Minkyung Wang
I am a philosopher currently working in the Research Group for Logic in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence at Ruhr University Bochum. Prior to this, I worked at CONCEPT and studied at MCMP, of which I remain an external member. My research primarily focuses on formal epistemology, social epistemology, and decision theory. Additionally, I am deeply passionate about logic (epistemic logic and formal argumentation), philosophy of science (Bayesian philosophy of science and philosophy of economics), as well as formal ethics (contemporary utilitarianism and social norms).
On this website, you can find information about my published papers, those under review, ongoing works, and my teaching materials. If you have any questions or are interested in my work, please feel free to contact me via minkyungwang_at_gmail_dot_com.
Research
Credence and Belief: Distance- and Utility-based Approaches, Philosophy of Science, Advance online publication. (with Chisu Kim) Here is the journal version.
Aggregating Individual Credences into Collective Binary Beliefs: An Impossibility Result, Theory and Decision, 97:39–66. Here is the journal version. Here is a slide for a talk.
Aggregating Credences into Beliefs: Agenda Conditions for Impossibility Results (Extended Abstract), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, EPTCS 379, pp 518-526 (with Chisu Kim) Here, you can find a proof-added version.
Aggregating Credences into Beliefs: Threshold-based Approaches, LORI 2023: Logic, Rationality, and Interaction, pp. 269–283. Here is a slide for a talk.
Credence and Belief: Epistemic Decision Theory Revisited, Unpublished Manuscript. Here, you can find the latest version. Here is a slide for a talk.
Conjunction Across Questions, Unpublished Manuscript. (with Chisu Kim) Here is a slide for a talk.
Recent and Upcoming Talks
05 July 2024, Aggregating Credences into Beliefs: Agenda Conditions for Impossibility Results, SSCW 2024, Paris School of Economics, Paris.
25 June 2024, Epistemic Utility Theory of Legal Belief, Theories of Legal Proof, MCMP, Munich. Here is the slide.
03 May 2024, Aggregating Individual Credences into Collective Binary Beliefs, Rationality and Cognition, Ruhr University Bochum. Here is the slide.
06 April 2024, The Utility Theory of Cogent Belief, NEW II, Northeastern University, Boston. Here is the slide.
Teaching
Bayesian Epistemology: Theory, Challenges, and Applications. Winter 202425. Ruhr University Bochum.
Introduction to Formal Epistemology. Summer 2024. Ruhr University Bochum. ( Syllabus )
Introduction to Social Epistemology. Summer 2024. Ruhr University Bochum . ( Syllabus )
Introduction to Formal Epistemology. Summer 2023. The University of Cologne.