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    This paper proposes a metaphysical framework for distinguishing between human and machine intelligence. It posits two identical deterministic worlds -- one comprising a human agent and the other a machine agent. These agents exhibit different information processing mechanisms despite their apparent sameness in a causal sense. Providing a conceptual modeling of their difference, this paper resolves what it calls “the vantage point problem” – namely, how to justify an omniscient perspective throug…Read more
  • Social Responsibility and Ethics in STEM Education: The State of the Field
    with Quintin Kreth, Daniel S. Schiff, Jason Borenstein, and Ellen Zegura
    In E. Hildt, K. Laas, C. Miller & E. Brey (eds.), Building Inclusive Ethical Cultures in STEM, Springer Verlag. pp. 19-33. 2024.
    The relationship between ethics education and recent scholarship on social responsibility is crucial to explore. At times, ethics education has been designed to focus narrowly on compliance with rules and regulations. In contrast, other forms of ethics education emphasize direct attention to social responsibility and the types of obligations that future professionals have to society. In this chapter, we provide an overview of social responsibility, including some of its intellectual foundations,…Read more
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    The mechanistic model depicts scientific explanations as involving the discovery of multi-level, organized components that constitute a target phenomenon. Meanwhile, sensorimotor enactivism purports to offer a scientifically informed account of perceptual experience as a skill-laden interactive relationship, constitutively involving both perceiver and world, rather than as an agent-bound representation of the world. Insofar as sensorimotor enactivism identifies an empirically tractable phenomeno…Read more
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    This paper proposes a metaphysical framework for distinguishing between human and machine intelligence. Specifically, it posits two identical deterministic worlds -- one comprising a human agent and the other comprising a machine agent. These agents exhibit different types of information processing mechanisms despite their apparent sameness in a causal sense. By postulating the distinctiveness of human over machine intelligence, this paper resolves what it refers to as “the vantage point problem…Read more
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    Changing your mind about the data: Updating sampling assumptions in inductive inference
    with Brett K. Hayes, Joshua Pham, Andrew Perfors, Keith Ransom, and Saoirse Connor Desai
    Cognition 245 (C): 105717. 2024.
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    This paper proposes a metaphysical framework for distinguishing between human and machine intelligence. By drawing an analogy from Kant’s incongruent counterparts, it posits two identical deterministic worlds -- one comprising a human agent and the other comprising a machine agent. These agents exhibit different types of information processing mechanisms despite their apparent sameness in a causal sense. By postulating the distinctiveness of human over machine intelligence, this paper resolves w…Read more
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    This article examines preparatory labor practices that South Korean farmers had to undertake to use chemical fertilizers in the 1960s. Preparatory labor, such as learning about and acquiring fertilizers, that came prior to the use of chemical fertilizer in the field was mundane and often invisible. However, it was this logistical and emotional labor that was essential for the maintenance of South Korea’s chemical fertilizer system. In the system, which was part of the government’s efforts to est…Read more
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    The potential of plant action potentials
    with Paco Calvo
    Synthese 202 (6): 1-30. 2023.
    The mechanism underlying action potentials is routinely used to explicate the mechanistic model of explanation in the philosophy of science. However, characterisations of action potentials often fixate on neurons, mentioning plant cells in passing or ignoring them entirely. The plant sciences are also prone to neglecting non-neuronal action potentials and their role in plant biology. This oversight is significant because plant action potentials bear instructive similarities to those generated by…Read more
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    Preservation of NATP
    with Jinhoo Ahn, Joonhee Kim, and Hyoyoon Lee
    Journal of Mathematical Logic. forthcoming.
    We prove the preservation theorems for NATP; many of them extend the previously established preservation results for other model-theoretic tree properties. Using them, we also furnish proper examples of NATP theories which are simultaneously TP2 and SOP. First, we show that NATP is preserved by the parametrization and sum of the theories of Fraïssé limits of Fraïssé classes satisfying strong amalgamation property. Second, the preservation of NATP for two kinds of dense/co-dense expansions, i.e. …Read more
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    From Puzzle to Progress: How Engaging With Neurodiversity Can Improve Cognitive Science
    with Marie A. R. Manalili, Amy Pearson, Justin Sulik, Louise Creechan, Mahmoud Elsherif, Inika Murkumbi, Flavio Azevedo, Kathryn L. Bonnen, Judy S. Kim, Konrad Kording, Manifold Obscura, Steven K. Kapp, Jan P. Röer, and Talia Morstead
    Cognitive Science 47 (2). 2023.
    In cognitive science, there is a tacit norm that phenomena such as cultural variation or synaesthesia are worthy examples of cognitive diversity that contribute to a better understanding of cognition, but that other forms of cognitive diversity (e.g., autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder/ADHD, and dyslexia) are primarily interesting only as examples of deficit, dysfunction, or impairment. This status quo is dehumanizing and holds back much-needed research. In contrast, the neurodiver…Read more
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    This paper proposes a new metaphysical framework for distinguishing between human and machine intelligence. By drawing an analogy from Kant’s incongruent counterparts, it posits two deterministic worlds -- one comprising a human agent and the other comprising a machine agent. Using ideas from Wittgenstein and Gödel, the paper defines “deterministic knowledge” and investigates how this knowledge is processed differently in those worlds. By postulating the distinctiveness of human intelligence, th…Read more
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    How Does Taxation Affect Corporate Social Responsibility? Evidence from a Korean Tax Reform
    with Hyejin Park and Jewon Shin
    Journal of Business Ethics 1-30. forthcoming.
