About Me
Philosophy of Science in Practice
I employ conceptual analysis, cognitive ethnography, and quantitative tools to analyze neuroscientific and clinical practices in order to address philosophical questions.
Check out my current projects to know what I am up to now!
Mentoring
My current and past graduate students
Christina Ni 倪汀諾
cni.sh11[@]nycu.edu.tw
Graduate Student, Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Tentative Thesis Title: Philosophy of Psychedelic Transformations
2017, Business of Cannabis Certification, Oaksterdam University, California, USA.
2013, B.A., ADV & Strategic Marketing, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan.
Dr. Min-Jung Cheng 鄭閔中
mjcheng.sh10[@]nycu.edu.tw
2024, M.A., Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Thesis Title: Patient Models and the Biopsychosocial Model in Cancer Care
2021, M.D., School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan.
Yun-Ying Kuo 郭耘吟
yunyingkuo.sh10[@]nycu.edu.tw
Accepted into the Philosophy Ph.D. programs with funding at the University of Cincinnati, University of South Carolina, and University of Western Ontario.
2023, M.A., Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Thesis Title: The Intertwined Relationship of Knowledge and Values in Shared Decision-Making
2020-2021, Pharmacist, National Taiwan University Hospital, Outpatient Pharmacy Services
2020, B.A., Department of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan.
Chuan-Ya Liao 廖釧雅
chuanya1126[@]gmail.com
2021, M.A., Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Thesis Title: Measuring the cross-disciplinarity in the empirically- informed philosophy of mind
2019, B.A., Department of Philosophy, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan.
Hong-Ui Tenn 鄭弘葳
hong5ui7.sh09[@]nycu.edu.tw
Accepted into the Human Media Interaction Ph.D. program at the University of Twente, Netherlands (with funding).
2022, M.A., Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Thesis title: Causal Complexity and Causal Ontology of Health-Related Quality of Life Model
2020, B.S., Department of Child and Family Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan.
Fang-Chi Chang 張芳綺
fun.u4m4[at]gmail.com
Accepted in to World Heritage Studies MA program at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany.
2021, M.A., Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Thesis Title: A Philosophy of Science for Measuring Well-Being: The Case of SIWB
2006-2010, Undergraduate, Department of Philosophy, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan.
Dr. Ling-Chih Hsu 許齡之
lchsu0120[at]gmail.com
2024, M.A., Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Thesis Title: Reasoning of Anesthesia Status under General Anesthesia
M.D., Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University.
Jessica Kao 高倚萱
fish5685[at]hotmail.com
Accepted into the Philosophy Ph.D. program at the University of Western Ontario, Canada (with funding).
2019, M.A., Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan.
Thesis Title: Eliminating the Neuroscienitfic Concept of Consciousness?
2017, B.S., Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan.
Joyce Chen 陳宇貞
joyce_ycc[at]hotmail.com
2019, M.A., Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan.
Thesis Title: Clinical Empathy and First Person Transformative Experience of Illness
B.S., Department of Medical and Nursing Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences.
曾翊晴
ym30532002[at]ym.edu.tw
2018, M.A., Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan.
Thesis Title: Model-Based Reasoning in Cognitive Neuroscience
2016, B.A., Department of Philosophy, Soochow University, Taiwan.
Calvin Yang 楊凱仲
ghkckhg1007[at]gmail.com
2017, M.A., Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan.
Thesis Title: Analyzing Heterogeneity of Depression in the Context of Scientific Explanation
B.S., Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
Sophia Ueng 翁韞
yunn2222[at]gmail.com
Accepted into the Philosophy Ph.D. program at the University of Calgary, Canada and the University of Utah, USA (with funding).
Accepted into the Philosophy MA program at Georgia State University (with funding), Texas Tech University (with funding), Northern Illinois University (with funding), Virginia Tech (on funding waitlist), and San Francisco State University (without funding), USA.
2016, M.A., Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan.
Thesis Title: How Dynamical Models Explain.
2014, B.S., Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan.
Katherine Cheng 鄭婕淩
ccling1989[at]gmail.com
Accepted into the Philosophy Ph.D. program at the University of Miami, USA (with funding) and the University of British Columbia, Canada (with funding).
2016, M.A., the Department of Philosophy at Georgia State University, U.S.A.
Thesis Title: Self-Consciousness, Self-Ascription, and the Mental Self
2014, M.A., Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan.
Thesis Title: An Inquiry to the Lost Self of Demented Patients
Philosophy Outreach
Current and Past Philosophy Outreach Projects
Co-learning philosophy courses among older people from local communities with college students
Co-create pop-philosophy talks among older people from local communities with college students
Empower older people's capacity for philosophical inquiry of various hard questions in life: death, care, identity, and life meaning
Funded by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan.
Funded by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan.
Talks
Public/Online Talks
遛哲學#18–談談什麼是心智哲學
哲學談，淺淺地: 淺談認知神經科學與哲學
哲學談，淺淺地: 照護哲學與歷程自我
照護哲學課程成果分享
Philosophy in the Age of Scientometrics at PhilSci India 2023
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: An Analysis from the Philosophy of Science in Practice (in Chinese)
