Date of birth：October, 1988

E-mail: yuchenguo17@gmail.com

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Action (esp. imagination and pretense)

Philosophy of Art (esp. fiction); Philosophy of Theater (esp. acting)

 

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Philosophy of Psychology

Moral Psychology and Metaethics

 

EMPLOYMENT

School of Philosophy and Sociology, Lanzhou University, Research Professor, 2021 – present

 

EDUCATION

Sorbonne University, 2015 – 2020, Ph.D. in Philosophy
Dissertation: The concept of desire-like imagination and its applications

Committee: Anouk Barberousse (chair), Jean-Baptiste Rauzy (supervisor), Carola Barbero, Jérôme Dokic, Jérôme Pelletier.

Paris-Sorbonne University and Pantheon-Sorbonne University, 2013 – 2015,
M.A. in LoPhiSC (Logique, Philosophie des sciences et Philosophie de la connaissance)

 

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

- Real objects in fictional situations: an argument for i-desires as indispensable states, Manuscrito 41 (2), 29-52, (2018).

- Becoming Romeo, Philsophical Papers 49(3): 365-396, 2020,

- Revisiting the Problem of Satisfaction Conditions and the Indispensability of I-Desire, Filosofia Unisinos 21 (3): 251-259, (2020).

- Imagination, desire and irrationality: a defense of i-desire account. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29 (1): 77-89, (2021).

- What is Acting? The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 80(1):58-69, (2022).

- The Esthetics of Cosplay, Fashion Theory, (2022). DOI: 10.1080/1362704X.2022.2065783.

- Onstage emotion as Imagination, The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 56 (4): 29-46 (2022)

• Actor Dual-consciousness and Recreative Imagination, Filosofia Unisinos: Unisinos Journal of Philosophy, Forthcoming.

Public writing

• Experience-taking and I-states,  The Junkyard, A scholarly blog, June, 2019, https://junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2019/6/9/experience-taking-and-i-states

In progress

Acting and Pretense

Acting as process

Unarticulated Constituents of Fictional Propositions