Research Projects

1. (2024-2026), Leibniz's law and abstract objects, funded by NSTC, total sum of grant: NTD 1,519,000

2. (2023-2024), Fichte's transcendental noumenalism, funded by NSTC, total sum of grant: NTD 598,000

3. (2023), Fichte's notion of freedom, subsidy for short-term research abroad at the University of New South Wales, funded by NSTC, total sum of grant: NTD 495,640

4. (2021-2023), Idealism and the constitutive mind, funded by Taiwan's National Council of Science and Technology (NSTC, previously Ministry of Science and Technology/MOST), total sum of grant: NTD 1,060,000

5. (2019-2020), Transcendental idealism in Fichte's late Wissenschaftslehre and its relevance to contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, funded by MOST, total sum of grant: NTD 617,000

Publications

Works in progress

• Journal article

1. "Fichte's account of freedom in the System of Ethics (1798)" (under preparation)

2. "Platner as a partner of dialogue - an interpretation of the Synthesis E" (under preparation)

• Book

1. Fichte's Transcendental Philosophy (monograph, under preparation)

 Journal articles

1. (2023), What Kant should have said about Fichte (but did not), Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 27(2), online first, DOI: 10.5840/epoche2023317225   

2. (2022), Metaphysical idealism revisited, Philosophy Compass, e12856, DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12856

3. (2020), Transcendental idealism and the self-knowledge premise, Journal of Transcendental Philosophy, vol. 1 (1): 19-41, DOI: 10.1515/jtph-2019-0014

4. (2020), The Frege-Geach problem and expressivism, Philosophia, vol. 48(5): 2021-2031, DOI: 10.1007/s11406-020-00194-6 (co-authored with Chi-ho Hung)

5. (2018), Fichte's critique of physicalism - towards an idealist alternative, Inquiry, vol. 62(5): 527-545, DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2018.1484003

Book chapters

1. (2024), Idealismus heute und seine transzendentalen Vorläufer, In Michael Lewin (ed.), Klassische Deutsche Philosophie: Wege in die Zukunft, Brill/mentis.

2. (2023), The relation between reality and negation in Kant, Maimon, and Fichte, In Gregory Moss (ed.), The Being of Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy, Springer. 

3. (2023), Personal meditations as the Foundation of the Foundation: the proper beginning of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre, In Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen and Christoph Asmuth (eds,), Das Problem des Anfangs, Könighausen & Neumann.

4. (2019), Die dreistufige Struktur der Kategoriendeduktion und ihr Sinn in der Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre, In G. P. Basile, M. Kisner, A. Lyssy, M. B. Weiß (eds.), Das Selbst und die Welt - Beiträge zu Kant und der nachkantischen Philosophie (pp. 193-216), Könighausen & Neumann. (in German)

Book review

1. (2018), Review of A Short History of German Philosophy by Vittorio Hösle, Phenomenological Reviews, vol. 4(1), DOI: 10.19079/pr.4.1.56

Translation

1. (2018), Fichte's ideas on God and immortality, Pli, vol. 29: 185-197. (co-translated with Rory Phillips)

Encyclopedia 

1. (2024), Johann Gottlieb Fichte, In Linton Wang (ed.),  the Chinese Encyclopedia of Philosophy (華文哲學百科). (in Chinese)