Dan Yim
Email: dyim@bethel.edu
Job Title
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Professor of Philosophy
History, Philosophy, and Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
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Dr. Yim has interests in early modern philosophy, the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality, the philosophy of popular culture, and the epistemology of self-deception.
Started at Bethel
2006
Education
- University of California - B.A., 1993
- Biola University - M.A. in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, 1997
- University of Southern California - Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2003
Biography
As an undergrad, Yim wanted to study law and make a heap of money. One of his friends suggested that he take a couple of philosophy classes, and so he did. His first philosophy class was a course in formal logic, taught by a philosopher from Austria who barely spoke English. That class was really good. His second class was a course on moral philosophy, taught by a philosopher who thought that there was no such thing as moral knowledge. From then on he was hooked. Those classes ensured that he would neither be a lawyer nor rich. He went on to graduate school near my home, and now he's living in Minnesota after having lived in southern California his whole life. The faculty at Bethel told me that he would enjoy the warm winters here.
Publications
The Irrelevance of Resemblance for Lockian Perception of Bodies. Locke Studies: An Annual Journal of Locke Research (2004): 123-43.
The Logic and Mill's Infamous Proof in Utilitarianism. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (November, 2008): 773-88.
"Wearing Your Values on Your Sleeve," in Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style, edited by Jessica Wolfendale and Jeanette Kennett (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
"Friendship on 30 Rock: what a Greek philosopher can tell us about companionship," in 30 Rock and Philosophy, edited by Jeremy J. Wisnewski (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
"Training Your Inner Thin-Slicer." Forthcoming in Psych and Philosophy, Open Court, 2013.
"Feuerbach's Naturalistic Humanism and the Reinterpretation of Evil." Forthcoming in The History of Evil, Volume IV, Acumen Press, 2013.
Areas of expertise
Dr. Yim has interests in early modern philosophy, the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality, the philosophy of popular culture, and the epistemology of self-deception.