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Halla Kim
Curriculum Vitae – April 2016
12506 Harney Circle Department of Philosophy
Omaha, NE 68154 and Religion
U.S.A. 205H Arts & Sciences Hall
(402) 201-9914 University of Nebraska
E-mail:[email protected] Omaha, NE 68182-0265
U.S.A.
(402) 554-3934
Education
Ph.D., University of Iowa, August 1997
M.A., University of California, Irvine, May 1990
B.A., Cum Laude, Sogang University, Feb. 1987
Major: Philosophy Minor: Religious Studies
Ph.D. Dissertation
"The Possibility of Practical Reason: An Essay on Kant's
Justification of Ethics"
Dissertation Advisor: Professor Günter Zöller
Academic Employment
Visiting Professor:
2015 Jan.- Feb. Shizuoka University, Japan
Visiting Research Professor:
2015 June, Center for Asian Pacific Studies
University of San Francisco
2014 August, The Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2014 May - June, Center for Asian Pacific Studies University of San Francisco
2011 McCall Fellow, American Geographical Society Library,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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Visiting Associate Professor:
2011 Summer, Department of Philosophy
Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
Visiting Research Fellow:
2001 Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
University of Iowa
Faculty Member, The Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish
Studies:
2012 - University of Nebraska, Omaha
Professor:
2016- Department of Philosophy
University of Nebraska, Omaha
Associate Professor:
2007- Department of Philosophy
University of Nebraska, Omaha
Assistant Professor:
2001- Department of Philosophy
University of Nebraska, Omaha
Visiting Assistant Professor:
1999-01 Department of Philosophy
University of Nebraska, Omaha
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy:
1999-99 Department of Philosophy, Loras College, Dubuque,
Iowa
Adjunct Assistant Professor:
1997-99 Department of Philosophy, University of Iowa
Teaching Assistant:
1994-96 Department of Philosophy, University of Iowa
1988-90 Department of Philosophy, University of
California, Irvine
Tutor:
1993 Summer, Symbolic Logic,
Athletics, Student Services, University of Iowa
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Publications
Books:
Transcendental Inquiry: Its History, Method, and Critiques (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). Co-
edited with Stephen Hoeltzel. Peer-reviewed.
Kant and the Foundations of Morality (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2015). Peer-reviewed.
ISBN 978-0-7391-7900-0 (Hardback)
$95.00 • (£59.95) ISBN 978-0-7391-7901-7 (eBook)
$94.99 • (£59.95) Pages: 296, Size: 6 x 9
Kant, Fichte and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism
(Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2014), co-
edited with Stephen Hoeltzel. Peer-reviewed.
ISBN 978-0-7391-8235-2 (Hardback)
$95.00 • (£59.95) ISBN 978-0-7391-8236-9 (eBook)
$94.99 • (£59.95) Pages: 304, Size: 6 x 9
Articles:
“How Transcendental is Hermann Cohen’s Critical Idealism?”
Transcendental Inquiry: Its History, Method, and Critiques (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
“Editors’ Introduction”
Transcendental Inquiry: Its History, Method, and Critiques (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
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“Locke on Abstraction,” Philosophia Osaka (Oct, 2014)
“Ham Seokheon and the Rise of Philosophy of History in Korea”
Journal of Korean Religions(forthcoming). Peer-reviewed.
“From Structure to Action: Gwon Geun on Che-yong” in Phillip
J. Ivanhoe, ed. Essays in Korean Traditional Philosophy (Rowman and Littlefield: forthcoming). Peer-reviewed.
“Keel, Hee-Sung,” in Justin McDaniel, Mark Rowe & Jeffrey
Samuels, eds. Figures of Buddhist Modernity(Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, forthcoming).
“Ki and the Spirituality in Chosŏn Neo-Confucianism: The Case of Kwŏn Kun and Chŏng Yagyong,” in Suck Choi, et al.,
eds. Ki and Philosophy (Lexington Books, forthcoming).
Kant, Immanuel, Benjamin Crowe, ed. The Nineteenth
Century Philosophy Reader (London and New York: Routledge, 2015).
