Name: Yingjin Xu
Gender: Male
Nationality: Han Chinese
Date of Birth: 1978
Place of Birth: Shanghai
Title: Distinguished Professor, Doctoral Supervisor
Position: Chief Expert of the National Major Social Science Project Contemporary Epistemology Based on the Philosophy of Information Technology
Email: yjxu@fudan.edu.cn

Education Background

· February 1996 – June 1999: Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Fudan University

· February 1999 – June 2004: Ph.D. in Philosophy, Fudan University (Direct Ph.D. Program)

· July 2002 – June 2003: Graduate Exchange Student, Department of Philosophy, Salesian Pontifical University, Rome, Italy

· August 2007 – May 2008: Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, USA

Work Experience

· September 2004 – September 2007: Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Fudan University

· September 2007 – October 2013: Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University

· September 2013 – Present: Professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University

Academic Appointments

· Deputy Secretary-General, Chinese Society for Epistemology

· Council Member, Chinese Society for Modern Western Philosophy

· Foreign Member, Japanese Society for the Study of Nishida Philosophy

Professor Yingjin Xu's main research interests include the philosophy of artificial intelligence (AI), Anglo-American analytical philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology, and Japanese philosophy. He emphasizes the integration of philosophical arguments with concrete empirical scientific research, reflecting on the ideological premises and methodological foundations of emerging disciplines such as AI. Professor Yingjin Xu has made significant achievements in the philosophy of artificial intelligence, Anglo-American analytical philosophy, and other fields. His representative work, Mind, Language, and Machine: A Dialogue between Wittgensteinian Philosophy and the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, is currently the most comprehensive and in-depth study on the philosophy of AI in China. The national major social science project he leads, Contemporary Epistemology Based on the Philosophy of Information Technology, holds significant importance for advancing research in related fields. Additionally, he has actively published academic papers in important domestic and international journals, contributing numerous valuable viewpoints and research outcomes to the academic community.

Academic Achievements

Representative Books

1. Mind, Language, and Machine: A Dialogue between Wittgensteinian Philosophy and the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, People's Publishing House, October 2013

2. How Can Materialists Speak of Norms: An Interdisciplinary Study from Analytical Metaphysics to the Philosophy of Information Technology, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2017

3. Cognitive Prejudice, Fudan University Press, 2015

4. Contextual Modeling, Fudan University Press, 2015

Representative Papers

1. Kantian Ethics from the Perspective of Cognitive Science (co-authored with Xiaoli Liu), Social Sciences in China, 2017

2. Dramatic Reversals Gettierized and Bayesianized to Defend Aesthetical Cognitivism, Philosophia, forthcoming

3. Why is the Husserlian Notion of 'Intentionality' Needed by Artificial General Intelligence?, Philosophical Forum, 2018

Research Projects

1. October 2016 – October 2021: Contemporary Epistemology Based on the Philosophy of Information Technology (15ZDB020), National Major Social Science Project, Chief Expert

2. October 2015 – October 2018: An Interdisciplinary Study on the Cognitive Mechanisms of Human Reasoning Fallacies: Taking the Conjunction Fallacy as a Typical Case (15013), Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Project, Sole Principal Investigator

3. October 2013 – February 2019: The Intelligent Processing of Natural Language and Philosophical Analysis of Language (13BZX023), National Social Science General Project, Principal Investigator

4. October 2013 – October 2018: Philosophical Issues in Machine Translation (13SG11), Shanghai Shuguang Talent Program, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Principal Investigator

Honors and Awards

1. 2006: Wittgensteinian Philosophy and the Enigma of Phenomenology during His Transitional Period, awarded the National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (First Prize)

2. 2009: Awarded the title of Top Ten Emerging Scholars in Social Sciences in Shanghai (the only recipient from the philosophy community in Shanghai)

3. 2015: Mind, Language, and Machine, awarded the National Science, History, and Philosophy Youth Book Award (First Prize)

4. 2019: Awarded the Zhang Shiying Philosophy Youth Award (First Prize)

5. 2024: Awarded the First Berggruen Paper Prize for the paper Planetary Digital Life from a Confucian Perspective: A Solution Based on Small Dataism

Teaching Experience
Professor Yingjin Xu teaches a variety of courses, including Artificial Intelligence, Language, and Ethics, Artificial Intelligence in a Philosophical Perspective, Artificial Intelligence in the Dimensions of Science and Philosophy History, and Philosophy of Mind. He is also the first instructor at Fudan University to have offered a graduate-level course on 20th-century Japanese philosophy.