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Enoch Yim
  • Title
    • PhD Student
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • Philosophy Department
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Humanities & Social Sciences Building, N/A
  • Mail Stop Philosophy

Research Interests

metaphysics, meta-epistemology, and philosophy of language: normativity, rule-following, necessity, meaning, nature of rationality

 

meta-ethics: freewill, personhood, equality

 

history of philosophy: early modern (Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant), contemporary (Carnap, Quine, D. Lewis, Sellars, Brandom, McDowell)

Biography, Education and Training

MA in philosophy, SFSU (2020)
BA in philosophy, UC Berkeley (2017)

Selected Publications

“In Defense of Kant’s Deduction of Pure Aesthetic Judgments,” American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-Journal (2022)

 “On the Possibility of Empiricism: A Critique of McDowellian Conceptualism,” M.A. Thesis, SFSU (2020)

Selected Presentations

"Lanaguage and Personhood," Research Workshop, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (2024)

“Mere Verstand: The Kantian Story of the Possibility of Knowledge,” BSD Graduate Conference, UC Davis (2022)