Curriculum Vitae
[Last updated: March 2026]

Jinyeong Gim

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea

Email: goldmaker@jnu.ac.kr | Phone: +82-062-530-3234

SCOPUS ID: 57190176089 | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1853-2975

Areas of Specialization

General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy & History of Biology, Mathematical Logic (Category Theory)

Areas of Competence

Philosophy & History of Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy & History of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Applied Ethics

Employment

2026–Present Assistant Professor, Chonnam National University
2022–2026 Lecturer, Seoul National University
2022–2026 Lecturer, Chung-Ang University
2025–2026 Lecturer, Gachon University
2021–2025 Lecturer, Sungkyul University
2020–2023 Lecturer, Dongguk University

Education

Ph.D. History and Philosophy of Science, Seoul National University. Thesis: A Categorical Formalism of Mechanism
M.Sc. History and Philosophy of Science, Seoul National University. Thesis: On Theories in Contemporary Molecular Biology
B.Ed. Ethics Education, Gyeong-In National University of Education

Fellowships and Grants

Publications

Academic Publications (in English)

  1. J. Gim. (2025). Representing Temporal Organization in Molecular Biology: A Structuralist Approach. Korean Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 28(2), 1–40.
  2. J. Gim. (2025). A Unified Bayesian Model of Moral Judgment: From Greene’s Dual-Process to Predictive Coding. Philosophy, Thought, Culture. 48(2), 1–25.
  3. J. Gim. (2025). Categorical Abstractions for Representing Temporal Organizations of Type Mechanisms. Korean Journal of Logic. 28(1), 81–111.
  4. J. Gim. (2025). Explaining Moral Judgments as Conscious Phenomena. Sogang Journal of Philosophy. 80, 67–92.
  5. J. Gim. (2024). An Integrative Neuroscientific Approach to Moral Judgment: Bridging Universal Moral Grammar and Emotional Moral Sentimentalism. Philosophy, Thought, Culture. 46(3), 1–33.
  6. J. Gim. (2023). The Ontic-Epistemic Debates of Explanation Revisited: The Three-Dimensional Approach. Philosophical Problems in Science (Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce), 74, 99–169.
  7. J. Gim. (2023). Categorical Abstractions of Molecular Structures of Biological Objects: A Case Study of Nucleic Acids. Global Philosophy, 33(5): No. 43.
  8. J. Gim. (2023). Data, Representation, and Evidential Values in Biology. Korean Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 26(2), 31–58.
  9. J. Gim. (2016). Special Theory of Relativity in South Korean High School Textbooks and New Teaching Guidelines. Science and Education, 25(5–6), 575–610.

Academic Publications (in Korean)

  1. J. Gim. (2019). An Analysis of Evaluation Index of the Policy of Gyeonggi Province Innovation Education District and Development of a Causal Assessment Instrument. The Korean Journal of Educational Administration, 32(2), 119–147.
  2. J. Gim. (2013). Prinz's Theory of Emotion as a Dual-Appraisal-System: The Relation between Embodied Appraisal and Valence Markers. Philosophical Thought, 50, 133–165.

Teaching Experiences

Chonnam National University

Seoul National University

Chung-Ang University

Gachon University

Sungkyul University

Dongguk University

Conferences

Oral Contributed Presentations (in English)

  1. J. Gim. (2025). Two Pragmatic Roles of Spatiotemporal Organizations in Mechanistic Explanation, The Annual Conference of the Korean Society for the Philosophy of Science, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, 3 July 2025.
  2. J. Gim. (2025). Formalizing Sequential and Dynamic Structures in Molecular Biology: A Category-Theoretical Approach, A Joint Conference of the Asia-Pacific Philosophy of Science Association (APPSA) and the Taiwan Association for Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science and Technology (LMPST), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan, 19 June 2025.
  3. J. Gim. (2021). A Categorical Account of Constitutive Relevance, The 27th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), Baltimore (On-line), USA, 19–22 November 2020–2021.
  4. J. Gim. (2019). Category Theory as a Formal Language of the Mechanistic Philosophy, The 16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST), Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic, 9 August 2019.
  5. J. Gim. (2016). A Simple Experiment and Embarrassed Instructions: Robert Boyle’s Quantitative Experiment, Explanation, and the Mechanical Philosophy, Asia History, Philosophy of Science and Science Teaching Conference, Pusan National University, Republic of Korea, 17 December 2016.
  6. J. Gim. (2014). How to Teach the Special Theory of Relativity with Scientific Thinking, The 2nd International History, Philosophy and Scientific Teaching (IHPST), Asian Regional Conference, Taiwan, 6 December 2014.
  7. J. Gim. (2013). The Discovery of Enzymatic RNAs: A Mechanist Approach, The 4th Biennial Conference of Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), University of Toronto, Canada, 29 June 2013.

Oral Contributed Presentations (in Korean)

  1. J. Gim. (2025). Abstraction, Type, and Structural Invariance for Mechanistic Explanation, The Spring Meeting of the Korean Society for Analytic Philosophy, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 24 May 2025.
  2. J. Gim. (2025). A Mechanistic Understanding of Transparency in XAI, Philosophical Problems in Data-Centered Sciences, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, 25 April 2025.
  3. J. Gim. (2024). Data, Models, and Explanation in Biology, Philosophical Problems in Data-Centered Sciences, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, 14 August 2024.
  4. J. Gim. (2022). Mutual Manipulability, Constitutive Relevance, and a Mechanism of Action Potential, The Annual Conference of the Korean Society for the Philosophy of Science, Seoul National University (On-line), Republic of Korea, 30 June 2022.
  5. J. Gim. (2022). How to Represent Biological Mechanism, The Spring Meeting of the Korean Society for Analytic Philosophy, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 23 April 2022.
  6. J. Gim. (2018). Is There Any Doubt That Biological Mechanisms Exist?, The Annual Conference of the Korean Society for the Philosophy of Science, Korea National University of Education, Republic of Korea, 12 July 2018.
  7. J. Gim. (2017). Robert Boyle’s Quantitative Experiment, Explanation, and Mechanical Philosophy, The 71st Korean Association for Science Education General Meeting and International Conference, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, 10 February 2017.
  8. J. Gim. (2014). How to Teach the Special Theory of Relativity with Scientific Thinking, The 66th Summer Academic Conference and Regular General Meeting of Korean Association for Science Education, Chuncheon National University of Education, Republic of Korea, 7 July 2014.

Poster (in English)

  1. J. Gim. (2013). Defending Prinz’s Theory of Emotion against Barlassina and Newen, The Conference “Emotions: Nature, Recognition, Culture”, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany, 17–19 October 2013.

Professional Activities (International)

References

Available upon request