Faculty

Wang Wei
Associate Professor
Graeco-Roman philosophy, Aristotle’s theoretical philosophy, history of metaphysics
E-mail:
wangwei_phil@fudan.edu.cn
Contact information:
2614 West Guanghua Tower, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai (hour: appointment via email)
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Personal

Born in October 1985, Dongtai, grew up in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.


Employment

Fudan University, School of Philosophy. Associate Professor, 2021.12-present.

Fudan University, School of Philosophy. Lecturer (t.t.), 2016.12-2021.12.

 

Education

Princeton University. Joint Program in Classical Philosophy. PhD (Classics), 2009-2016.

University of Pensylvania. Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classics, 2008-2009.

Fudan University. BA (Philosophy), 2003-2007.

 


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Publication


Articles

“Aristotle on food, digestion, and animal self-motion”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 62 (summer 2022). 2023.

“Aristotle on motion and causality: two digressional passages in Physics 3”, Zhe Xue Yan Jiu, 2021(08), 99-108.

“Aristotle on animal self-motion and the eternity of the universe”, Fudan Journal (Social Sciences), 2021(04), 45-53.

“The receptacle and ‘great and small’: an investigation into Plato’s ‘unwritten doctrines’”, Fudan Journal (Social Sciences), 2020(05), 55-63.

“Monotheism or Polytheism? Aristotle on unmoved mover”, Zhe Xue Yan Jiu, 2020(02), 96-103.


Monograph

Mover, Frist cause, and necessity: an investigation into Aristotle’s theoretical philosophy, Beijing University Press, 2021.11

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