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12Epistemic Logic with Evidence and Relevant AlternativesIn Hans van Ditmarsch & Gabriel Sandu (eds.), Jaakko Hintikka on Knowledge and Game Theoretical Semantics, Springer. pp. 535-555. 2018.Starting with Jaakko Hintikka’s seminal work, epistemic logic has now grown up to a huge academic industry. When we look back to its history, however, there is a practical paradox. While Hintikka’s original purpose was to facilitate epistemological discussion, most subsequent work of epistemic logic has been done outside of philosophy, and has been ignored by most mainstream epistemologists. At the current point, one might naturally wonder, does epistemic logic still have something to do with ep…Read more
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25Two different approaches to philosophy a critical reflection on contemporary Chinese philosophyAsian Philosophy 28 (3): 197-214. 2018.ABSTRACTBy means of critical reflection on the current situation of Chinese philosophy, this article aims to clarify two different approaches to philosophy. One is for scholars to focus on original texts and thought tradition, concerned with interpretation and inheritance; even in this way, scholars can achieve theoretical innovation through creative interpretation. The other is for researchers to face up questions from academics and from reality, and mainly to do theoretical creation in philoso…Read more
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672Foundational Holism, Substantive Theory of Truth, and A New Philosophy of Logic: Interview with Gila Sher BY Chen BoPhilosophical Forum 50 (1): 3-57. 2019.Gila Sher interviewed by Chen Bo: I. Academic Background and Earlier Research: 1. Sher’s early years. 2. Intellectual influence: Kant, Quine, and Tarski. 3. Origin and main Ideas of The Bounds of Logic. 4. Branching quantifiers and IF logic. 5. Preparation for the next step. II. Foundational Holism and a Post-Quinean Model of Knowledge: 1. General characterization of foundational holism. 2. Circularity, infinite regress, and philosophical arguments. 3. Comparing foundational h…Read more
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59Hume’s Conceivability Arguments ReconsideredAxiomathes 29 (5): 541-559. 2019.This paper examines Hume’s formulations and uses of the conceivability principle and the inconceivability principle. In Hume’s works, we identify different versions of CP and ICP, including proper CP, proper ICP, the weak versions of CP and ICP, the epistemic versions of CP and ICP, and show that Hume not only expresses ICP, but also really maintains it. Assuming an axiomatic characterization of modalities, we argue that if there is a sharp distinction between levels of modalities, then Hume’s c…Read more
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19Russell and Jin Yuelin on Facts: From the Perspective of Comparative PhilosophyPhilosophy East and West 69 (4): 929-950. 2019.Jin Yuelin 金嶽霖 was a Chinese philosopher and logician. From 1914 to 1920 he studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, and received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia in 1920. From 1921 until 1925, he studied in Europe and visited Great Britain, Germany, France, and Italy, among other countries. During these years, he studied at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences and at the University of Cambridge. At the end of 1925, Jin returned to China and…Read more
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48Quine’s Disquotationalism: A Variant of Correspondence TheoryPhilosophical Forum 51 (2): 93-113. 2020.The Philosophical Forum, EarlyView.
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98Justification of Induction: Russell and Jin Yuelin. A Comparative StudyHistory and Philosophy of Logic 33 (4): 353-378. 2012.Jin Yuelin (1895?1984), a Chinese logician and philosopher, is greatly influenced by Hume's and Russell's philosophies. How should we respond to Hume's problem of induction? This is an important clue to understand Jin's whole philosophical career. The first section of this paper gives a brief historical review of Russell and Jin. The second section outlines Hume's skeptical arguments against causality and induction. The third section expounds Russell's justification of induction by discussing hi…Read more
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20Russell and Jin Yuelin on Truth: A Comparative StudyContemporary Chinese Thought 52 (1-2): 43-78. 2021.Jin Yuelin’s logical and philosophical thought was deeply influenced by the philosophy of Bertrand Russell. The same influence existed also in the case of his view on truth, which was considerably close to the views maintained by Russell in his phase of logical atomism. In their investigations, Russell and Jin not only focused on similar topics, but also occupied similar philosophical positions, such as realism in the domain of ontology, empiricism in epistemology, and the correspondence theory …Read more
Renmin University of China
PhD, 1994
Areas of Specialization
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Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of Language |
History of Logic |
Knowledge |
American Pragmatism |
David Hume |
Gottlob Frege |
W. V. O. Quine |
Bertrand Russell |