“Nothingness in Korean Buddhism: The Struggle Against
Nihilism,” in JeeLoo Liu, ed. Nothingness in Asian Philosophy (London and New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. 230-245. Peer-
reviewed.
“Abstraction in Fichte,” Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockemore,
eds. Fichte and Transcendental Philosophy (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
“Editors’ Introduction,” Kim and Hoeltzel
eds., Kant, Fichte and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism
(Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2014).
“Pistorius, Kant, and Accessing Reality,” Kim and Hoeltzel
eds., Kant, Fichte and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism
(Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2014).
“Kant on the Deduction of Morality,” Sogang Journal of
Philosophy
“Kant on Experience in Practical Philosophy,” Journal of
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East-West Thought, Kyungpuk University Institute of East-
West Thought (August, 2011).
"The Unity of Pure Practical Reason: Towards a Unified
Interpretation of the Three Formulas of Kant’s Categorical Imperative" in Rohden, Valerio, Terra, Ricardo R., Almeida,
Guido A. (eds.) Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants. Akten des
X. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008), Vol. 3, pp. 211–221.
“The Unity of Kant’s Categorical Imperative,”
Southwestern Philosophy Review, Volume 20:1 (2004), pp. 75- 82. Peer-reviewed.
“Locke on Innatism,” Locke Studies, Volume 3(2003), pp. 15- 39. Peer-reviewed.
“Has Kant Committed the Fallacy of Circularity in the
Foundations?” Journal of Philosophical Research, Volume 27 (2002), pp. 65-81. Peer-reviewed.
Review Article:
Review of Jin Y. Park, trans. Reflections of a Zen Buddhist
Nun (Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 2014),
Journal of Chinese Philosophy (forthcoming)
Works under Submission:
“Confucianism before Confucius: The Rectification of Names”
Works in Progress:
Universals in Early Modern Philosophy (a book-length manuscript, in progress; available, Winter
2018)
An Introduction to Korean Philosophy, (a book-length manuscript, MS available Winter
2017)
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Explorations in Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics, co-ed, with Curtis Hutt and Berel Dov Lerner
“Recent Work on Kant’s Practical Philosophy in English” “Kant and Doctrine of the Unity of Reason” “Kant and the Doctrine of the Fact of Reason”
“Hegel on Concrete Universals” “Nishida Kitaro on Universals”
Translations
The Four Expositional Methods of Yijing. An English translation of Tasan Chŏng Yagyong’s Chuyŏk Sajŏn (with Bang, In,)in progress
Hyŏng’isanghak (Seoul: Sŏkwangsa, 1994). A complete Korean translation of Bruce Aune, Metaphysics: the Elements
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985)
Korean Gardens (Seoul: Borim, 1993). An English translation of Min Kyung-Hyun, Hankuk Jŏngwon Munhwa (Seoul: Ilchogak, 1990), two volumes
Areas of Specialization
Kant/German Idealism, Modern philosophy
Areas of Competence
Asian Philosophy/Korean Philosophy, Modern Jewish Thoughts
Scholarly Presentations
“Hermann Cohen and the Foundations of Ethics,” Kant Congress, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2015
“Imagism and Fichte’s Criticisms of J. S. Beck’s Phenomenalism,” Fichte Congress, Madrid, Spain, Sept. 2015
“How Transcendental is Hermann Cohen’s Critical Idealism?”
