https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/Recent content on Injin WooHugo -- 0.147.2enhttps://injin-woo-phil.github.io/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/about/<h1 id="about-me">About Me</h1> <p>You can contact me at <a href="mailto:jaegoi@skku.edu">jaegoi@skku.edu</a></p> <h1 id="interests">Interests</h1> <p>Social Ontology, Social Philosophy of Language, Scientific Understanding, Pyrrhonism, Silhak.</p> <h2 id="education">Education</h2> <ul> <li>Ph.D. student in Philosophy, Sungkyunkwan University, 2026 –</li> <li>M.A. in Philosophy, Sungkyunkwan University, 2026</li> <li>B.A. in Philosophy, Sungkyunkwan University, 2024</li> <li>B.A. in Korean Literature in Classical Chinese, Sungkyunkwan University, 2024</li> </ul> <h2 id="professional-service">Professional Service</h2> <ul> <li>2025 – Institute for Philosophy and Liberal Arts Education, Sungkyunkwan University, Research Assistant.</li> <li>2025–2026, 2026 – The Academy of Mobility Humanities, Konkuk University, HK researcher.</li> <li>2025 – Korean Association for Logic, Secretary.</li> </ul> <p>Name: 우인진, 禹仁眞, Injin Woo.</p>https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/blog/2026-04-black26/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/blog/2026-04-black26/<p>In this roundtable, other critics and I discussed what can be said about gugak (Korean traditional music) fandom.</p> <p><a href="https://webzine.kotpa.org/vol26_black?uid=9363&amp;mod=document&amp;pageid=1" target="_blank">Read the roundtable (in Korean)</a></p>https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/cv/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/cv/<p><a href="https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/assets/cv.pdf">Download PDF</a></p> <p><em>Last updated: Oct 2026</em></p> <h2 id="areas">Areas</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Areas of Specialisation</strong> — Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of AI</li> <li><strong>Areas of Competence</strong> — Social Ontology, Scientific Understanding, History of Philosophy in Korea</li> </ul> <h2 id="education">Education</h2> <ul> <li>Ph.D. student in Philosophy, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, 2026 –</li> <li>M.A. in Philosophy, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, 2026</li> <li>B.A. in Philosophy, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, 2024</li> <li>B.A. in Korean Literature in Classical Chinese, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, 2024</li> </ul> <h2 id="thesis">Thesis</h2> <ul> <li>M.A. thesis (2026.06): Coincidence and the Reference of Social Group Terms. Advisor: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/seongsooparkphilosophy/" target="_blank">Seongsoo Park</a>. Committee: <a href="https://professor.skku.edu/researcher/professorList.do?mode=view&amp;perId=LZStrOwEwbAQg7gCgggBhAJQBoFcBMAbARgRgEsAzAZzgBU4BeaoA&amp;jojikCode1=3162&amp;categoryId=U" target="_blank">Byeongdeok Lee</a>, <a href="https://jeonggyulee.weebly.com" target="_blank">Jeonggyu Lee</a>.</li> </ul> <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2> <ul> <li>(2025.04) <a href="http://journal.kstudy.com/service-journal/view.asp?PdfOK=True&amp;clientName=%ec%84%9c%ec%96%91%ea%b7%bc%eb%8c%80%ec%b2%a0%ed%95%99%ed%9a%8c&amp;sortType=0&amp;langType=KOR&amp;clientKey=2398&amp;curPage=1&amp;pageScale=10&amp;searchType=1&amp;totCate=&amp;totText=&amp;pubKey=31185&amp;pubYear=2025&amp;pubVN=25@0&amp;detailKEYN=4168320" target="_blank">“경험론과 합리론의 대립을 넘어서: 경험적 자세의 철학사적 의의”</a> (Beyond the Opposition of Empiricism and Rationalism: The Historical Significance of the Empirical Stance), <em>근대철학 (Modern Philosophy)</em> 25.</li> </ul> <h2 id="presentations">Presentations</h2> <ul> <li><em>All you zombies: Knowing Other Minds in an Age of Generative AI</em> — Peking University, China, Dec 2026.