Sun-Joo Shin is a Korean-American philosopher known for her work on diagrammatic reasoning in mathematical logic, including the validity of reasoning using Venn diagrams, the existential graphs of Charles Sanders Peirce, and the philosophical distinction between diagrammatic and symbolic reasoning.[1] She is a professor of philosophy at Yale University.[2]
Shin was an undergraduate in Korea. There, she became interested in the philosophy of art and the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, but did not have the funding for graduate study in France. Instead, she obtained a fellowship to Ohio State University, but transferred to Stanford University a year later, in 1987,[1] after earning a master's degree at Ohio State.[3] At Stanford, under the influence of Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy, her interests shifted to logic,[1] and by 1991 she had completed her dissertation, Valid reasoning and visual representation, under the supervision of Etchemendy.[4][5]
Shin's first faculty position was at the University of Notre Dame.[1] In 2002 she moved from Notre Dame to her present position at Yale University.[3][6]
Shin's books include:
- The Logical Status of Diagrams (Cambridge University Press, 1995)[7]
- The Iconic Logic of Peirce’s Graphs (MIT Press, 2002)[8]
- Visual Reasoning with Diagrams (edited with Amirouche Moktefi, Birkhäuser, 2013)
Shin is married to Henry E. Smith, the Fessenden Professor of Law at Harvard University.[9]
"Sun-Joo Shin", People, Yale University Department of Philosophy, retrieved 2023-09-05 "News of former students" (PDF), Logos: A Newsletter from the Ohio State University Department of Philosophy: 10–11, Winter 2003 Reviews of The Logical Status of Diagrams:
- Bird, Alexander (January 1996), Philosophical Books, 37 (1): 50–51, doi:10.1111/j.1468-0149.1996.tb02520.x
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- Boričić, Branislav (1995), MathSciNet, MR 1312613
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- Corsi, Giovanna (June 1997), The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 48 (2): 290–291, doi:10.1093/bjps/48.2.290, JSTOR 687752
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- Englebretsen, George (July 1996), "Review", Modern Logic, 6 (3): 322–330
- Hammer, Eric M. (March 1996), Journal of Symbolic Logic, 61 (1): 341–342, doi:10.2307/2275618, JSTOR 2275618
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- Peterson, Philip L. (June 1996), "Review", Philosophy in Review, 16 (3): 208–210
- de Swart, H. C. M., zbMATH, Zbl 0829.03002
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Reviews of The Iconic Logic of Peirce's Graphs:
- Brenner, Joseph E. (2005), The American Journal of Semiotics, 21 (1): 82–83, doi:10.5840/ajs2005211/47
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- Butler, Edward (2002), Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 23 (2): 233–234, doi:10.5840/gfpj200223212
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- Gasser, James (2003), MathSciNet, MR 1902541
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- Howse, John (February 2003), Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, 14 (1): 119–121, doi:10.1016/s1045-926x(02)00075-7
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- Jacquette, Dale (Winter 2003), Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 39 (1): 127–133, JSTOR 40321061
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- Norman, Jesse (October 2004), Mind, 113 (452): 783–787, doi:10.1093/mind/113.452.783, JSTOR 3489097
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