Dobin Choi is a university lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy.

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Fields of interest

Early Confucianism (Mengzi)
Comparative Philosophy (Confucianism and British moral philosophy)
Korean Philosophy (Dasan Jeong Yak-yong and “Practical Learning”)
East Asian Neo-Confucianism
Asian aesthetics (Korean contemporary culture)
Normative ethics (virtue ethics)

Research

My research primarily focuses on conducting a comparative study between Confucianism and British moral philosophy, with a particular emphasis on exploring the sentiment-based virtue theories of Mengzi and David Hume. I am interested in the works of the renowned Korean philosopher Dasan Jeong Yak-yong and his reformative practical Confucianism. Another area of my research involves Asian aesthetics and philosophical analyses of Korean contemporary arts and culture. 

CV

Dobin Choi holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Aesthetics from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo, with a specialization in Ethics and Comparative Philosophy. He has been teaching philosophy courses at various universities in the United States and Korea. Most recently, he served as an Assistant Professor at Kookmin University in Seoul, Korea (2022-23), and as a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Iowa from (2018-22).

Publications