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Transcendental Philosophy and Metaphysics Conference, Osaka
University, April 2015
“The Cosmological Foundations of Kwon Kun’s Doctrine of Yijing,” APA Central Division Meetings, 2015
“Reason in Conflict: Kant and Mendelssohn on the Possibility Of Metaphysics,” Colloquium, Sogang University, December 2014
“Emotions and Their Therapy: Some Existential Dimensions of Korean Neo-Confucianism,” Colloquium, Kyungpook National University, December 2014
“From Structure to Action: Kwon Kun on Che-yong,” City University of Hong Kong, December 2014
“The True Mind and the Real Mind: Chinul and Kwon Kun on the Nature of the Mind,” The Spirit of Korean Philosophy Conference, Oct. 2014, Univ of Nebraska at Omaha
“Hermann Cohen on Law and Ethics,” The Conference on Jewish Religious Ethics and Philosophy, April, 2014, University of
Nebraska at Omaha
“Recent Work on Korean Philosophy in the English Speaking Countries,” Oct., 2013, Yonsei University
“Ham Sŏkhŏn and the Rise of Philosophy of History in Korea” Conference on Korean Christianity, October, 2013, UCLA
“Ham Sŏkhŏn and the Rise of Philosophy of History in Korea” Conference on philosophical currents in Korean Responses to
Modernity, August 2013, Univ. of San Francisco
"Nothingness in Korean Buddhism,” Osaka University, Japan, July 2013
"Recent Work on Kant's Practical Philosophy,” Chonnam National University, Korea, June 2013
"What is Kant's Categorical Imperative?" KyungPook
National University, Korea, June 2013
“What is going on in North Korea Today? Philosophical
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Foundations of North Korean Politics of Brinksmanship,” Omaha Foreign Affairs Council, Omaha, NE, April 2012
“Confucianism before Confucius: The Doctrine of Rectification of names and the Yijing,” APA Pacific Division Meetings, 2013
“Abstraction in Fichte,” North American Fichte Conference, Quebec City, Canada, May 2012
“Pistorius, Kant, and Accessing Reality” Conference on Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of German Idealism, Omaha, NE, April
13-14, 2012
“Morality as Self-determination,” European Studies Conference, Omaha, NE, October 2011
“A Brief History of Nothingness” Global Studies Conference, Omaha, NE, October 2011
“The Structure of Kant’s Deduction of the Moral Law in the Groundwork,” Colloquium, Sogang University, Korea, July 2011
“Kant on Experience in Practical Philosophy,” Kyungpook University, Institute of East-West Thought, Korea July
2011
“Kant on Examples in Moral Philosophy,” the 35th Conference on Value Inquiry, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, April
2011
“What is Kant’s Ethics?” 35th European Studies Conference, UNO, October 2010
“Wŏnhyo and Kant on Enlightenment,” Global Studies Conference, UNO, October 2010
“The Cosmological Foundations of Two Traditional Maps from Korea: Kangnido and Taedong Yŏjido,” Arts and Sciences Centennial Lecture, University of Nebraska at Omaha, April
2010
“The Philosophical Significance of Kim Jŏngho’s Taedong
Yŏjido (The Great Map of Korea),” University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Nov. 2009
“Kant on Properties,” 34th European Studies Conference, UNO, October 2009
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“The Traditional Philosophy in Korea: Some Questions,” Global Studies Conference, UNO, October 2009
“Kant and Fichte on Autonomy,” 33st European Studies Conference, UNO, October, 2008
“Spinoza on Universals,” The World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul, Korea, August 2008
“Kant’s Method of Transition in the Groundwork,” The World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul, Korea, August 2008
“Kant on Reason,” 31st European Studies Conference, UNO, October, 2006
“The Unity of Reason and the Unity of the Categorical Imperative in Kant,” University of Munich, Germany, July 2006
“The Unity of Pure Practical Reason,” The Xth International Kant Congress, Sao Paolo, Brazil, September
2005
“Are Kant’s Categorical Imperative A Priori Synthetic?” 29th European Studies Conference, UNO, October, 2004
“The Unity of Kant’s Categorical Imperative,” The Southwestern Philosophy Society Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN,
November, 2003
“Locke on Innatism,” Minnesota Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, September, 2002
Distance Participant, NEH Summer Institute –“Religion and
