Monica Z. X. Ding

Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, 

Philosophy of AI,
Classical Chinese Philosophy

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, where my research focuses on Chinese philosophy and AI. Before this, I was a Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor, non-tenure-track) at King's College London.

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I earned my PhD from King’s College London under the supervision of Dr Julien Dutant. I passed without corrections in Oct 2025, examined by Prof. Alexander Bird (Cambridge) and Prof. Alison Hills (Oxford). ​​I also obtained a B.A. and an M.Phil. from the University of Hong Kong.​​​​

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My research interests include epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of AI, and classical Chinese philosophy. My work adopts an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together psychology, linguistics, and epistemology, as well as a cross-cultural perspective that engages with both European and Asian languages and with philosophical traditions from East and West. I am currently developing three research streams: the evaluation of AI moral capacities from a classical Chinese philosophical perspective; a misunderstanding model of misinformation; and cross-linguistic investigations of epistemic terms and their philosophical implications. You can find more details about these projects on my Research page.

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