    We examine the effects of taxes on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Employing a tax reform in Korea that imposed a new tax on cash retention, we find that treated firms improved CSR performance after the tax reform was enacted. This result is driven by improvement in environmental and social performance. Moreover, the observed improvement is more pronounced in treated firms that face less severe financial constraints, are afforded fewer investment opportunities, feature large foreign owner…Read more
  •  96
    This paper proposes a new metaphysical framework for distinguishing between human and machine intelligence by drawing on Kant’s incongruent counterparts as an analogy. Specifically, the paper posits two deterministic worlds that are superficially identical but ultimately different. Using ideas from Wittgenstein, Gödel, and Cantor, the paper defines “deterministic knowledge” and investigates how this knowledge is processed differently in those two worlds. The paper considers computationalism and …Read more
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    Ideological diversity, hostility, and discrimination in philosophy
    with Uwe Peters, Nathan Honeycutt, and Andreas De Block
    Philosophical Psychology 33 (4): 511-548. 2020.
    Members of the field of philosophy have, just as other people, political convictions or, as psychologists call them, ideologies. How are different ideologies distributed and perceived in the field? Using the familiar distinction between the political left and right, we surveyed an international sample of 794 subjects in philosophy. We found that survey participants clearly leaned left (75%), while right-leaning individuals (14%) and moderates (11%) were underrepresented. Moreover, and strikingly…Read more
  • Short Papers Part-Information Retrieval-A Computer-Assisted Environment on Referential Understanding to Enhance Academic Reading Comprehension
    with Wing-Kwong Wong, Yu-Fen Yang, Hui-Chin Yeh, Chin-Pu Chiao, and Sheng-Cheng Hsu
    In O. Stock & M. Schaerf (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag. pp. 1119-1124. 2006.
  • Two Trees Make a Forest vol. 1
    Penguin Canada. 2020.
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    Hannah Arendt’s political thought is generally regarded as advocating nonviolence. Witnessing the rise of totalitarianism and its tragedy, she developed her political theory to recover the politica...
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    This article is to explore whether the achievement of moral character is the ultimate goal of higher education from a cross cultural approach. To discuss this study logically, three major research questions are addressed. First, what are the concepts of moral, ethics, and character? Second, what is the achievement of moral character from the Eastern and the Western perspectives? Third, what is the role of higher education for the achievement of moral character? To defend these research questions…Read more
  • The Political Self
    with T. Stevens Sean and M. Anglin Stephanie
    In Frédéric Guay (ed.), Self-concept, motivation, and identity underpinning success with research and practice, Information Age Publishing. 2015.
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    The call for ecological validity is right but missing perceptual idiosyncrasies is wrong
    with Emily Balcetis
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45. 2022.
    Although psychology has long professed that perception predicts action, the strength of the evidence supporting the statement depends on the ecological validity of the technologies and paradigms used, particularly those that track eye movements, supporting Cesario's argument. While right to call for ecological validity, Cesario's model fails to account for individual differences in visual experience perceivers have when presented with the same stimulus.
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    Sluggish cognitive tempo is a cluster of attentional symptoms characterized by slow information processing and behavior, distractibility, mental confusion, absent-mindedness, and hypoactivity. The present study aimed to compare early and late selective attention in the information processing speed of adults with SCT to those with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and adults without any attentional problems. The participants were screened using Barkley Adult ADHD Rating Scale-IV and divide…Read more
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    Properties of Central and Peripheral Concepts of Emotion in Japanese and Korean: An Examination Using a Multi-Dimensional Model
    with Eun-Joo Park, Mariko Kikutani, Naoto Suzuki, and Machiko Ikemoto
    Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
    The concept of emotion can be organized within a hypothetical space comprising a limited number of dimensions representing essential properties of emotion. The present study examined cultural influences on such conceptual structure by comparing the performance of emotion word classification between Japanese and Korean individuals. Two types of emotional words were used; central concepts, highly typical examples of emotion, and less typical peripheral concepts. Participants classified 30 words in…Read more
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    Smartphone-Based Psychotherapeutic Micro-Interventions to Improve Mood in a Real-World Setting
    with Gunther Meinlschmidt, Esther Stalujanis, Angelo Belardi, Minkyung Oh, Eun Kyung Jung, Hyun-Chul Kim, Janine Alfano, Seung-Schik Yoo, and Marion Tegethoff
    Frontiers in Psychology 7. 2016.
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    What is cognitive about ‘plant cognition’?
    Biology and Philosophy 38 (3): 1-21. 2023.
    There is growing evidence that plants possess abilities associated with cognition, such as decision-making, anticipation and learning. And yet, the cognitive status of plants continues to be contested. Among the threats to plant cognitive status is the ‘Representation Demarcation Challenge’ which points to the absence of a seemingly defining aspect of cognition, namely, computation over representation with non-derived content. Defenders of plant cognition may appeal to post-cognitivist perspecti…Read more
  •  5
    Transformation of the Concept of Multiplicity : From Riemann to Deleuze
    EPOCH AND PHILOSOPHY 30 (4): 89-121. 2019.
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    Saving Callicles in the Gorgias – An Argument from Plato’s Later Dialogues -
    Journal of the New Korean Philosophical Association 110 119-132. 2022.
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    Review of neurocognitive mechanisms: Explaining biological cognition (review)
    Philosophical Psychology 35 (4): 617-620. 2022.