Employment

      Shanghai Jiao Tong University

          Associate professor, 2017-2019

          Assistant professor, 2013-2017 

      Fudan University 

          Postdoctoral researcher, 2011-2013

Education

     Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 

          Visiting scholar, 2016-2017

Zhe Jiang University

          PhD, Philosophy, 2006-2011

     King’s College London

          Visiting scholar, 2008-2009

     Minzu University of China

          MA, Philosophy, 2002-2006

Publications

Books:

Human Mind and Human Nature: From the Physical Mind to the Evolving Nature, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2024.

Selected Papers:

“Animal Consciousness and the Distribution Problem”, Philosophical Research, 2023

“The Predictive Mind and The Normativity of Interpretation”, Academic Research, 2023

“Is Extended Consciousness Possible?” (with AN Xiu-yuan), Philosophical Analysis, 2022

“The Concept of ‘Prediction’ in ‘the Predictive Mind’”, Fujian Forum, 2021

“Real Becomes Not-Real where the Unreal is Real—— Predictive Proccessing and Mary in VR”, Cognitive Science, 2021

“How to Adopt Adaptationism for Evolutionary Psychology”, Studies in Philosophy of Science and Technology, 2020

“Representationalism Puts the Cart Before the Horse, and the Constructivism Loses by a Neck”, Cognitive Science, 2021

“What Makes Consciousness Uploading and Consciousness Downloading Impossible?”, Science, Economy, Society, 2020

“Evolutionary Psychology and the Meaning of Life”, Modern Foreign Philosophy, 2019

“Interpretive-Sensory Theory as a Matching Model for Self-Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence”, Studies in Dialectics of Nature, 2019

“Belief, Alief and Action”, Zhejiang Academic Journal, 2019