My name is Minseok (min-suk) Kim. I’m a (4th-year) PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Syracuse University. I completed my BA and MA in philosophy at the Chung-Ang University in South Korea.
I primarily work in Metaphysics. My primary interests within Metaphysics revolve around the topic of properties (e.g., what is a property?). I have always been (and I will be) interested in essence, grounding, and modality (e.g., is it really impossible to reduce essence and grounding to modality?). I also study topics in Philosophy of Language, especially those lying at the intersection with Metaphysics (e.g., the problem of substitution-failure (predicates and property-names)). My secondary interest is in Epistemology, especially pragmatic encroachment and knowledge-closure principles.