Published in Philosophical Studies, 2020
I argued against about using questions under discussion (QUDs) to repair minimal propositions into what is said.
Published in Linguistics and Philosophy, 2021
I argued that absolute adjectives (e.g. clean, straight) can have semantic contents that are weaker than their maximally precise contents.
Published in Synthese, 2023
I proposed a semantic analysis of the loose uses of gradable adjectives (e.g. tall) and measure phrases (e.g. 180 cm).
undergraduate, Texas A&M University, 2009
An introductory logic course covering sentential logic and predicate logic.
undergraduate, Brown University, 2013
An introduction to philosophy course I taught when I was a PhD student.
undergraduate, Sun Yat-sen University, 2022
A writing intensive course with weekly reading and writing assignments.
undergraduate, Sun Yat-sen University, 2024
This course explores four questions: What exists? Do we know that the external world exists? What are the reasons for and against eating meat? Do we know that we are not living in a computer stimulation?
undergraduate, Sun Yat-sen University, 2024
This course explores the following questions: Can artificial intelligences perform speech acts such as assertion and lying? Do the outputs produced by artificial text generators have meanings? If artificial intelligences lack speaker intention, in what sense do human and artificial intelligences communicate with each other?
undergraduate, Sun Yat-sen University, 2025
A course on deceptive speech and issues about fiction such as fictional truth, emotions towards fiction, imaginative resistance, and fictional reference.