They are composed of three things: Object(s), a property and time or a temporal interval. Events are defined using the operation [x, P, t]. A unique event is defined by two principles: the existence condition and the identity condition. The existence condition states "[x, P, t] exists if and only if object x exemplifies the n-adic P at time t". This means a unique event exists if the above is met. The identity condition states "[x, P, t] is [y, Q, t`] if and only if x=y, P=Q and t=t`". Epistemology Kim is a critic of the naturalized epistemology popularized by Willard Van Orman Quine in the latter half of the twentieth century. Kim's influential article "What is 'Naturalized Epistemology'?" (1988) argues that "naturalized" epistemologies like Quine's are not proper epistemologies as they are merely descriptive in scope, while one generally expects an "epistemology" to make normative claims about knowledge. Kim argues that mere description of belief-forming practices cannot account for justified belief. (He also argues that to even individuate beliefs, the naturalized epistemologist must presuppose normative criteria of justification.) Naturalized epistemology cannot address the issue of justification, and therefore it does not share the same aspiration as the traditional approach to epistemology. Awards 2014: Kyung-Ahm Prize, Kyung-Ahm Education & Cultural Foundation Selected publications The following is a partial list of publications by Jaegwon Kim. (1984) "Epiphenomenal and Supervenient Causation", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. IX, Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984, pp. 257–70. (1988) "What is 'Naturalized Epistemology'?", Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 2 (1988): 381–405. (1993) Supervenience and Mind, Cambridge University Press. (1998) Mind in a Physical World, MIT Press. (1999) "Making sense of Emergence", Philosophical Studies 95, pp. 3–36. (2005) Physicalism, or Something Near Enough, Princeton University Press (Chapter 1). (2006) Philosophy of Mind, 2nd ed., Westview Press. (2010) Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind, Oxford University Press See also American philosophy Epiphenomenalism Free will List of American philosophers List of Korean philosophers McClamrock, Ron Neuroscience of free will References External links Jaegwon Kim's homepage - at Brown University. Interview with Jaegwon Kim, Fall 2000 (originally at Ephilosopher.com, now only available at blog.naver.com). Jaegwon Kim's CV Mental Causation, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Mind and the Causal Exclusion Problem, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1934 births 2019 deaths 20th-century American essayists 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American philosophers 21st-century