Employment
2012- Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai.
2017-2018VisitingScholar,TheCityUniversityofNewYork,GraduateCenter,New York.
2010–2011 Visiting Student, Harvard University, Boston.
2009-2016 Summer School in Logic, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 2008–2012 Ph. D. student, Philosophy, Logic, Peking University, Beijing.
Advisor: Liu Zhuanghu
2010–2011 Visiting PhD student, Harvard University, Boston.
funded by China Scholarship Council
2005–2008 Master of Philosophy, Logic, Fudan University, Shanghai.
Advisor: Hao Zhaokuan
2001–2005 Bachelor of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai.
Spring 2018 Set Theory II, Fudan University.
Forcing and some applications
http://logic.fudan.edu.cn/courses
Spring 2018 Modal Logic, Fudan University.
The meta-theory of modal logic, applications of modal logic
http://logic.fudan.edu.cn/courses
Spring 2016 Set Theory II, Fudan University.
Constructibleuniverse,ordinaldefinablesets,forcingargumentandsomeapplication
http://logic.fudan.edu.cn/courses
Fall 2015 Set Theory, Fudan University.
Axioms, ordinals, cardinals, large cardinals, definable sets of real numbers
Fall 2015 Computability theory, Fudan University.
Turing machine, reducibility and degrees, Post’s problem and his approach, priority method
Spring 2015 Mathematical Logic II, Fudan University.
Computability,structuresandtheoriesofarithmetic,Gödel’sincompletenesstheorems
Spring 2015 Proof Theory, Fudan University.
Gentzen’s natural deduction system, cut elimination, ordinal analysis
Fall 2014 Mathematical Logic I, Fudan University.
Formal language, deduction, semantics, and completeness
Fall 2014 Computability and Randomness, Fudan University.
Definabilityofsetsofnumbers,complexityofstringsofnumbers,Martin-Löfran- domness,martingales
May 2018Alternative set-theoretic foundations of mathematics, Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities, Duyun.
2018 Chinese MathematicalLogicConference http://logic2018.sgmtu.edu.cn/
March 2018 Some Reducts of the Models of Set Theory, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
VCU Analysis, Logic and Physics Seminar
Dec2017Onunaryunion,TheCityUniversityofNewYork(GraduateCenter),New York.
CUNY Set Theory Seminar
Oct 2016 On Woodin’s program, Nanjing University, Nanjing.
∆4LogicWorkshop http://ims.nju.edu.cn/~yuliang/delta4/delta4.html
Dec 2015 Frege on mathematical definition, Fudan University, Shanghai.
2015philosophyofmathematicscolloquiumandthesecondphenomenologyand philosophy of mathematicscolloquium
http://logic.fudan.edu.cn/2015PhiMath
Dec2015HowtobeaPlatonistinmathematics,ZhejiangUniversity,Hangzhou.
Xixi logic forum
http://www.xixilogic.org/?p=1323
Dec2014 Onthepovertyofthemethodsofconceptanalysis,RenmingUniversity of China,Beijing.
2014 phenomenology and philosophy of mathematics colloquium
Aug2014Mathematicallogicasananalyticphilosophy,SouthwestUniversityof China,Chongqing.
The 9th conference of analytic philosophy: language and logic
Apr2014Mathematicallogicasastyleofphilosophy,NankaiUniversity,Tianjin.
2014 Nankai mathematical logic colloquium
Dec 2013 On the relativity of mathematical truth, Peking University, Beijing.
2013 philosophy of mathematics colloquium
Sep2013 On absoluteness of mathematical truth, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou.
The 13th Asian logic conference
http://logic.sysu.edu.cn/alc2013/
Jun 2013 What about the next order?, Fudan University, Shanghai.
Workshop on metamathematics and metaphysics
http://logic.fudan.edu.cn/pastevents/2013/MetaMetaWorkshop
Nov2012 Issecond-orderrealismtenable?,EastChinaUniversityofPoliticalScience and Law,Shanghai.
