Education

• Ph.D., Tsinghua University, 2010; Joint Ph.D. student (China Scholarship Council), University of Pittsburgh, 2008-2009.

• B.A., Nanjing University, 2005.

Experience

• Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, ECNU, 2016.12-present

• Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, 2014.9-2015.3

• Assistant Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010.7-2016.11

Research Interests

• Epistemology, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Social Sciences

Selected Publications

In English

1. “Mechanism and Productive Event”, Scientific Explanation and Methodology of Science, G. Guo & C. Liu (eds). World Scientific Publishing, 2014, pp. 212-226

2. “Laws, Causality and the Intentional Explanation of Action”, Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2010, vol. 5, No. 2

In Chinese

1. Understanding the Social: from normativity to mechanism, Beijing: Huaxia Press 2016

2. “A Normative Account of Causal Knowledge: Wilfrid Sellars on Synthetic a priori”, Ren Min Da Xue Xue Bao, 2018, (5)

3. “Humean, Neo-Humean, and Anti-Humean Theories of Causation: From the View of Virtue Epistemology”, Academic Monthly (Xue Shu Yue Kan), 2018, 50(2)

4. “Philosophy of Social Sciences and Its Methodology (Symposium)”, Hua Dong Shi Fan Da Xue Xue Bao, 2018, (3)

5. “The Factivity and Fictionality of Scientific Understanding”, Studies in Philosophy of Science and Technology (Ke Xue Ji Shu Zhe Xue Yan Jiu), 2018, 35(1)

6. “Making Sense of Scientific Understanding in Virtue Epistemology”, World Philosophy (Shi Jie Zhe Xue), 2017, (3)

7. “Scientific Understanding and Its Mechanistic Conception: from the view of epistemic luck”, Journal of Dialectics of Nature (Zi Ran Bian Zheng Fa Tong Xun), 2016, 38(5)

8. “Expression of Intention and Self-knowledge of Action”, Philosophical Research (Zhe Xue Yan Jiu), 2014, (6)

9. “On Perceptual Experience of Knowledge of Causation and Laws of Nature”, Philosophical Research (Zhe Xue Yan Jiu), 2012, (5)

Professional Membership

• Council Member of Chinese Philosophy of Science Association;

• Council Member of Chinese Wittgenstein Society;

• Council Member of Chinese Society of Epistemology.