My research focuses on what is not up to us, what we take as our own, what brings us together, and what keeps us apart.

• In action theory, I am interested in deciding, effort, skilled action, disability, and shared agency.
• In moral psychology, I am interested in the distinct stages of romantic love, along with themes of self-pity, loneliness, moral worth, and absurdity.
• In social epistemology, I am interested in echo chambers, fake news, epistemic hinges, and irrelevant influences.

Recently, I have become interested in bridging cognitive science and social psychology with philosophy, especially, how cognitive mechanisms inform action theory, and how empirical social research enriches moral psychology and social epistemology. I have also become interested in topics at the intersection of metaphysics and philosophy of science, particularly causes, dispositions, and potentialities.

Works in progress

• A paper on Kane’s torn decisions (under review)
• A paper on a critique of Mele’s compatibilism
• A paper on loving and separating
• A paper on reasons to begin to love
• A paper on deliberation when seeing each other
• A paper on fast friends
• A paper on beliefs relevant to race, gender, and culture
• A paper on fake news and free speech
• A paper on a critique of pragmatic skepticism
• A paper on value management in science
• A paper on duties to oneself

I also have philosophical interests in issues specific to Korean society. Here are some topics I intend to work on in the near or far future.

• about the secular partisanship of the nominal and dogmatic K-Christians
• about the burden and fatigue of some(썸) relationships (‘some’: a romantic yet ambiguous stage prior to becoming partners)
• about responsibility and accountability in cases of disaster(참사)
• about the meaning of ‘jiral(지랄)’ (IMO, a kind of bullshit involving certain evaluative judgments)
• about moral attitudinal barriers to living together between disabled and non-disabled people
• about the 2024 Korean medical strike as a form of collective bargaining
• about structural injustice toward the disabled, the illegal protests of Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination(전장연), and disability-related political correctness
• about the phenomenon of hikikomori and social withdrawal among Korean youth
• about the ethics of celebrity, particularly concerning de dicto moral motivation and the asymmetry of morality
• about an anarchist approach to political obligation regarding mandatory military service