EDUCATION

Purdue University, Ph.D. (Philosophy) 2021

Simon Fraser University, M.A. (Philosophy) 2013

Nankai University, B.A. (Chinese Language) 2009

Simon Fraser University, B.A.Sc. (Automation Engineering) 2001

 

Areas of Specialization: Metaethics, Metaphysics, Normative Ethics

Areas of Competence: Medieval Philosophy, Applied Ethics (AI, Bioethics), Philosophy of Science

Areas of Teaching Competence: Engineering Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Logic.

 

EMPLOYMENT

Associate Professor, Sch. of Philosophy and Sociology, Lanzhou University June 2022 – Present

Teaching Assistant of Integrated Liberal Arts Program, Purdue University Fall 2020 – May 2021

Instructor/Teaching Assistant of Philosophy, Purdue University Fall 2014 – Spring 2020

Teaching Assistant of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University      2013 – 2014

 

PUBLICATIONS

Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

• “A Platonic Kind-Based Account of Goodness,” Philosophia  49.4 (2021): 1369-1389. (A&HCI)
• “An Ebola-like Microbe and the Limits of Kind-Based Goodness,” Philosophia 50.2(2022): 451-471. (A&HCI)
• “Are Katamenia a First Potentiality or First Actuality of a Human?” Filosofia Unisinos Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming 23.2, May-Aug. 2022): 1-9. (A&HCI)
• “Zabarella on Prime Matter and Extension,”  Philosophia (forthcoming): 1-18. (A&HCI)

 

Replies (Peer-Reviewed)

• “The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Crisis of Moral Passivity,” AI and Society 35.4 (2020): 991-993. (ESCI)
• “Improving the Justice-based Argument for Conducting Human Gene Editing Research to Cure Sickle Cell Disease,” Bioethics 34.2 (2020): 200-202. (SSCI)

 

WORKS IN PROGRESS

• “An Account of Goodness: A Platonic Kind-Based Third Move”
• “The ‘Lifeform Laboratory’ and the Limits of Kind-Based Goodness”
• “AI and Black-Box Medical Decisions: a Tradeoff between Physician Care and AI Power” 

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• 2020 (Covid-19 cancelled). Poster: “The Ignorant Being, Ebola-like Virus, and Other Counterexamples to the Aristotelian Account of Goodness.” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, April.

• 2011. Paper: “Knowing the Odds Against Divine Hiddenness in the Face of Evil?” 9th Annual Northwest Student Philosophy Conference, Western Washington University, May.

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

• PROMISE Award, Purdue College of Liberal Arts, funded research for a paper entitled “Zabarella on Extended Matter”, 2019.
• Graduate School Summer Research Grant; Purdue University, June-July, 2018.
• Eric Clitheroe Prize for Best Essay by a Graduate Student, Dept. of Philosophy, Purdue University Literary Awards, Spring 2017. Awarded for a paper entitled, “Zabarella on Extended Matter”.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor

• Introduction to Philosophy (Purdue University)
• Introduction to Ethics (Purdue University)

Teaching Assistant

• Transformative Texts: Critical Thinking & Communication I—Dante, Shakespeare, Voltaire, and other 14^th-18^th Century English and Western Literature. (Purdue University)
• Ethics for Technologists, Engineers, and Designers (Purdue University)
• Philosophy of Religion (Purdue University)
• Introduction to Logic (Simon Fraser University)
• Introduction to Philosophy of Science (Simon Fraser University)