The Fourth Shanghai Young Scholar Forum for Logic
Nov 2012 Is multiverse view illusory?, Fudan University, Shanghai.
2012 Modern Logic Conference of China
Jun 2012 Gödel’s work on constructivistic mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai.
Workshop on the philosophy of Gödel’s and the philosophy of mathematics
Dec 2011 Set Theory Multiverse View, Beijing Normal University, Beijing.
2011 Frontier Forum for Social Sciences
Sep 2011 The Philosophy of Set Theory, Peking University, Beijing.
Graduate Seminar
May 2010 Frege’s Program, Hilbert’s Program, and Gödel’s Program, Beijing Normal University, Beijing.
PhD Forum of the History of Science and the Philosophy of Science
March 2010 Gödel’s Program and Large Cardinals, Peking University, Beijing.
Graduate Seminar
November 2009 An Introduction to Forcing, Fudan University, Shanghai.
Philosophy Forum for PhD Students from FDU, SYSU, WHU, and PKU
April 2009 Extending Dynamic Logic of Inference, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Workshop in Dynamic Logic
December 2008 Ramified Type Theory and Constructible Sets, Peking University, Beijing.
Graduate Seminar
Publications
Paper (in Chinese) YangRuiZhi. Quine’snaturalismandthe“delogic”processofanalyticphilosophy.
Fudan Journal (Social Sciences Edition), 141-148, 2016(5)
Paper Joel D. Hamkins and Ruizhi Yang. Satisfaction is not absolute. submitted
Paper (in Chinese) Yang Rui Zhi. Frege on mathematical definition. Thought and Culture, vol.17, 236-253, 2016
Paper (in Chinese) Yang Rui Zhi. On set theory multiverse view. Studies in Dialectics of Nature, 99-103, 2015(9)
Paper (in Chinese) YangRuiZhi. Mathematicallogicasastyleofanalyticphilosophy.StudiesinLogic, 15-29,2014(4)
Paper (in Chinese)YangRuiZhi. Gödel’sworkonconstructivemathematics.StudiesinLogic,12-30, 2014(3)
Paper YangRuiZhi. A pragmatisticviewonphilosophyofmathematics.StudiesinLogic, 29-56,2012(1)
Paper (in Chinese) YangRuiZhi.KantandGödelontheobjectivityofmathematicaltruth.Philosophical Trends, 75-80, July2009
Translation SaharonShelah.LogicalDream.translatedbyYangRuiZhi,MiXiaofei,andZhang Yongzhi. Studies in the History of Reflection, 5: 3-44,2008.
Book
Monograph (in Chinese) Ruizhi Yang. Mathematical Logic as Philosophy. Fudan Press, 2016.
Monograph (in Chinese) Zhaokuan Hao, Ruizhi Yang and Yue Yang. Mathematical Logic: Proof and its Limitation. Fudan Press, 2014.
Translation Stewart Shapiro. Thinking about Mathematics: the Philosophy of Mathematics. translatedbyHaoZhaokuan,andYangRuiZhi.FudanPress,Chinesetranslation edition,2009.
Doctoral dissertation
title Set Theory Realism and Gödel’s Program: a Positive Philosophy of Mathematics
supervisors Liu Zhuanghu
description Thesettheoryrealismemphasizesontheexistenceofsetsandtheobjectivityof settheorytruths.Gödel’sprogramisbasedonthisphilosophicalstandpoint.The dissertationprovidesanargumentforthesettheoryrealismandGödel’sprogram. Themainstrategyistoarguethatrealismanditsprogramdobettertomathematical practice than other philosophicalideologies.
Rewards
2017 Youth Program, Inner model program and the contemporary philosophy of settheory(17CZX052),TheNationalSocialScienceFundofChina,20,000 CNY.
2013 Humanity and Social Science Youth foundation, The contemporary philosophyofsettheoryanditsimpactontheresearchofthefoundationof mathematics(13YJCZH226),MinistryofEducationofChina,80,000CNY.
2011LeoKoguanScholarship,TheLeoKoguanFoundation,theUnitedStates of America, 12,500CNY.