Publications
Research Papers (Peer-reviewed)
Under Review
- “Meaning in Trouble”
- In this papaer, I argue that extension, as traditionally conceived, is not generalizable in the sense required for philosophically fundamental concepts. This yields a dilemma: either abandon the generalizability of the concept or give up the philosophical fundamentality of it. I propose a third route by combining Carnap’s idea of extension with a Leibnizian notion of equivalence defined as the predicational equivalence. This proposal implies a view identifying extension with properties, which provides a uniform, generalizable notion of extension.
- “Religious Language: An Externalist Account”
- This paper aims to establish a semantic framework for religious languages. In particular, I focus on the primitive terms of religious languages—namely, religious primitives. The proposed theory is called CAST, the contextual-attributional-social theory of meaning. This is a Putnamian theory of meaning for religious languages, according to which the meaning of a religious primitive is intended to be determined by some \textit{externalist} factors—ontic, epistemic, and social.
I proceed as follows. In §2, I first consider a Kripke-style causal theory of reference and its core limitation, raised by the problem of meaning-shift. In §3, I introduce CAST as an alternative framework. After articulating CAST, in §4, I address potential challenges, including the problem of meaning-shift, and show how CAST can handle them. In §5, I conclude.
- This paper aims to establish a semantic framework for religious languages. In particular, I focus on the primitive terms of religious languages—namely, religious primitives. The proposed theory is called CAST, the contextual-attributional-social theory of meaning. This is a Putnamian theory of meaning for religious languages, according to which the meaning of a religious primitive is intended to be determined by some \textit{externalist} factors—ontic, epistemic, and social.
2024
- “명제를 위해 대응을 살리기 (en: Reviving Correspondence for Propositions)” in 연세학술논집 (The Journal of Yonsei Graduate Student Association) 179: 194-207.
2023
- “보편자 이론의 딜레마? (en: Any Dilema for Theorizing Universals?)” in 인문과학 (Journal of Humanities) 128: 181-204.
2022
- “‘라고 지식’의 논리적 구조 (en: The Logical Structure of Rago-knowledge” in 철학적 분석 (Philosophical Analysis) 48: 91-123.
Talks
2025
- “Conventionalist Logic 2Dfier (이차원 규약주의 논리)” at 한국논리학회 (Korean Association of Logic) session in 한국철학자연합대회 (Universal Conference of Korean Philosophers), Jeonju, October 25.
2024
- “존재론들을 표상하기 (en: Representing Ontologies)” at 한국분석철학회 대학원생 분과 (Graduate Student Division in Korean Society for Analytic Philosophy), Seoul, August 23.
- “Rethinking Conceptualist Ideology” at Student Session, XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome, August 3.
Works in Progress
- Simple type theory with multi-dimensional modal space (generalization of 2Dfier)
- Logical semantics of Korean postpositions, especially ko (고), eun (은), eseo (에서)
- Conceptual analysis of “vision” (in the context of meaning good perspective)
- Theorizing the abstractness of a sentence within PWS