I work in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of language. I examine how the psychological interacts with the social. My forthcoming work takes up issues concerning interpersonal disagreement, the normativity of attention, and ideology. 

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Hi! I'm a third-year Ph.D. student born and raised in Chongqing, China. I completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Arizona, studying both philosophy and history. I wrote my undergraduate honors thesis on the philosophy of moral progress and social change under the supervision of Allen Buchanan.

I came to Penn in 2022 from the University of Warwick, where I was an Associate Professor of Philosophy and the co-director of the Center for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy. Previously, I held postdoctoral and visiting positions at Columbia University, Sorbonne University, and the University of Saint-Louis in Brussels. In 2023-2024, I was a Humboldt Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, working on a book project on the critical social philosophy of Frantz Fanon. I will be there again in Spring 2026.

I came to Penn from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where I was an Assistant Professor. My interests are both historical (Kant, as well as 19th-20th centuries) and thematic (issues in ethics, social critique, aesthetics, philosophy of science).

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