Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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)