Faculty

Wang Ju
Associate Professor
E-mail:
wjphil@fudan.edu.cn
Contact information:
Room 2614, West Main Building, Guanghua Towers, School of Philosophy, Fudan University, No. 220 Handan Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, 200433
Research Areas

Education

2006–2010     Bachelor of Philosophy from the School of Philosophy, Fudan University

2010–2013     Master of Philosophy in Science and Technology, School of Philosophy, Fudan University

2013–2016     PhD in Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh

 

Work Experience

December 2016–Present    Lecturer, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University

   

Academic and Administrative Services

Associate Editor of Modern Foreign Philosophy Magazine

Vice Secretary of the Chinese Society of Epistemology


Research Areas


Research direction and contents

Main research direction: Contemporary epistemology; Skepticism; virtue epistemology 

Research interests: Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Science and Technology


Research projects

(1) Research on Contemporary Anti Skepticism New Trends (Project No. 18PJC015), Shanghai Pujiang Talent Plan

(2) The Disintegration and Reshaping of Infinitism from the Perspective of Knowledge Theory (Project No. 2018EZX002), Youth Project of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project

(3) Research on Rational Humility from the Perspective of Contemporary Moral Knowledge Theory (Project No. 18CG04), Shanghai Morning Light Program 

(4) Philosophical Therapy and Transcendental Argumentation: A Study on the New Trend of Contemporary Anti Skepticism (Project No. 19YJC720028), Philosophy and Social Science Youth Project of the Ministry of Education

(5) Critical Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology (Project No. 2019JCG3016), undergraduate course textbook construction project at Fudan University

 

Main academic works

Representative publications

Monograph:

(1) Wang Ju, Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology, Fudan University Press, September 2022.

(2) Wang Ju, Infinitism and Human Knowledge, Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore, August 2022.


Articles in Chinese:

(1) Wang Ju, Liyun Hui. On the Significance and Limit of the Normative View of Ignorance, World Philosophy, (CSSCI), issue 4th, 2025.

(2) Wang Ju, Standing to Blame: On the Hypocrisy Condition, Social Sciences, (CSSCI), issue 11th, 2024.

(3) Wang Ju, On the Nature and Significance of Epistemic Blame, Philosophical Analysis, (CSSCI), issue 5th, 2024.

(4) Wang Ju, The epistemic value of ignorance, Philosophical Research (CSSCI), Issue 4 th, 2024.

(5) Wang Ju, Understanding Dogmatism, Social Sciences, (CSSCI), issue 6th, 2022.

(6) Wang Ju, Inference Knowledge from Falsehood, Philosophical Research (CSSCI), Issue 10 th, 2020.

(7) Wang Ju, Modest Transcendental Argument and Its Anti Skepticism Import, Philosophical Trends(CSSCI), Issue 7 th, 2020.

(8) Wang Ju, Epistemic Disjunctivism and the New Devil thesisJournal of Dialectics of Nature (CSSCI), Issue 5 th, 2020.

(9) Wang Ju, The Significance and Limitations of Philosophical Skepticism, World Philosophy (CSSCI), Issue 1 st, 2020.

(10) Wang Ju, Intellectual Virtues in Contemporary Virtue Epistemology:

An Analysis of Intellectual Humility, Journal of Xiamen University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) (CSSCI), 2019, Issue 1 st.

(11) Wang Ju, On the Explanationist Reply to Radical Scepticism, Journal of Dialectics of Nature (CSSCI), Issue 3 rd, 2018.

(12) Wang Ju, Infinitism and Agrippa's Trilemmas, Research on Dialectics of Nature (CSSCI), Issue 2 nd, 2018.

(13) Wang Ju, Research on the Compatibility between Infinitism and Strong Inferential Creationism, Journal of Xiamen University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) (CSSCI), 2018, Issue 1 st.

(14) Wang Ju (second author), How to Understand The Sceptical Scenario?, Research on Dialectics of Nature (CSSCI), Issue 6th, 2017.

(15) Wang Ju, Epistemological Disjunctivism, the Entailment Thesis And the Basis Problem, Journal of Dialectics of Nature (CSSCI), Issue 5th, 2016.

(16) Wang Ju, On New Intentionalism, Research on Dialectics of Nature (CSSCI), Issue 3rd, 2013.

 

Articles in English

1Wang, J. (2024). Ignorance: A Philosophical Study, The Philosophical Quarterly 74(3), 1056-1058. (A&HCI) [book review]

2Wang, J. and Wang, C. (2023). Pritchard on Ignorance and Normativity. Asian Journal of Philosophy2(3).

3Wang, J. (2021). Cognitive Enhancement and the Value of Cognitive Achievement, The Journal of Applied Philosophy 38(1), 121-135. (SSCI; A&HCI) 

4Wang, J. (2020). Scepticism, Closure and Rationally Grounded Knowledge: A New Solution, Synthese197(6), 2357-2374. (SCI; SSCI; A&HCI)

5Wang, J. and Yang, X. (2019). Intellectual Humility and Owning One’s Limitations. Fudan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.12(3), 353-369.

6Wang, J. (2018). Review of Epistemic Contextualism: A Defence by Peter Baumann. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 57(4), 902-904.A&HCI

7Wang, J. (2017). Radical Scepticism, How Possible Questions and Modest Transcendental Arguments. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 25, 210-226. (A&HCI)

8Wang, J. (2015). A Davidsonian Response to Radical Scepticism. Logos & Episteme: An International Journal of Epistemology 6, 95-111.

9Wang, J. (2014). Closure and Underdetermination Again. Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 42(4), 1129-1140. (A&HCI)


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Honors and Awards

(1) 2013 National Graduate Scholarship

(2) Outstanding Graduates of Shanghai in 2013

(3) Joint Scholarship between China Scholarship Council and University of Edinburgh, 2013-2016

(4) Selected in the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Plan in 2018

(5) Selected for the Shanghai Morning Light Program in 2018

(6) Third Prize in the 2019 Fudan University Youth Teacher Teaching Competition

 

Taught courses

(1) Undergraduate courses: Introduction to Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Selected Readings of Analytical Philosophy, Introduction to Philosophical Methodology, Foreign Languages in Science and Logic, Philosophy of Life

(2) Graduate Course: Introduction to Dialectics of Nature, Selected Readings of Classic Theory of Knowledge