The 6th Workshop for Young Scholars in Science and Philosophy

The "Workshop for Young Scholars in Science and Philosophy" represents a series of specialized symposia initiated collaboratively by young scholars from multiple domestic institutions. This academic endeavor aims to facilitate discourse among emerging scholars while advancing philosophical discussions in an environment that harmoniously combines intellectual rigor with dynamic engagement.

The preceding iterations of this workshop were successively hosted by the Department of Philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University (0th), the Department of Philosophy at Nanjing Normal University (1st), the Department of Philosophy at Nanjing University (2nd), the School of Philosophy at Fudan University (3rd), the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University (4th), and the Department of Philosophy at Sichuan University (5th). The 6th workshop is currently being organized by the Institute of Philosophy at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIP).

The workshop attracted over 150 young scholars, faculty members, and students from prestigious institutions worldwide, including but not limited to: Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Renmin University, Minzu University, Xiamen University, Sichuan University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Capital Normal University, Hebei University, Shanxi University, Shaoxing University, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Institute of Philosophy at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Taiwan University, University of California San Diego, University of California Irvine, University of Leeds, University of Sheffield, and the Australian National University. The workshop comprised a two-day program of academic presentations.

Presenters and Topics:

An, Xiuyuan (Graduate Student, Fudan University)

"Choice of Variables and the Principle of the Common Cause"

Wang, Yafeng (Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

"Values, Disagreements, and Psychiatric Classification"

Ma, Yue (Graduate Student, Peking University)

"Foundation and Humean Laws of Nature"

Chen, Zesheng (Graduate Student, University of California, Irvine)

"Justification by Confluence"

Cai, Weixin (Graduate Student, University of California, San Diego)

"Simplicity as a Secondary Ultimate Cognitive Value for Non-Ideal Epistemic Agents"

Zhou, Minxuan (Graduate Student, Peking University)

"Normative Foundations and Implementation Paths of Contextualized Scientific Objectivity"

Yang, Jia (Graduate Student, Peking University)

"Methodological Challenges in Consciousness Concept Research"

Jiang, Zixun & Su, Wuji (Graduate Students, Fudan University)

"Active Reasoning: An Action-Based Solution to the Raven Paradox"

Chen, Kunmin (Graduate Student, Australian National University)

"Truth and Fitness: Why Moral Beliefs are Vulnerable to Evolutionary Debunking Arguments"

Ju, Daheng & Song, Shuhao (Graduate Students, Fudan University)

"Set Realism and Basic Axioms"

Lin, Jiahan (Graduate Student, Peking University)

"On the Rationale of Phenomenal Consciousness: Phenomenal Object and Conscious Intervention"

Lei, Muchun (Graduate Student, Renmin University of China)

"'Seeing Causation"

Ma, Shuqin (Graduate Student, Fudan University)

"Virtual Avatars, Real Harm"

Wang, Jidong (Graduate Student, Fudan University)

"Solving the Partition Problem: Signaling Games and Perception"

Zhou, Peng (Graduate Student, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

"Can a posteriori Physicalists Embrace the Dual Carving Thesis?"

Wang, Yuxuan (Graduate Student, Renmin University of China)

"Artificial Intelligence from the Perspective of Scientific Explanation: Why Should We Still Ask What Intelligence Is?"

Chen, Yisen (Postdoctoral Researcher, Sichuan University)

"The Indispensability of Representation to Machine Learning"

Zhan, Xinyi (Graduate Student, Peking University)

"Non-Content Memory in the Formation of Personal Identity"

Liu, Lin (Graduate Student, Peking University)

"Use without Caring about Your Body"

Wang, Kangqiao (Graduate Student, Tsinghua University)

"The General Form(s) of Hamilton's Rule and the Regression Model(s) of Social Evolution"

Cheng, Zhixiang (Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

"The Statisticalist-Causalist Debate Revisited: Historical Dimensions, Model-Centered Approach, and the Difference between Natural Selection and Drift"

Jiang, Yihan (Graduate Student, University of Leeds)

"Reconciling Process and Structure: Towards a Process-based Ontic Structural Realism"

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