</li> <li><em>Simonelli on Assertibility of pure LLMs</em> — <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/masashikasaki2/%e3%82%a4%e3%83%99%e3%83%b3%e3%83%88/philosophical-interchange-2-0-between-sungkyunkwan-and-nagoya-university?authuser=0" target="_blank">2nd Philosophical Interchange between Sungkyunkwan and Nagoya University, Nagoya University</a>, Japan, 25 Oct 2026; Writing Sample Workshop, Yonsei University, South Korea, Aug 2026; <a href="https://philsci.or.kr/2026conference/" target="_blank">2026 KSPS Annual Conference, Gwacheon National Science Museum</a>, South Korea, July 2026; Suseon Philosophy Society Reboot, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, July 2026.</li> <li><em>When the State Matches: State-Run Dating Apps and Infrastructural Violence</em> — <a href="https://www.apaonline.org/mpage/2027eastern" target="_blank">2027 APA Eastern Division Meeting, Papers in Progress Workshop Sessions</a>, Boston, MA, Jan 2027; <a href="https://www.mobilityhumanities.net" target="_blank">Global Mobility Humanities Conference, Konkuk University</a>, South Korea, Oct 2026.</li> <li><em>On the Reference of Social Groups under Reductive Materialism</em> — 25th Colloquium of the Institute for Philosophy and Liberal Arts Education, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, Aug 2026; <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/masashikasaki2/%e3%82%a4%e3%83%99%e3%83%b3%e3%83%88/philosophical-interchange-between-sungkyunkwan-and-nagoya-university?authuser=0" target="_blank">Philosophical Interchange between Sungkyunkwan and Nagoya University, Nagoya University</a>, Japan, Nov 2025.</li> <li><em>Augmented Intellect: AI as Extended Cognition in Scientific Understanding</em> — <a href="https://www.mobilityhumanities.net/conference-programme" target="_blank">2025 Global Mobility Humanities Conference, Konkuk University</a>, South Korea, Dec 2025; <a href="https://25swpml.wordpress.com" target="_blank">2025 Seoul Workshop in Philosophy of Machine Learning, Seoul National University</a>, South Korea, Feb 2025.</li> <li><em>Frenemies in the Same Boat: A Critical Assessment of Explanatory Voluntarism and Its Implications for the DRK View of Scientific Understanding</em> — <a href="https://philsci.or.kr/2025%eb%85%84-%ec%a0%95%ea%b8%b0%ed%95%99%ec%88%a0%eb%8c%80%ed%9a%8c-%eb%b0%9c%ed%91%9c%ec%9e%90-%eb%aa%a8%ec%a7%91/" target="_blank">KSPS 2025 Annual Conference, Seoul National University</a>, South Korea, July 2025; <a href="https://appsa2025taiwan.mystrikingly.com" target="_blank">APPSA-LMPST Taiwan 2025, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University</a>, Taiwan, June 2025.</li> <li><em>‘절름발이’는 왜 부도덕한 표현인가? (Why is the term ‘lame’ considered morally wrong?)</em> — <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/ksap-grad-division/biannual-workshop/past-workshops?authuser=0" target="_blank">The 21st KSAP Grad Division Workshop, Seoul National University</a>, South Korea, Aug 2025; <a href="http://www.srih.kr/bbs/board.php?tbl=bbs41" target="_blank">Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities 12th Conference, Sookmyung Women’s University</a>, South Korea, June 2025.</li> </ul> <h2 id="teaching-experience">Teaching Experience</h2> <ul> <li>Teaching Assistant, Sungkyunkwan University: <ul> <li>Formal Logic (형식적 논리학), Fall 2026 – present</li> <li>Logical Thinking (논리적 사고), Fall 2024 – Fall 2025, Fall 2026 – present</li> <li>Linguistic Analysis (언어논리입문), Spring 2024 – Spring 2025</li> <li>Academic Writing (학술적 글쓰기), Spring 2024 – Spring 2025</li> <li>Data Analysis and Situational Judgement (자료해석과 상황판단), Spring 2024</li> </ul> </li> <li>Short Course Instructor — SKKU AICOSS &amp; Songpa-gu Chaeum Class (Jamsin High School): A Philosophical Understanding of AI (5 days, 2025)</li> </ul> <h2 id="professional-service">Professional Service</h2> <ul> <li>2025 – Institute for Philosophy and Liberal Arts Education, Sungkyunkwan University, Research Assistant.