Profile

Weijia WANG, born in March 1986, graduated from the University of Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) in Belgium in 2018 with a PhD in Philosophy. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of the Philosophy of Art at the School of Philosophy, Fudan University, with research interests in Kant, western aesthetics, and the history of western art.

Career:

2022-present: associate professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University

2018-2022: lecturer, School of Philosophy, Fudan University

Education:

2012-2018: University of Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Belgium, PhD in Philosophy 

2010-2012: University of Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Belgium, Advanced Master in Philosophy

2008-2010: University of York, UK, Master in Philosophy of Art and Literature

2004-2008: Fudan University, China, Bachelor in Philosophy

Selected English Publications

1.    “From Mechanical Inexplicability to a System of Ends: Kant on Organisms as Natural Ends”, in International Journal of Philosophical Studies (A&HCI), Vol. 31, Issue 5, 2024.1, pp. 689-706 

2.    “Kant on the Formation of Empirical Concepts”, in Kant-Studien (A&HCI), Vol. 112, Issue 2, 2021.6, pp. 195-216

3.    “Kant’s Mathematical Sublime: The Absolutely Great in Aesthetic Estimation”, in Kantian Review (A&HCI), Vol. 25, Issue 3, 2020.9, pp. 465-485

4.    “Artistic Proofs: A Kantian Approach to Aesthetics in Mathematics”, in Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics (A&HCI), Vol. 56/12, Issue 2, 2019.9, pp. 223-243

5.    “Beauty as the Symbol of Morality: A Twofold Duty in Kant’s Theory of Taste”, in Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review (A&HCI), Vol. 57, Issue 4, 2018.12, pp. 853-875

6.    “Three Necessities in Kant’s Theory of Taste: Necessary Universality, Necessary Judgement, and Necessary Free Harmony”, in International Philosophical Quarterly (A&HCI), Vol. 58, Issue 3, September 2018, pp. 255-273

7.    “Kant’s Argument for the Principle of Anticipations of Perception”, in Philosophical Forum (A&HCI), Vol. 49, Issue 1, Spring 2018, pp. 61-81

Selected taught courses

History of Western Art

History of Western Aesthetics

Kantian Philosophy

German Idealism

Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment