Liu Chang

Professor

Phenomenology; Philosophy of Mind; Metaphysics; Cognitive Science

E-mail：

timeasker@yahoo.com; changliuphd@fudan.edu.cn

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Research Areas

Phenomenology; Philosophy of Mind; Metaphysics; Cognitive Science

Honors

Here is the English translation of your list of honors and awards:

1 2024 – Dallas Willard Research Award, awarded by the Dallas Willard Research Center.

2 September 2016 – September 2020 – CSC Scholarship for National High-Level University Graduate Program, awarded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC).

3 2016 – Outstanding Graduate of Master’s Degree Programs, awarded by Beijing Municipal Commission of Education.

4 2016 – Outstanding Graduate of 2016, awarded by Beijing Normal University.

5 2016 – Outstanding Master's Thesis, awarded by the School of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University.

6 2016 – First Prize of the Chongxue Essay Award, awarded by the School of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University.

Grants

Project Title: “Hyle and Intentionality—From Husserlian Phenomenology to Contemporary Philosophy of Consciousness”

- Grant Type: General Project, Post-Funded National Social Science Fund

- Project Number: 23FZXB069

- Start Date: November 14, 2023

Research Areas

Phenomenology; Philosophy of Mind; Metaphysics; Cognitive Science

Honors

Here is the English translation of your list of honors and awards:

1 2024 – Dallas Willard Research Award, awarded by the Dallas Willard Research Center.

2 September 2016 – September 2020 – CSC Scholarship for National High-Level University Graduate Program, awarded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC).

3 2016 – Outstanding Graduate of Master’s Degree Programs, awarded by Beijing Municipal Commission of Education.

4 2016 – Outstanding Graduate of 2016, awarded by Beijing Normal University.

5 2016 – Outstanding Master's Thesis, awarded by the School of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University.

6 2016 – First Prize of the Chongxue Essay Award, awarded by the School of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University.

Grants

Project Title: “Hyle and Intentionality—From Husserlian Phenomenology to Contemporary Philosophy of Consciousness”

- Grant Type: General Project, Post-Funded National Social Science Fund

- Project Number: 23FZXB069

- Start Date: November 14, 2023

Research Areas

Conferences and Reports

1 April 5, 2017 – Husserl Archives, University of Freiburg – PhD Forum
Presentation: Prinzipien der Auffassung bei Husserl (On Husserl’s Principles of Constitution)

2 February 20, 2018 – Husserl Archives, University of Freiburg – PhD Forum
Presentation: Thematisierung der temporalen Auffassung (The Thematisation of Temporal Constitution)

3 October 10, 2019 – Hunan University – Youth Forum on Hermeneutics and Phenomenology & Academic Roundtable at Yuelu Academy
Presentation: Husserl and Representationalism: A Reconsideration

4 October 18–21, 2019 – China University of Political Science and Law – International Conference on “Demystifying the Given”
Presentation: Husserl and Representationalism: A Reconsideration

5 October 26–27, 2019 – Zhejiang University – 24th Annual Chinese Phenomenology Conference and International Conference on Phenomenology
Presentation: Husserl and Representationalism: A Reconsideration

6 October 23–26, 2020 – East China Normal University – Youth Scholar Forum on “The World-System of Literature”
Presentation: Husserl’s Foundation of the Human Sciences

7 November 7–8, 2020 – Sun Yat-sen University – Annual Conference of the Chinese Society for the History of Foreign Philosophy
Presentation: Husserl’s Lawless Monism

8 June 19–20, 2021 – Hunan University – “Phenomenology and Hermeneutics Workshop”
Presentation: Reason and Motivation: Husserl’s Defense of Explanatory Pluralism

9 September 24, 2021 – University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Philosophy of Science and Technology
Invited Lecture: Reason and Motivation: Husserl and the Pluralism of Scientific Explanation

10 October 16–17, 2021 – Shandong University – 3rd National Youth Phenomenology Forum
Presentation: The Absolute Flow and Temporal Constitution

11 October 30–31, 2021 – Zhejiang University – Frontiers in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind Conference
Presentation: Construction: A Shared Framework for Phenomenology and Emotion Psychology

12 March 21, 2022 – Zhejiang University – Lecture Event: Dan Zahavi: Empathy, Alterity, Morality
Invited Commentator

13 May 14–15, 2022 – Sun Yat-sen University – Symposium on Phenomenology and the Pittsburgh School
Presentation: Back to Aristotle: A Shared Motif of McDowell and Husserl

14 August 5, 2022 – Xi’an Jiaotong University – Online Reading Group: “The Opening of Husserl’s Ideas I”
Presentation: Misunderstandings of Naturalism

15 August 27, 2022 – Tsinghua University – Symposium on Becoming Subjectivity
Invited Speaker

16 October 31, 2022 – Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai)
Invited Lecture: Neural Networks and Strong Artificial Intelligence

