Youjin Kong Assistant Professor
Appointed at SNU : 2024
Major : Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Location : Building 6, Room 314
Tel : 02-880-8066
Email : youjinkong@snu.ac.kr
Research
“Social Identity at the Margins: A Decolonial Approach.” The Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory (2024)
“Intersectional Feminist Theory as a Non-Ideal Theory: Asian American Women Navigating Identity and Power.” Ergo (2023)
“Recreating Asian Identity: Yellow Peril, Model Minority, and Black and Asian Solidarities.” APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies (2023)
“Are ‘Intersectionally Fair’ AI Algorithms Really Fair to Women of Color? A Philosophical Analysis.” FAccT: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (2022)
Keynote Panel Speaker: "Implementing Intersectionality in Algorithmic Fairness." ACM FAccT Conference, June 2022.
“(Un)Fairness in AI: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis.” Blog of the American Philosophical Association, Women in Philosophy Series (2022)
“Evolutionary Psychology, Rape, and the Naturalistic Fallacy.” 철학연구 (2021)
“‘Non-Idealizing Abstraction’ as Ideology: Non-Ideal Theory, Intersectionality, and the Power Dynamics of Oppression.” Social Philosophy Today (2017)
“Feminism and Historicist Universalism: A Critical Analysis of Richard Rorty’s Anti-Universalism.” The Pluralist (2017)
“Intersectional Feminist Theory as a Non-Ideal Theory: Asian American Women Navigating Identity and Power.” Ergo (2023)
“Recreating Asian Identity: Yellow Peril, Model Minority, and Black and Asian Solidarities.” APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies (2023)
“Are ‘Intersectionally Fair’ AI Algorithms Really Fair to Women of Color? A Philosophical Analysis.” FAccT: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (2022)
Keynote Panel Speaker: "Implementing Intersectionality in Algorithmic Fairness." ACM FAccT Conference, June 2022.
“(Un)Fairness in AI: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis.” Blog of the American Philosophical Association, Women in Philosophy Series (2022)
“Evolutionary Psychology, Rape, and the Naturalistic Fallacy.” 철학연구 (2021)
“‘Non-Idealizing Abstraction’ as Ideology: Non-Ideal Theory, Intersectionality, and the Power Dynamics of Oppression.” Social Philosophy Today (2017)
“Feminism and Historicist Universalism: A Critical Analysis of Richard Rorty’s Anti-Universalism.” The Pluralist (2017)
Education
- 2019 Ph.D., Philosophy, Michigan State University
- 2013 M.A., Philosophy, Seoul National University
- 2011 B.A. Philosophy, Seoul National University
Career
- 2023-2024 Assistant Professor, Philosophy, University of Georgia
- 2020-2022 Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Oregon State University
- 2015-2019 Graduate Instructor, Philosophy, Michigan State University
