I am a postdoc at Sichuan University (Chengdu, China) trained in metaphysics and philosophy of science.
I write on naturalised metaphysics, especially the metaphysics of parthood and composition in the physical sciences. I am also interested in what happens on a semantic level when working scientists, textbook writers, science instructors and philosophers try to predicate notions originated in commonsense and analytic metaphysics to posits from the ontology of advanced science (pairs of fermions are "weakly indiscernible", a wave is "part of" another, spacetime is a "mereological sum", etc.).
Other interests include philosophical methods, m…
I am a postdoc at Sichuan University (Chengdu, China) trained in metaphysics and philosophy of science.
I write on naturalised metaphysics, especially the metaphysics of parthood and composition in the physical sciences. I am also interested in what happens on a semantic level when working scientists, textbook writers, science instructors and philosophers try to predicate notions originated in commonsense and analytic metaphysics to posits from the ontology of advanced science (pairs of fermions are "weakly indiscernible", a wave is "part of" another, spacetime is a "mereological sum", etc.).
Other interests include philosophical methods, metametaphysics broadly construed, the scientific realism debate, consequentialism in epistemology, the epistemology of assertion, and the reception of Anglo-American philosophy of science in China and Japan.
Outisde philosophy, I teach academic English and spend too many hours running or trying to make myself more fluent in various languages. With very mixed results.
