Professor of Philosophy
205 CT Hall
(203) 432-6971
sun-joo.shin@yale.edu

Education
PhD 1991, Stanford University

Areas of Interest
Logic, Philosophy of Logic, History of Logic, Philosophy of Linguistics, Philosophy of Language

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"