</li> <li>2025–2026, 2026 – The Academy of Mobility Humanities, Konkuk University, HK researcher.</li> <li>2025 – Korean Association for Logic, Secretary.</li> </ul> <h2 id="grants--awards">Grants &amp; Awards</h2> <ul> <li>2026–2027: Samil Scholarship (Doctoral Program, Full Tuition), The Samil Foundation.</li> <li>2026: Black Talker 2026, Young Critic of Traditional Performing Arts, Korean Traditional Performing Arts Foundation.</li> <li>2025: Winner’s Scholarship, 2025 Academic Paper Competition for Emerging Scholars, Sookmyung Institute of Humanities.</li> <li>International Conference Travel Grant, Sungkyunkwan University. <ul> <li><em>Frenemies in the Same Boat: A Critical Assessment of Explanatory Voluntarism and Its Implications for the DRK view of Scientific Understanding</em>, APPSA-LMPST 2025. Taipei, Taiwan.</li> </ul> </li> <li>2024–present: TA Scholarship.</li> <li>2024: Simsan Scholarship.</li> </ul> <h2 id="public-writing">Public Writing</h2> <ul> <li>(2026.05) <a href="https://webzine.kotpa.org/vol27_black?uid=9622&amp;mod=document&amp;pageid=1" target="_blank">모든 결합이 도약인 것은 아니다: 크로스오버라는 이상한 덧셈</a> (Not Every Combination Is a Leap: The Strange Arithmetic of Crossover), <em>공진단 블랙 (Gongjindan Black)</em> 27.</li> <li>(2026.04) <a href="https://webzine.kotpa.org/vol26_black?uid=9366&amp;mod=document&amp;pageid=1" target="_blank">우리 핏줄에는 국악이 흐르지 않는다: 가족으로서의 국악 팬덤</a> (Gugak Does Not Run in Our Blood: Gugak Fandom as Family), <em>공진단 블랙 (Gongjindan Black)</em> 26.</li> </ul>https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/blog/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/blog/<p>External contributions and non-academic pieces. Follow the links to read them.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://webzine.kotpa.org/vol27_black?pageid=1&amp;mod=document&amp;uid=9622" target="_blank">Not Every Combination Is a Leap — The Strange Arithmetic of Crossover</a> — 공진단 블랙, vol.27, 2026-05</li> <li><a href="https://webzine.kotpa.org/vol27_black?uid=9596&amp;mod=document&amp;pageid=1" target="_blank">Asking After the Present of Our Music — The State of Gugak (Korean traditional music) as Diagnosed by the Blacktalkers</a> — 공진단 블랙, vol.27, 2026-05</li> <li><a href="https://webzine.kotpa.org/vol26_black?mod=document&amp;uid=9366" target="_blank">Gugak (Korean traditional music) Does Not Run in Our Blood</a> — 공진단 블랙, vol.26, 2026-04</li> <li><a href="https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/blog/2026-04-black26/">Black Talk: Is It Possible? Blacktalkers on Gugak Fandom</a> — 공진단 블랙, vol.26, 2026-04</li> </ul>https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/research/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/research/<h2 id="publications">Publications</h2> <ul> <li>(2025.04) <a href="https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/papers/woo2025-empirical-stance/">“경험론과 합리론의 대립을 넘어서: 경험적 자세의 철학사적 의의”</a> <em>근대철학</em> 25, 113–143. <a href="https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/assets/woo2025-empirical-stance-preprint.pdf">Author manuscript PDF</a> <ul> <li>Beyond the Opposition of Empiricism and Rationalism: The Historical Significance of the Empirical Stance</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h2 id="work-in-progress">Work in Progress</h2> <ul> <li>A paper on <strong>Materialism in Social Ontology</strong>.</li> <li>A paper on <strong>AI and Inferentialism</strong>.</li> <li>A paper on <strong>Scientific Understanding</strong>.</li> <li>A paper on <strong>Stance Voluntarism applied to the History of Philosophy</strong>.