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Research

Publications

Journal article 

"Understanding as a Type of Knowledge. Evidence from Cantonese and Mandarin." (forthcoming) Asian Journal of Philosophy. Lead article in an Article Symposium, with critics and an author's reply (PDF)

Reference Entry

"Understanding" (forthcoming) The Philosophical Glossary of AI, ed. Alex Grzankowski & