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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:hallakim@unomaha.edu 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