Shin was an undergraduate in Korea. There, she became interested in the philosophy of art and the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, but did not have the funding for graduate study in France. Instead, she obtained a fellowship to Ohio State University, but transferred to Stanford University a year later, in 1987,[1] after earning a master's degree at Ohio State.[3] At Stanford, under the influence of Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy, her interests shifted to logic,[1] and by 1991 she had completed her dissertation, Valid reasoning and visual representation, under the supervision of Etchemendy.[4][5]
Shin's first faculty position was at the University of Notre Dame.[1] In 2002 she moved from Notre Dame to her present position at Yale University.[3][6]
Books
Shin's books include:
The Logical Status of Diagrams (Cambridge University Press, 1995)[7]
The Iconic Logic of Peirce’s Graphs (MIT Press, 2002)[8]
Visual Reasoning with Diagrams (edited with Amirouche Moktefi, Birkhäuser, 2013)
Personal life
Shin is married to Henry E. Smith, the Fessenden Professor of Law at Harvard University.[9]
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