</li> </ul> <h2 id="thesis">Thesis</h2> <ul> <li>M.A. thesis (2026.06): Coincidence and the Reference of Social Group Terms <ul> <li>Advisor: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/seongsooparkphilosophy/" target="_blank">Seongsoo Park</a></li> <li>Committee: <a href="https://professor.skku.edu/researcher/professorList.do?mode=view&amp;perId=LZStrOwEwbAQg7gCgggBhAJQBoFcBMAbARgRgEsAzAZzgBU4BeaoA&amp;jojikCode1=3162&amp;categoryId=U" target="_blank">Byeongdeok Lee</a>, <a href="https://jeonggyulee.weebly.com" target="_blank">Jeonggyu Lee</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul>https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/presentation/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/presentation/<h2 id="upcoming">Upcoming</h2> <h3 id="all-you-zombies-knowing-other-minds-in-an-age-of-generative-ai">All you zombies: Knowing Other Minds in an Age of Generative AI</h3> <ul> <li>Peking University, China, Dec 2026</li> </ul> <h3 id="when-the-state-matches-state-run-dating-apps-and-infrastructural-violence">When the State Matches: State-Run Dating Apps and Infrastructural Violence</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.apaonline.org/mpage/2027eastern" target="_blank">2027 APA Eastern Division Meeting, Papers in Progress Workshop Sessions</a>, Boston, MA, Jan 2027 <ul> <li><a href="https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/assets/slides-dating-apps-2026.pdf">Slides</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h2 id="past-talks">Past Talks</h2> <h3 id="simonelli-on-assertibility-of-pure-llms">Simonelli on Assertibility of pure LLMs</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/masashikasaki2/%e3%82%a4%e3%83%99%e3%83%b3%e3%83%88/philosophical-interchange-2-0-between-sungkyunkwan-and-nagoya-university?authuser=0" target="_blank">2nd Philosophical Interchange between Sungkyunkwan and Nagoya University, Nagoya University</a>, Japan, 25 Oct 2026</li> <li>Writing Sample Workshop, Yonsei University, Aug 2026</li> <li><a href="https://philsci.or.kr/2026conference/" target="_blank">2026 KSPS Annual Conference, Gwacheon National Science Museum</a>, July 2026</li> <li>Suseon Philosophy Society Reboot, Sungkyunkwan University, July 2026 <ul> <li><a href="https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/assets/slides-simonelli-2026-en.pdf">Slides (English)</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3 id="when-the-state-matches-state-run-dating-apps-and-infrastructural-violence-1">When the State Matches: State-Run Dating Apps and Infrastructural Violence</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.mobilityhumanities.net" target="_blank">Global Mobility Humanities Conference, Konkuk University</a>, Oct 2026 <ul> <li><a href="https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/assets/slides-dating-apps-2026.pdf">Slides</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3 id="on-the-reference-of-social-groups-under-reductive-materialism">On the Reference of Social Groups under Reductive Materialism</h3> <ul> <li>25th Colloquium of the Institute for Philosophy and Liberal Arts Education, Sungkyunkwan University, Aug 2026</li> <li><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/masashikasaki2/%e3%82%a4%e3%83%99%e3%83%b3%e3%83%88/philosophical-interchange-between-sungkyunkwan-and-nagoya-university?authuser=0" target="_blank">Philosophical Interchange between Sungkyunkwan and Nagoya University, Nagoya University</a>, Japan, Nov 2025 <ul> <li><a href="https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/assets/slides-social-groups-2026.pdf">Slides</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3 id="augmented-intellect-ai-as-extended-cognition-in-scientific-understanding">Augmented Intellect: AI as Extended Cognition in Scientific Understanding</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.mobilityhumanities.net/conference-programme" target="_blank">2025 Global Mobility Humanities Conference, Konkuk University</a>, Dec 2025</li> <li><a href="https://25swpml.wordpress.com" target="_blank">2025 Seoul Workshop in