Minseok Kim

Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University
mkim66@syr.edu; (315) 679-3661
 
Curriculum Vitae
 

 

Metaphysics; Philosophy of Language

 

 

Epistemology, Frege

 

 

 

PhD    Syracuse University, Philosophy                                                       2021-Present

 

MA      Chung-Ang University, Western Philosophy                                    2016-2020

 

BA       Chung-Ang University, Western Philosophy                                           2009-2016

 

 

 

Lee, Jaeho & Kim, Minseok (2018). “Can Impossible Possibility Save Modalism?”, Korean Journal of Logic, 21: 175-206.

 

Kim, Minseok (2017). “Alvin Plantinga’s Critique of David Lewis’s Counterpart Theory: Critique on Argument for Semantic Inadequacies of Counterpart Theory”, Modern Philosophy, 10: 77-103.

 

 

 

“Way-Nominalism: an Ontological Ground for Non-Nominal Quantification”

• APA Central Division (Symposium), New Orleans, Feb 2024.
• Annual Toronto Philosophy Graduate Conference, Toronto, Nov 2023

 

“Properties and the Concept Horse Paradox”

• Canadian Philosophical Association, York University, June 2023.
• Annual Southeastern Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Florida, April 2023.
• University of Iowa Graduate Philosophical Society Conference, University of Iowa, March 2023.

 

“Properties, Ways of being, and Predications”

• Illinois Philosophical Association Conference, Southern Illinois University, Nov. 2022.
• 12^th Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy, Sept. 2022 (Hybrid).
• Australasian Association of Philosophy, July 2022 (Online).

 

“Closure and (Against) the Impurist Solution to the Threshold Problem”

• Ohio Philosophical Association, the college of Wooster, April 2023.
• 17^th Gateway Graduate Conference: Metaethics, Metaepistemology & Metanormativity, March 2023
  (The Best Paper Award awarded).
• University of Waterloo’s 30^th Graduate Conference, March 2023.

 

“Survival and Essence: objectual vs. generic essence”

• Institute of philosophy in Chung-Ang Univ. June 2023 (Invited).

 

“How (not) to Reduce Generic Essence to Objectual Essence of Properties”

• The 11th Workshop of Korean Society for Analytic Philosophy Graduate Student Division, Sungkyunkwan University, July 2020.

 

“Can Impossible Possibility Save Modalism?”

• 43rd Chung-Ang Philosophy Graduate Workshop, Chung-Ang University, Spring 2018.

 

“Alvin Plantinga’s Critique of David Lewis’s Counterpart Theory”

• 36th Chung-Ang Philosophy Graduate Workshop, Chung-Ang University, Winter 2016.

 

 

 

 

Comments on “Perceiving Persistence Conditions” by Evan Welchance, 2023 APA Eastern Division, Canada, January 2023.

 

 

 

Pre-dissertation Fellowship ($4,500), 2023.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 

The Best Paper Award at 17^th Gateway Graduate Conference ($100), 2023.                                     

 

University Fellowship. 2021-Present

:Awarded to one student in each incoming graduate philosophy cohort. Involves extra stipend and exemption from teaching duties the first and fourth years of the program.

 

Assistantship A ($15,000), 2016-2018                                                                                  

 

Grade Improvement Scholarship ($1,000), 2015                                                                          

 

Department Secondary Honor Scholarship ($1,000), 2014                                                          

 

 

 

“Way-Nominalism: an Ontological Ground for Non-Nominal Quantification”

“On the Metaphysical Nature of Properties as Second-order entities: Ways Reality is carved up”

 

“Russell’s Paradox, Self-applicability, and Higher-order Metaphysics”

 

“Generics (Essence, Identity, Grounding) and Ways: A Defence against Fine and Correia”

 

“Unsaturatedness, Predicates, and combinators”

 

 

 “Survival and Essence: objectual vs. generic essence.”

 

 “Closure and (Against) the Impurist Solution to the Threshold Problem”.

 

“A Semantical Account of Focus-Effect Differences”

 

 

Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University

 

Logic - PHI 251 (Michael Rieppel)                                                                   Fall 2022

 

Critical Thinking - PHI 171 (Erica Shumener)                                             Spring 2023

 

Media Ethics – PHI 293                                                                                   Fall 2023

 

 

 

American Philosophical Association (APA), Eastern Division

 

Australasian Association of Philosophy

 

The Canadian Philosophical Association