Biography

After working as a legal practitioner for several years, I decided to pursue philosophy for my interest in philosophical significance. I earned a master of arts degree in philosophy from University of Missouri-St. Louis, and received a doctorate from University of Missouri-Columbia on the topic of decision theory and causal reasoning. Before working full-time as an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIP) in Beijing, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Fudan University in Shanghai, where I began my exploration of the philosophy of causality and causal modeling.

Areas of Specialization

• · Philosophy of Science
• · Causal Modeling
• · Decision Theory
• · Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
• · Formal Epistemology
• · Kantian Ethics 

Publications

1. “Structural Decision Theory” Philosophy of Science (SCI, SSCI, A&HCI) 88(5), 951-960 (2021). 

http://doi.org/10.1086/715189

2. “Mereological Dominance and Simpson’s Paradox” Philosophia (A&HCI) 48, 391-404 (2020).  

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-019-00084-6

3. “Interventionism and Over-Time Causal Analysis in Social Sciences” Philosophy of Social Sciences (SSCI, A&HCI) 52 (1-2), 3-24 (2022)  

https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931211049766

4. “Causal inference and inter‑world laws” Asian Journal of Philosophy, 3 (73) (2024) 

https://doi.org/10.1007/s44204-024-00206-2

5. “Mere Addition Paradox and Simpson’s Reversal” Modern Foreign Philosophy 17, 230-241 (2020).

6. With Linfan ZHU “Casual Exclusion and Causal Bayes Net” Journal of Shandong University of Science and Technology 23(2), (2021).

 http://doi.org/10.16452/j.cnki.sdkjsk.2021.02.001

7. “Decision Theory and Causal Modeling” China Social Science Review (CSSCI) 3, (2021).

8. With Linfan ZHU, Chinese translation, “Why Science needs Philosophy?” Cognitive Science 7(1), (2023).

9. With Xiao-an WU, “Degrees of Causal Contributions and Structural Causal Models: Troubleshooting Sartorio’s Theory” Studies in Dialectics of Nature (CSSCI) 40(3), (2023).

10. “Why the Hard Problem of Consciousness Is a Gulf that Scientific Research Struggles to Bridge” China Science Daily. 2023.10.20, 4, Culture.

Research Projects

“A Methodological Study of Causal Reasoning from the Perspective of Philosophy of Science”, National Social Science Foundation of China 2024.

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