Joungbin Lim

Professor
TROY University
Troy, Alabama 36082
Patterson Hall 226
Telephone: 1-334-670-3515
jlim@troy.edu

Education:

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Virginia
M.A. in Philosophy, Texas A&M University
M.A. in Theology, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A. in Philosophy, Chung-Ang University

Areas of Expertise:

Areas of Specialization: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion

Areas of Competence: Ethics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Asian Philosophy

Biography:

Joungbin Lim is a professor of philosophy at 星空传媒. Before joining Troy in 2015, he was an assistant professor of philosophy at Elizabeth City State University. His primary research area is metaphysics, with a particular focus on personal identity and its connections to the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of mind. He is also interested in ethics, epistemology, and Asian philosophy. He has delivered many conference papers, including at the American Philosophical Association, the World Congress of Philosophy, the Midsouth Philosophy Conference, the Society for Christian Philosophers, the Evangelical Philosophical Society, the Alabama Philosophical Society, and the Joint Meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society and the South Carolina Society for Philosophy. He has taught a wide range of courses, including Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, Critical Thinking, Logic, Philosophy of Religion, Applied Ethics, the Metaphysics of Persons, Social and Political Philosophy, Religious Epistemology, World Religions, Women and Religion, and History of Christianity. In 2012, he received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the National Society of Leadership and Success in recognition of his teaching excellence and dedication to student success.

Publications

"The Dualist Metaphysics of the Incarnation and the Too Many Thinkers Problem" (2025), Metaphysica: International Journal for Ontology and Metaphysics, 26, pp. 19-38.
"What the Remnant Person Problem Really Implies"(2023), Acta Analytica 38, pp. 667鈥�687.
鈥淚n Defense of Physicalist Christology鈥� (2021), Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions 60, pp. 193-208.
鈥淎re We Essentially Animals?鈥� (2019), Philosophical Forum 50, pp. 383-409.
鈥淚s Mathematical Knowledge a Precedent for Modal Knowledge?: A Novel Objection to Lewis's Modal Epistemology鈥� (2018), SATS: Northern European Journal of Philosophy 48, pp. 183-199.
鈥淪trategy for Animalism鈥� (2018), Axiomathes 28, pp 419鈥�433.
鈥淭he Incompatibility of Animalism and Eliminativism鈥� (2017), Philosophical Forum 48, pp. 395-407.
鈥淧hysicalism and Neo-Lockeanism about Persons鈥� (2016), Philosophical Psychology 29, pp. 1229-1240.
鈥淒erivative Properties and the Too Many Thinkers Problem鈥� (2014), Metaphysica: International Journal for Ontology and Metaphysics 15, pp. 369-380.
鈥淒ivine Providence and Human Freedom in the Tradition of Aquinas: A Defense of Theological Compatibilism鈥� (2014), Testamentum Imperium: An International Theological Journal 2, pp. 1-14.
鈥淣aturalistic Epistemology, Normativity, and Self鈥� (2010), Rethinking Philosophy Today: Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 53, Theory of Knowledge, pp. 171-182.
鈥淒ualism, Physicalism, and the Passion of the Christ鈥� (2010), Rethinking Philosophy Today: Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 45, Philosophy of Religion, pp. 185-197.

Courses Taught at TROY:

Introduction to Philosophy
Ethics and the Modern World
Logic
Critical Thinking
General Topics in Philosophy: Death
Western Philosophy
Applied Ethics
Philosophy of Religion
Selected Topics in Philosophy: Personal Identity