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EDUCATION

• DPhil in Philosophy, Balliol College, University of Oxford (2015-2020)
• BPhil in Philosophy, The Queen's College, University of Oxford (2013-2015)
• Bachelor of Laws in Law and Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, National Taiwan University (2006-2011)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Tenure-Track Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica (2022/08-)
• Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy, National Tsing Hua University (08/2021-07/2022)
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, National Tsing Hua University (01/2021-07/2021)
• Non-stipendiary Lecturer, St John’s College, University of Oxford (10/2016-01/2017, 10/2017-01/2018)

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Meta-ethics, Philosophy of Action, Ethics, Rationality and Normativity

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. “Preference Ordering and the Epistemic Peril of Comparison,"

Episteme (forthcoming).

2. “Rational Norms for Degreed Intention (and the Discrepancy between Theoretical and Practical Reason),”

Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2023) 101(2): 360–374.

3. “Intention,” (in Chinese)

The ChineseEncyclopedia of Philosophy (2022).

4. “Misinformation, Subjectivism, and the Rational Criticizability of Desire,”

Philosophical Studies (2021) 178(3): 845-66.

Talks

1. ”Practical Irrationality and Self-Efficacy Belief”

02/2026 2026 Central Division Meeting (Colloquium), American Philosophical Association

09/2025 The 12^th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

07/2025 The 10^th Societé de Philosophie Analytique Congress on Action, Nantes University

2. ”Temporally-Extended Instrumental Rationality and Self-Defeat”

08/2024 Humboldt Normativity Conference 2024, Humboldt University

3. ”Putting Things in Order”

07/2024 The British Society for Ethical Theory Annual Conference, The University of Edinburgh

05/2024 The 2^nd  Annual Workshop on Value Theory, Lund University

12/2023 The 5^th  Taiwan Philosophical Logic Colloquium, National Taiwan University (invited)

4. ”Instrumental Agency and the Pre-conditions of Ends”

04/2024 Annual Laval Agency Conference, Laval University

5. ”Self-Defeat and Means-End Incoherence”

01/2024 The 10^th  Workshop on Normativity and Reasoning, NYU Abu Dhabi (invited)

6. ”Rational Choice Beyond the Comparative Frame”

04/2023 The 30^th  Inter-University Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science, University of Valencia

7. ”Do Reasons Transmit to the Pre-conditions of Reasons?”

04/2023 2023 Pacific Division Meeting (Colloquium), American Philosophical Association

05/2022 Workshop on Reasons, Ought, and Normative Transmission, Humboldt University

8. ”Can Epistemic Defects Provide Practical Defeaters?”

03/2023 Workshop on Knowledge, Rationality, and Defeat, Hiroshima University (invited)

9. ”Distorted Perception and Irrational Evaluation,”

09/2022  Conference on Apprehending Value, PThU Amsterdam

10. “Comparative Judgment and Evaluation”

08/2022 Work-in-Progress Seminar, Academia Sinica (invited)

04/2022 Workshop on Mind and Judgment, National Taiwan University (invited)

11. “Some Rational Problems with Comparative Valuing”

01/2022 2022 Eastern Division Meeting (Colloquium), American Philosophical Association

08/2021 The 14^th Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado

07/2021 The 95^th Joint Session, Aristotelian Society & the Mind Association

04/2021 Faculty Colloquium, National Chung Cheng University (invited)

12. “The Constitutive Norms and Justification for Commitment”

09/2021 Conference on Preferences, Commitments and Choice, University of Zurich

13. “The Internalist Connection between Intention and All-Things-Considered Judgment”

02/2021 Central Division Meeting (Colloquium), American Philosophical Association

14. ”Re-motivating the Internalist Constraint”

11/2020 Workshop on Metaethics and Metaepistemology, University of Vienna

15. “Do We Have a Reason to Do What We Desire to Do?”

11/2020 Faculty Colloquium, Soochow University (invited)

16. “Value and Reason in the Face of Misinformation”

08/2020 Faculty Colloquium, National Tsing Hua University (invited)

17. “In Defense of the Executive Conception of Instrumental Rationality”

03/2020 Slippery Slope Normativity Summit, Inland Norway University

07/2019 The 5^th Annual Southern Normativity Group Conference, Cardiff University

18. “Why Intention Presupposes Mental Unity”

10/2019 Action and Ethics: How, Why, Ought, University of Utah

08/2019 New Horizons in Action and Agency, University of Helsinki

19. “An Analysis of the Structure of Instrumental Irrationality and Executive Vice”

07/2019 The 93^rd Joint Session, Aristotelian Society & the Mind Association, University of Durham

03/2019 Tennessee Value and Agency Conference, University of Tennessee

20. “Subjectivism and Two Kinds of Authenticity”

12/2018 Lake Geneva Graduate Conference, University of Neuchâtel

21. “The Rational Irrelevance of Desire Strength”

11/2018 Ockham Society, University of Oxford

22. “Misinformed Desire and the Foundations of Subjectivism”

03/2018 Connecticut Graduate Conference in Philosophy, University of Connecticut

04/2017 Stockholm Philosophy Graduate Conference, University of Stockholm

23. “Davidson’s Constitutivist Picture of Practical Rationality”

11/2017 Workshop on Donald Davidson's Philosophy, National Taiwan University

24. “Agency, Instrumental Rationality, and the Hierarchy of Desires”

09/2017 Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy, University of Salzburg

25. “How Can Ends Be Rationally Criticized under Instrumental Rationality?”

02/2017 DPhil Seminar, University of Oxford

26. “Instrumental Rationality and the Cognitive Grounding of Desire”

01/2017 Ockham Society, University of Oxford

27. “Two Constraints on Subjectivist Theories of Normative Reason”

07/2016 The 5^th Understanding Value Conference, University of Sheffield

28. “Moral Motivation, Goal, and Background Beliefs”

06/2014 Ockham Society, University of Oxford