Soyeong An

Faculty

Assistant Professor

Email soyeong.an@unco.edu

Phone 970-351-1322

Location McKee 301

Office Hours MWF 12:15 - 2:15 pm or email for appointment

Education

Ph.D. in Philosophy, Ohio State University, 2023
Ph.D. program in Philosophy, Yonsei University, 2013-2015 (left the program with good standing to join the doctoral program at OSU.)
M.A. in Philosophy, Ewha Womans University, 2012
B.A. in Philosophy and English Language and Literature, Ewha Womans University, 2010

2023-2024: Senior Instructor, The Ohio State University
2021-2023: Instructor, The Ohio State University
2019-2020: Teaching Assistant, The Ohio State University
2015-2016: Research Assistant, Transdisciplinary Research Program: Big Data, Computer Science and Philosophy, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
2013-2014: Teaching Assistant, Yonsei University

Towards A New Non-Ontic Conception of Scientific Explanation – Doctoral Dissertation, 2023
“Living Without Ontic Explanation” – Currently under revision; its earlier version was presented with the title “Challenging the Ontic Conception of Scientific Explanation” at Philosophy of Science Association 27th Biennial meeting (PSA 2021).
“Towards A Cognitive Approach to Scientific Explanation” – Currently under revision; Presented with the same title at the 10th Biennial Conference of the Asia-Pacific Philosophy of Science Association (APPSA 2023).
“A New Epistemic Conception of Scientific Explanation” – Currently under revision; Will pe presented at the 11th Biennial Conference of the Asia-Pacific Philosophy of Science Association (APPSA 2025) and the 2025 Annual Conference of the Taiwan Association for Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science and Technology (LMPST Taiwan 2025).