17 March 24, 2023 – Department of Philosophy, Zhejiang University
Invited Lecture: Eidetic Variation as a Source of Metaphysical Knowledge

18 June 8, 2023 – Yuelu Academy, Hunan University
Invited Lecture: Roman Ingarden’s Concept of Essence

19 June 16, 2023 – Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University
Invited Lecture: The Concept of Essence in Phenomenological Ontology

20 August 19–20, 2023 – Guizhou University – 27th Annual Chinese Phenomenology Conference
Presentation: Husserl’s Theory of Phenomenal Intentionality

21 November 24–26, 2023 – Chinese University of Hong Kong – International Conference on “Phenomenality and Intentionality”
Invited Presentation: How the Phenomenal Determines the Intentional: A Husserlian Approach

22 December 22, 2023 – Department of Philosophy, Zhejiang University – Analytic Philosophy Workshop
Invited Presentation: Chalmers on Color Perception

23 May 23, 2024 – Department of Philosophy, Zhejiang University – International Workshop on Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind
Invited Presentation: Comments on Individual Bias

24 August 1–8, 2024 – Sapienza University of Rome – World Congress of Philosophy 2024
Invited Panel Presentation: How the Phenomenal Determines the Intentional: A Husserlian Approach

25 October 19–20, 2024 – Shandong University (Jinan) – 14th National Conference on Analytic Philosophy
Invited Section Presentation: Two Roots of Philosophy

26 January 10–11, 2025 – Chinese University of Hong Kong – Conference on Phenomenology and Consciousness
Presentation: Integrated Information Theory and the Material Quality of Consciousness

Teaching Experience

Undergraduate: History of Western Philosophy; Selected Readings in Phenomenology; Contemporary German Philosophy

Graduate: Introduction to Phenomenology; Issues in Western Philosophy; Trends and Commentaries in Philosophy; Seminar on Phenomenology

Working Papers

1 Phenomenologyof Video'Games:A Praise fortheNinth'Arr (Single'author, underrevision)

2 Integrated Information' Theory' and the Material Quality of Consciousness (Single author, underreview)

3 Two Roots of- Philosophy: Meta-Philosophical Considerations fromPhenomenologicarand EnactivePerspectives(Single author, underreview)

4 How the Phenomenal Determines the Intentional: A Husserlian Approach (Single author, underreview)

5 Patterns of Ontological Architecture: Roman Ingarden's Non-Entity View of Essence(Single author,underreview)

6 Artificial Neural Network and Strong AI: An Argument from Architecture(First-author, co- authored with-Professor Bin-Ye, Sun-Yat-sen-University, Zhuhai; under-review)

7 Mental Construction: A Shared Framework in Emotion Psychology and Husserlian Phenomenology (First author, co-authored' with Professor Bin Ye, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai;under review)

8 Mereology Intentionality and Cause: Three' Reflections on the Assumptions of the Network- Theoryon- Mental-Disonders(First-author, co-authored with Professor-Bin Ye, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai;underreview)

Publications

1. 刘畅，“从现象学论扎根科学的哲学”. 《中国社会科学报》，2025-01-15. 从现象学论扎根科学的哲学-中国社会科学网

2. Liu, C. (2024). Husserl, representationalism, and the theory of phenomenal intentionality. European Journal of Philosophy, 32(1), 67–84.

3. 刘畅. “回到亚里士多德：麦克道尔和胡塞尔的一项共同母题”.《中国现象学与哲学评论》, 2023(02): 页130–152.

4. 刘畅.“胡塞尔与表征论：一个重审”.《现代哲学》, 2023(03):页26–32.

5. Liu, C. (2023). Eidetic variation as a source of metaphysical knowledges: a phenomenological contribution to neo-Aristotelian metaphysics. Res Philosophica. Vol. 100(3), pp. 1–28. DOI: 10.5840/resphilosophica20236899.

6. 刘畅.“原因与动机——胡塞尔对解释多元论的论证”.《哲学研究》, 2023(05):页106–116.

7. Liu, C. (2023). Husserl’s Dual Aspect Framework of Mind and the Rejection of Common Ground Mentality. Husserl Studies. Vol. 39, pp. 1–24.

8. Liu, C. (2023). Der absolute Fluss und die temporale Auffassung: Ein Rekonstruktionsversuch zur Husserlschen Phänomenologie des Zeitbewusstseins. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie. Vol. 2022(3), pp. 457–492. DOI: 10.2143/TVF.84.3.3291501.

9. Liu, C. (2022). Anomalous Monism and the Mental Causation: A Husserlian Reflection. The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. Vol. 54, pp. 30–55.

10. 刘畅. “由‘质料’引入生命——评王嘉新《生命现象学视角下的胡塞尔‘质料’概念》”. 《科学·经济·社会》，2022 (05) , 页122–128.