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Junhyung Han

he/him

B.A. in Philosophy & Neuroscience, Connecticut College, 2023

summa cum laude, Distinction in Philosophy, Distinction in Neuroscience

 

I am a first-year Ph.D. student primarily interested in philosophy of science and aesthetics. Although my interests are broad, here are some topics I've been pondering recently:

- The incommensurability (in a Kuhnian term) between indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) and Western science and the possibility of relational ontologies (such as Barad's agential realism and Nadasdy's indeterminacy) being an antidote to the incommensurability

- How aesthetic engagement with the environment can help us mitigate environmental crises

- How to define and understand creativity in the age of artificial intelligence

Outside of philosophy, I love spending time in nature, tasting wines, collecting pins, and Olympic weightlifting.

 

Selected Publications

Turner, D. and Han, J. (2023), “Living fossils and conservation values,” Frontiers in Earth Science 11, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1086066.