Politics in China” Summer 2001(University of Hawaii)
“The Reception of Kant’s Critical Philosophy in Korea: 1900-
2000,” The Third World Conference, October 2000 (Omaha, Nebraska)
“The Underlying Structure of Kant’s Groundwork,” The European Studies Conference, October 2000 (Omaha, Nebraska)
“Has Kant Committed the Fallacy of Circularity in
Foundations?” Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois, February 1999 (Invited paper)
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“Kant’s Problem of the Hidden Circle in the Foundations,” Department Colloquium, November 1999 (Department of
Philosophy and Religion, University of Nebraska, Omaha)
“The Metaphysical Foundations of Kant’s Ethics,” Iowa Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, October 1999
(University of Iowa, Iowa City)
“Kant’s Problem of the Hidden Circle in the Foundations,” Central States Philosophical Association Annual Meeting,
October 1999 (Norman, Oklahoma)
“Kant’s Early Critique of Hutcheson,” University of Minnesota, Morris, February 1998 (invited paper)
“Kant’s Problem of the Hidden Circle in the Foundations,” Iowa Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, November 1997 Iowa
State University, Ames,Iowa)
“Locke's Abstract General Ideas as Images: Some Questions,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 1995 (New York City)
“The Chinese Boxes Absurdity,” Central States Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, October 1994
(Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee)
“Van Cleve on the Argument from Geometry,” Iowa Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, November 1993
(Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa)
Honors and Awards
Academy of Korean Studies Conference Grant, 2014
University of San Francisco, Travel Grant, 2014
Japan-American Collegiate Exchange Travel Grant 2013
Japan-American Collegiate Exchange Travel Grant 2012
McCall Fellowship, American Geographical Society Library,
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2011
UNO University Committee on Research Summer Fellowship, 2011
Faculty Development Fellowship, UNO, 2007
German Language Scholarship, DAAD, December 2007
Honorary member, Delta Phi Alpha, The National German Honor
Society, March 2004
UNO University Committee on Research Summer Fellowship, 2003
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Seashore Dissertation Year Fellowship (University of Iowa),
1996-7
Graduate College Fellowship (University of Iowa), 1993-4
University Tuition Fellowship (Univ. Cal. Irvine), 1989-90
University Tuition Fellowship (Sogang University), 1983-7
Honors Theses Directed
2007 May Justin Wheeler, “Two Dogmas Revisited”
2005 December Nate Martin “Hume and Kant on Rational Action” 2003 August Laura Chapo, “Moral philosophy of Aristotle
and Kant” 2002 May Ryan Feagan, “Quine’s Radical Empiricism”
Courses Taught
University of Nebraska at Omaha:
Problems in Philosophy: Kant’s Moral Philosophy East Asian Philosophy/Korean philosophy
Introduction to Philosophy
Nineteenth Century Philosophy
Kant
History of Jewish Philosophy
History of Modern Philosophy
Theory of Knowledge
Problems in Philosophy: British Empiricism
Independent Study: Relativism
Critical Reasoning
Contemporary Moral Problems
Philosophy of Language
Loras College:
Philosophy of Human Person
University of Iowa:
Philosophy and Human Nature
Introduction to Ethics
Principles of Reasoning
Philosophy and Just Society
Introduction to Logic
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Journal Article Review
Referee for Philosophy East and West 2015-
Referee for Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 2015-
Referee for Acta Koreana 2015-
Referee for Journal of Korean Religions 2015-
Referee for Southwest Philosophy Review, 2009-
Referee for European Studies Conference Proceedings, 2006-
Referee for Journal of Religion and Film, 2003
Service Activities
A. Professional Activities
A1. Administrative Activities
Founder and Vice President, North American Korean Philosophy
Association (NAKPA)
External Reviewer, Office of Latino Studies, Univ of
Nebraska, Omaha, March 2014
Faculty Advisor, Platonic Society, Undergraduate Philosophy
Club, UNO, 2003-
Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and
Philosophies, American Philosophical Association (APA),
2010-2014
UNO Study Abroad Scholarship Selection Committee 2009-
UNO German American Scholarship Selection Committee 2009-
