June 25, 2020
Persevering to publication
Department of Philosophy graduate student Soohyun Ahn鈥檚 paper 鈥鈥 was the winner of our and has now been accepted for publication in the .
This is Soohyun鈥檚 first publication, and the result of significant perseverance over several years. The paper was first developed for a Winter 2016 Topics in Philosophy of Science: Historical Narratives & Historicity course with Dr. Marc Ereshefsky. She is personally very attached to the paper because she was pregnant at the time (and cannot believe her daughter is now old enough to have conversations with her!).
Her conference submissions of the paper were rejected several times, but this only further motivated her to develop, transform and ultimately improve it. It has since been presented at two conferences: the 2018 poster forum of the and as a paper entitled 鈥淭he Role of Non-Epistemic Values in Scientific Classification鈥 at the . It was also accepted for presentation at the in early June 2020, but the event itself was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
鈥淚 just never gave up on this paper despite so many hardships鈥 says Soohyun. 鈥淭his paper represents the growth and change in my life in 不良研究所.鈥