Sun–joo Shin

Professor of Philosophy
205 CT Hall
203.432.6971
sun–joo.shin@yale.edu

Areas of Interests

Logic, Philosophy of Logic, History of Logic, Philosophy of Linguistics, Philosophy of Language

Education

PhD 1991, Stanford University

Current or Recent Courses Taught

• Logical Theory
• Introduction to logic
• Formal Semantics
• Visual Thinking
• Philosophy of linguistics
• Mind and Language
• Introduction to Philosophy

Selected Publications

• The Iconic Logic of Peirce’s Graphs, MIT, Bradford), 2002.
• The logical Status of Diagrams, Cambridge, 1994.
• “Diagrams” (with Oliver Lemon), Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2001.
• “Reviving the Iconicity of Beta Graphs,” Theory and Application of Diagrams, Springer, 2000.
• “Reconstituting Beta Graphs into an Efficacious System,” Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 1999.
• “Kant’s Syntheticity Revisited by Peirce,” Synthese, 1998.
• “Euler’s Visual Logic” (with Eric Hammer), History and Philosophy of Logic 19, 1998.
• “A Situation–Theoretic Account of Valid Reasoning with Venn Diagrams,” Logical Reasoning with Diagrams, Barwise and Allwein (eds.), Oxford, 1996.
• “Peirce and the Logical Status of Diagrams,” History and Philosophy of Logic, 1994.

Works in Progress

• “Diagrams and Logical form”
• “Carnap through a Quninean Lenz”