Yifan LI
Yifan LI
Title
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email
liyifan@ucas.ac.cn
Phone
Biography

Biography: I obtained a PhD degree in philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, in 2025. My doctoral dissertation aims at developing a new approach to the thesis of the unity of science that relies on mechanistic explanation as the main epistemic tool for bridging different sciences. I obtained my MA in philosophy from Columbia University, USA, in 2018, and I obtained my BA in philosophy from Wuhan University, China, in 2016.

Research Interest: My research is on improving our understanding of mechanistic explanation and its role in diverse areas of scientific inquiry. I am also interested in exploring the epistemic continuity and discontinuity between natural sciences and social sciences, in particular the discipline of history.

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