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Tipper is ready but he is not strong enough: minimal proposition, question under discussion, and what is said
Published in Philosophical Studies, 2020
Questions under discussion (QUDs) and minimal propositions (if such propositions exist) do not determine what is said.
‘Absolute’ Adjectives in Belief Contexts
Published in Linguistics and Philosophy, 2021
Absolute adjectives (e.g. clean, flat) have loose semantic contents and they have apparent wide-scope and narrow-scope readings when embedded under a belief context.
Interval-based Dynamics of Loose Talk
Published in Synthese, 2023
A compositional semantics for the loose uses of gradable adjectives (e.g. tall) and measure phrases (e.g. 180 cm).
Pragmatic halos meet optimality theory: a simple solution to the strengthening problem
Forthcoming in Linguistics and Philosophy
Combining Lasersohn’s pragmatic halos with optimality-based reasoning yields a viable theory of the loose uses of absolute adjectives.
teaching
Introduction to logic
undergraduate, Texas A&M University, 2009
An introductory logic course covering sentential logic and predicate logic.
Introduction to philosophy
undergraduate, Brown University, 2013
An introduction to philosophy course I taught when I was a PhD student.
Writing philosophy papers
undergraduate, Sun Yat-sen University, 2022
A writing intensive course with weekly reading and writing assignments.
Introduction to analytic philosophy
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?
Philosophy of language
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?
Truth, lies, and fiction
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.