1996)
- Mind in a physical world (1998)
- Physicalism, or something near enough (2005)
- Supervenience and mind (1993)
- Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind (2010)