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I am a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I also pursued my graduate certificate in global studies. Prior to UTK, I obtained my bachelor’s degree in human resources management from Beijing Normal University, China, studied economics as my double major at Peking University, China, studied psychology when I was an exchange student at Maynooth University, Ireland, obtained my master’s degree in human rights from the University of Sydney, Australia, and my second master’s degree in philosophy from Eastern Michigan University.
My research lies in the intersection of Chinese philosophy, cross-cultural psychology, experimental philosophy, and philosophy of cognitive science. It is guided by two central questions: (1) how ancient Chinese philosophy can provisionally articulate culturally transmitted conceptual architectures that shape contemporary laypersons’ practical reasoning; and (2) how culturally transmitted reasoning protocols can inform the construction of a contemporary normative theory that extends beyond historical interpretation of ancient Chinese texts.
I am currently working on my dissertation project to address the first question. I am advised by Nora Berenstain (advisor), Judith Carlisle, Mariam Thalos, Yuan Jinmei (Creighton), and Nicholaos Jones (UAH). In the dissertation, I propose my Different Conceptual Architecture Hypothesis (DCAH), which claims that cross-cultural psychological differences shown in these studies arise from differences in pre-theoretical conceptual architectures that shape laypersons’ practical reasoning. Moreover, I address the second question through the construction of role-based virtue theories from the inadequately explored Confucian text the Dialogues of Confucius 孔子家語 Kongzi Jia Yu.
In addition to my main projects, I also completed my capstone paper for my graduate certificate in global studies. In the paper, I clarify and develop Iris Young's conception of global injustices in her posthumous work Responsibility for Justice, by employing world-system perspective and global value chain research to model global structural processes that (re-)produce global injustices, as defined in the conception.
In the remote past, I have had a passion for learning basics about kinesiology and obtained the Corrective Exercise Specialist Certificate from National Academy of Sports Medicine (2021), if it is still worth mentioning.
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