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Graduate Student Directory

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

Research Interests

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

Biography, Education and Training

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

Selected Publications

Book Review: An Instinct for Truth: Curiosity and the Morality Character of Science, Robert T. Pennock, PSA Newsletter (forthcoming)

“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) *Revised Draft

Selected Presentations

“Personhood and Rationality as an Attributional Property; A Critique on David Lewis’ Theory of Radical Interpretation,” Papers in Progress Workshop, The APA Division Conference (2025)

“Perceptual Bias and Epistemic Blame,” Graduate Symposium, UC Santa Cruz (2024)

"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)