Coordinator, East Asian Studies Group, UNO, 2008-
Steering Committee, European Studies Conference, UNO, 2008-
Steering Committee, Global Studies Conference, UNO,
2008-2014
Interim Chair, Philosophy Program, UNO, Jan. – Aug. 2005 Faculty Advisor, UNO Korean Student Association 2006-
Member, Personnel Committee, Department of Philosophy and
Religion, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2001-
A2. Editorial Board
Korean Journal of Philosophy, published by Korean
Philosophical Association, 2013-
Sogang Journal of Philosophy, published by Sogang Institute
of Philosophy, Seoul, South Korea, 2009-
Journal of Eastern and Western Thought, Kyungpook National
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University, Daegu, South Korea 2011-
European Studies Conference Proceedings, University of
Nebraska at Omaha 2006-present
A3. Comments on papers
Commentator, Mary McLeod, “Mathematical Themes in Kant’s Moral Philosophy,” Central States Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, Memphis, October, 2006
Commentator, R. Cagle, “The Convergence of Natural and Moral Teleology: How Kant Justifies Reading History
Teleologically,” Minnesota Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, October, 2003
A4. Moderators
American Philosophical Association, Panel discussion on
Contemporary East Asian Philosophy, Seattle, April, 2012
Central States Philosophical Association Annual
Meetings, 2000 & 2002 & 2006
European Studies Conference Annual Meetings, Omaha,
Nebraska,2004-
Global Studies Conference Annual Meetings, Omaha, Nebraska,
2006-
A5. Conferences organized
Transcendental Philosophy and Metaphysics (an
international conference on German Idealism, the Second
Series), Osaka, Japan,
April 22-24, 2015, Osaka University (Co-organizer)
The Spirit of Korean Philosophy, Omaha, October, 2014
The Schwalb Conference on Jewish Religious and Philosophical
Ethics, Omaha, April, 2014
The Development of Buddhism in Korea, APA Pacific Meetings,
March 2014
The Development of Confucianism in Korea, APA Eastern
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Meetings, December 2013
Yijing and Its Contemporary Significance, APA
Pacific Meetings, March, 2013
Kant, Fichte and the Legacy of German Idealism (an
international conference on German Idealism) Omaha, NE,
April 2012
Contemporary Philosophical Development in East Asia, APA
Pacific Meetings, April, 2012
Workshop on East Asian Buddhism, Global Studies Conference,
UNO, April 2011
Workshop on Kant, European Studies Conference, UNO, April
2011
Workshop on Japanese acceptance of Western educational
Ideas,
Global Studies Conference, UNO, April 2011
Workshop on Kant, European Studies Conference, UNO, April
2011
Workshop on East Asian philosophy, Global Studies
Conference,
UNO, April 2009
Workshop on Kant, European Studies Conference, UNO, April
2009
A6. Competition Committee
European Studies Conference, Graduate Student Best Essay
Award Committee, 2010- present
B. Non-Professional Activities
Principal, Korean Language School of Nebraska, Omaha 2004-
Board Member, Korean Association of Nebraska, Omaha, 2003-6
President, Korean Association, Iowa City, Iowa 1995-6
Board Member, Iowa Korean Language School, Iowa 1995-2000
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Languages
Korean & English (native languages), German (Zertifikat
Deutsch B1 & B2 - reading, speaking, writing), Japanese
(intermediate reading, speaking, writing with Kanji
certificates), French (advanced reading, elementary speaking
and writing) Classical Chinese (Reading), Mandarin Chinese
(elementary speaking and writing)
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Philosophical Association
North American Kant Society
North American Korean Philosophy Association
The Hegel Society of America
North American Fichte Society
Internationale Fichte Gesellshaft
Kant Gesellshaft
Central States Philosophical Association
Minnesota Philosophical Society
Iowa Philosophical Society
Personal Data
Date of Birth : August 13, 1964
Marital Status : Married with two children
References
Karl Ameriks, Professor of Philosophy, Univ. of Notre Dame
Daniel Breazeale, Professor of Philosophy, Univ. Kentucky
Chaeyun Chong, Professor of Philosophy, Sogang Univ. Korea
Tatyana Novikov, Professor of Russian, Univ. Nebraska Omaha
Tom Rockmore, Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne Univ. and
Peking Univ, China
Günter Zöller, Professor of Philosophy, Univ Munich Germany