Personal Information
Born in 1973 in Xichang, Sichuan Province.
Graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Materials Physics from the Department of Materials Science at Fudan University in 1996. In the same year, went to the United States to pursue a Ph.D. in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University.
Made a career shift in 1999, leaving Cornell and transferring to the University of Pittsburgh. Earned an M.A. from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (2002) and a Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy (2010).
Visited the Department of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam, Germany, as a visiting scholar in 2004 and 2005.
Served as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Akron (USA) during the Spring semester of 2011.
Became an Associate Professor at the School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, starting in the Fall semester of 2011.
Appointed as a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University beginning in the Summer semester of 2014.
Has been a Tenured Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua University since the Spring semester of 2018.
Search Interests
Primary Research Areas: Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action.
Additional Research Interests: Modern Western Philosophy (from Descartes to Kant) and Ethics
List of Publications
English Books：
Wittgenstein at 100, co-edited with Martin Stokhof, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. (This is a volume of essays on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of its publication.)
Articles：
“Bodily Self-Knowledge as a Special Form of Perception”
Disputatio. Philosophical Research Bulletin. Vol. 11, Number 20, pp. 71-99, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6944318
“A Meeting of the Conceptual and the Natural: Wittgenstein on Learning a Sensation-Language”
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2014
DOI:10.1111/phpr.12118
“Wittgenstein and the Dualism of the Inner and the Outer”
Synthese, Vol. 191, Issue 14,pp. 3173-3194, 2014
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-014-0441-2
“‘It is not a something, but not a nothing either!’ – McDowell on Wittgenstein”
Synthese, Vol. 191, Issue 3, pp. 557-567, 2014
DOI:10.1007/s11229-013-0291-3
“Transcendental Idealism in Wittgenstein’sTractatus”
Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 61, Issue 244, pp. 598-607, 2011
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9213.2011.697.x
Book Reviews：
Review ofWittgenstein’s Early Philosophy(edited by JoséZalabardo, Oxford, 2012)
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews(22.04.2013);
URL:http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/39322-wittgenstein-s-early-philosophy/
