Research Areas

• Scientitic explanation
• Scientific representation
• Category theory and structuralism
• Philosophy of artificial intelligence
• Philosophy of medicine

Publications

1. J. Gim. (2026). Two Types of Structure as Constraints in Mechanistic Modeling.
   
   Korean Journal of Logic, 29(2), 215–251.
2. J. Gim. (2025). Representing Temporal Organization in Molecular Biology: A Structuralist Approach.
   
   Korean Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 28(2), 1–40.
3. 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.
4. J. Gim. (2025). Categorical Abstractions for Representing Temporal Organizations of Type Mechanisms.
   
   Korean Journal of Logic, 28(1), 81–111.
5. J. Gim. (2025). Explaining Moral Judgments as Conscious Phenomena.
   
   Sogang Journal of Philosophy, 80, 67–92.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. J. Gim. (2023). Categorical Abstractions of Molecular Structures of Biological Objects: A Case Study of Nucleic Acids.
   
   Global Philosophy, 33(5), Article 43.
9. J. Gim. (2023). Data, Representation, and Evidential Values in Biology.
   
   Korean Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 26(2), 31–58.
10. 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

Current Research Topics (Under Review / In Progress)

Philosophy of Science

• Abstraction, types, and structural invariance in mechanistic explanation
• Constitutive relevance and mutual manipulability in physiological mechanisms
• Conceptual foundations of spatiotemporal organization in the New Mechanism
• Kuhnian and semantic approaches to theories in molecular biology
• Pragmatic–ontic perspectives on mechanistic explanation
• Functional diversification and scientific progress in RNA research

Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

• Transparency, interpretability, explainability, and reliability in explainable AI
• Mechanistic perspectives on explainability and normative constraints in AI
• Philosophical foundations of computation and the history of artificial intelligence
• 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