President of FISP
Professor Emerita, Ewha Womans University, Korea

e-mail: hkim[at]ewha.ac.kr

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Heisook Kim is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Ewha Womans University, Korea, where she also served as President from 2017 to 2021. Her research interests span epistemology, philosophical methodology, the philosophy of art, and feminist philosophy. She has held leadership roles as President of the Korean Philosophical Association, the Korean Association of Feminist Philosophy, and the Korean Analytic Philosophy Association. Additionally, she served as a board member of the International Association of Philosophy and as a member of the Comité Directeur (CD) of FISP.

Kim earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1987 and returned to Ewha Womans University, where she assumed a professorship in philosophy. She has also served as Dean of Scranton College, Director of the Ewha Institute for the Humanities, and Director of the Ewha Institute of Philosophy.

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