My research focuses on the general philosophy of science, philosophy of biology,
philosophy of artificial intelligence, and mathematical logic relating to category theory.
Research Areas
- Mechanistic explanation
- Philosophy of artificial intelligence
- Scientific representation
- Category theory and structure
- Philosophy of medicine
Publications
- J. Gim. (2025). Representing Temporal Organization in Molecular Biology: A Structuralist Approach. Korean Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 28(2), 1–40.
- 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.
- J. Gim. (2025). Categorical Abstractions for Representing Temporal Organizations of Type Mechanisms. Korean Journal of Logic, 28(1), 81–111.
- J. Gim. (2025). Explaining Moral Judgments as Conscious Phenomena. Sogang Journal of Philosophy, 80, 67–92.
- 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.
- 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.
- J. Gim. (2023). Categorical Abstractions of Molecular Structures of Biological Objects: A Case Study of Nucleic Acids. Global Philosophy, 33(5), Article 43.
- J. Gim. (2023). Data, Representation, and Evidential Values in Biology. Korean Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 26(2), 31–58.
- 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.
Current Projects
2026 — Pony Chung Young Scholar Grant
When Philosophy of Biology Meets Philosophy of Medicine: Re-defining the Concept of Disease and Its Explanatory Role through Mechanisms
Funding: Pony Chung Foundation (40 million KRW, 1 year)
2024–2027 — Young Researchers Fellowship in Basic Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Fellowship number: NRF-2024S1A5A8020682
A Formal Analysis of the Concept of Structure and its Philosophical Applications
Funding: National Research Foundation of Korea (60 million KRW, 3 years)
Current Research Topics (Under Review / In Progress)
Philosophy of Science
- Abstraction, types, and structural invariance in mechanistic explanation
- Conceptual foundations of spatiotemporal organization in the New Mechanism
- Kuhnian and semantic approaches to theories in molecular biology
- Constitutive relevance and mutual manipulability in physiological mechanisms
- Functional diversification and scientific progress in RNA research
- Pragmatic–ontic perspectives on mechanistic explanation
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
- Transparency, interpretability, explainability, and reliability in explainable AI
- Philosophical foundations of computation and the history of artificial intelligence
- Mechanistic perspectives on explainability and normative constraints in AI
- Woodwardian interventionism and the concept of data in machine learning
Philosophy of Medicine
- Pathological mechanisms and the concept of disease
- Mechanistic understanding of diseases in clinical medicine
- Explanatory roles of mechanisms in medical practice
- Normativity and clinical risk in Canguilhem’s philosophy of medicine