Byeong-uk Yi

B.A. & M.A. (Philosophy, Seoul National University); M.A. (History & Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh); Ph.D. (Philosophy, UCLA)

Associate Professor [vita]

Books

Selected Articles

• "Rationality and the Prisoner's Dilemma in David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement", Journal of Philosophy 89 (1992):484-95 [ online ]
• "Glymour on Explanation", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (1994):914-17 [ online ]
• (with Eunshil Bae) "The Problem of Knowing the Forms in Plato's Parmenides", History of Philosophy Quarterly 15 (1998):271-83 [ online ]
• "Numbers and Relations", Erkenntnis 49 (1998):93-113 [ online ]
• "Is Mereology Ontologically Innocent?", Philosophical Studies 93 (1999):141-60 [ online ]
• "Is Two a Property?", Journal of Philosophy 96 (1999):163-90 [ online ]
  
• "Descending Chains and the Contextualist Approach to Semantic Paradoxes", Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 40 (1999):554-67 [ online ]
• "Compact Entailment and Wright's Verification Principle", Mind 110 (2001):413-21 [ online ]
• "Wright and Suárez on the Verification Principle", Analysis 63 (2003): 58-61 [ online ]
• "Newcombe's Paradox and Priest's Principle of Rational Choice", Analysis 63 (2003):237-42 [ online ]
• "The Logic and Meaning of Plurals. Part I", Journal of Philosophical Logic 34 (2005): 459-506 [ online ]
• "The Logic and Meaning of Plurals. Part II", Journal of Philosophical Logic 35 (2006): 239-88 [ online ]
• "Zeno Series, Collective Causation, and Accumulation of Forces", Korean Journal for Logic 11 (2008):129-71 [ online ]
• "The cyclical argument and principles of change in Plato's Phaedo". Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, 12 (2009): 85-102 [ online ]
• "Chinese classifiers and count nouns", Journal of Cognitive Science, 10 (2009): 209-225; rp. in Youngwha Kim (ed.), Plurality in Classifier Languages (Hankook Munwhasa, 2011): 245-264 [ online ]
• "What is a numeral classifier?" Philosophical Analysis 23 (2011): 195-258; partially rp. in Youngwha Kim (ed.), Plurality in Classifier Languages (Hankook Munwhasa, 2011): 1-51.
• "Afterthoughts on Chinese classifiers and count nouns", in Youngwha Kim (ed.), Plurality in Classifier Languages (Hankook Munwhasa, 2011): 265-282.
• "Conditionals and a two-envelope paradox", forthcoming in Journal of Philosophy [32 pages, 9,112 words].
• "Plural quantifications and generalized quantifiers", forthcoming in M. Carrara & F. Moltmann (eds.), Pluralities: Ontology, Logic, and Semantics (Springer, Synthese Library) [23 pages; 6,199 words] [ online ]

Work in progress

• Plurals: The Logoi for the Many (in progress)

1. "Plural quantifications and generalized quantifiers" [ online ]
2. "Is logic axiomatizable?" (in progress)  [ online abstract ]
3. "Is there a plural object?" (in progress)
4. "What numbers should be" (in progress)
5. "Can we see numbers? Can we see sets?" (in progress)  [ online ]
6. "The logic of classes of the no-class theory" (in progress) [ online ]

• Numeral Classifiers and the Mass/Count Distinction (in progress)

1. "Coercion and the mass/count distinction" [online]
2. "Articles and bare nominals" [online]
3. "Classifiers and bare nominals" [online]
4. "Mass nouns, gradable attributes and comparative relations" [ online ]
5. "What is stuff?" (in progress) [online ]
6. "Numeral classifiers and count nouns" (in progress) [ online ]
   
7. "Classifiers and the mass/count distinction" (in progress) [ online ]
8. "Chinese classifiers and count nouns" (published article) [ online ]
9. "White horses are not horses: Kung-sun Lung's paradox, the mass noun thesis, and plural logic" (in progress)

• "Semantic relationism and propositional attitudes" [ online ]
• "Utility and rationality" (in progress) [ online ]
• "Two envelope paradox and causal direction" (in progress) [ online ]
• "A new case for indeterminacy of translation" (in progress) [ online ]