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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.
I am interested in both Chinese philosophy and Western philosophy. I continue my learning of Chinese philosophy on my own. I have attended a weekly online seminar in the Book of Change Yijing 易经 for two years by Sinological Development Charitable Foundation. I joined its 8th Greater China Summer Program in Chinese Studies at Chinese University of Hong Kong during summer 2023. I have taken advantage of 四海为学 online platform to explore different Chinese philosophical thoughts. In addition, I regularly attend the Chinese philosophy reading group in our department.
My current philosophical interests include experimental philosophy, Confucian role ethics, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of social science, and political philosophy. Influenced by my past educational experiences, I enjoy developing my philosophical ideas from an interdisciplinary perspective. In particular, I am interested in theories from sociology (world-system theory), cultural psychology, cognitive science, and international relations (political realism).
I am currently working on my dissertation project. My project aims to make an initial effort to reconstruct the analytic-dialectic research paradigm proposed by Peng Kaiping and Richard Nisbett, which used the comparison between philosophical traditions to illuminate cross-cultural psychological differences. My project draws support from cognitive science, experimental philosophy, comparative or Chinese philosophy, and the philosophy of social science. I am advised by Nora Berenstain (advisor), Judith Carlisle, Mariam Thalos, Yuan Jinmei (Creighton), and Nicholaos Jones (UAH).
In addition to my dissertation project, 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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