Philosophy of Machine Learning, Seoul National University</a>, Feb 2025 <ul> <li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vru5FGh3DHx4KqBMCOX6K1_e1LhPamBz/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Abstract</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3 id="frenemies-in-the-same-boat-a-critical-assessment-of-explanatory-voluntarism-and-its-implications-for-the-drk-view-of-scientific-understanding">Frenemies in the Same Boat: A Critical Assessment of Explanatory Voluntarism and Its Implications for the DRK View of Scientific Understanding</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://philsci.or.kr/2025%eb%85%84-%ec%a0%95%ea%b8%b0%ed%95%99%ec%88%a0%eb%8c%80%ed%9a%8c-%eb%b0%9c%ed%91%9c%ec%9e%90-%eb%aa%a8%ec%a7%91/" target="_blank">KSPS 2025 Annual Conference, Seoul National University</a>, July 2025</li> <li><a href="https://appsa2025taiwan.mystrikingly.com" target="_blank">APPSA-LMPST Taiwan 2025, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University</a>, Taiwan, June 2025 <ul> <li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iG0_6UtSLpMvS_fOW4S5rD6et64_VZ8f/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Abstract</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3 id="절름발이는-왜-부도덕한-표현인가-why-is-the-term-lame-considered-morally-wrong">‘절름발이’는 왜 부도덕한 표현인가? (Why is the term ‘lame’ considered morally wrong?)</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/ksap-grad-division/biannual-workshop/past-workshops?authuser=0" target="_blank">The 21st KSAP Grad Division Workshop, Seoul National University</a>, Aug 2025</li> <li><a href="http://www.srih.kr/bbs/board.php?tbl=bbs41" target="_blank">Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities 12th Conference, Sookmyung Women’s University</a>, June 2025 <ul> <li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r705D42EDAfv6ttxX9B6qoSm49suYt_F/view?usp=share_link" target="_blank">Draft (in Korean)</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h2 id="comments">Comments</h2> <ul> <li>Comments on Annalisa Coliva, <em>Social and Applied Hinge Epistemology</em> — AI Epistemology Seminar, Yonsei University, Feb 2025</li> </ul> <p>Course presentation · Youngchae&rsquo;s Voice in <em>Mujeong</em> (2026) · <a href="https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/assets/slides-youngchae-voice-2026.pdf">Slides PDF</a></p>https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/papers/woo2025-empirical-stance/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/papers/woo2025-empirical-stance/<h1 id="경험론과-합리론의-대립을-넘어서-경험적-자세의-철학사적-의의">경험론과 합리론의 대립을 넘어서: 경험적 자세의 철학사적 의의</h1> <p><strong>Beyond the Opposition of Empiricism and Rationalism: The Historical Significance of the Empirical Stance</strong></p> <p>우인진 (Injin Woo), 성균관대학교</p> <p>『근대철학』 제25집 (서양근대철학회, 2025), pp. 113–143. DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.52677/mph.2025.04.25.4" target="_blank">10.52677/mph.2025.04.25.4</a></p> <p><strong><a href="https://injin-woo-phil.github.io/assets/woo2025-empirical-stance-preprint.pdf">저자 원고 PDF 내려받기</a></strong> · <a href="https://doi.org/10.52677/mph.2025.04.25.4" target="_blank">게재본 (DOI)</a> · <a href="https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART003199427" target="_blank">KCI 서지정보</a></p> <blockquote> <p>여기 올린 PDF는 **저자 원고(투고본, 2025년 3월 4일 투고)**이다. 학회의 편집과 조판을 거친 게재본과는 표현과 쪽수가 다르다. 인용할 때에는 게재본의 서지사항과 쪽수를 사용하기 바란다.</p></blockquote> <h2 id="요약문">요약문</h2> <p>근대 철학사를 서술할 때, 철학자들을 경험론자와 합리론자로 분류하는 것이 일반적인 관행이다. 이 구분은 19세기의 철학사 해석에서 비롯한 것이다. 본 논문은 경험론-합리론 이분법 형성의 역사와 그 한계를 검토한 뒤에, 반 프라센의 &lsquo;경험적 자세&rsquo; 개념을 경험론 역사 이해의 대안 모델로 제시한다. 우리는 경험론을 고정된 교의가 아니라 철학적 자세로 간주하여야 한다. 새롭게 해석된 경험론을 통해 근대 철학사에 관한 새로운 통찰을 제시할 수 있다. 논의는 다음과 같이 진행된다. 1) 경험론-합리론 이분법 구도의 역사적 형성과 이분법에 대한 비판, 2) 경험적 자세 개념과 이 개념의 철학사 서술에서의 함의, 3) 철학사에 자세 개념을 적용하는 데 따르는 잠재적 문제들, 4) 전통적 구도를 넘어선 새로운 철학사 서술 방향에 관한 제안.</p>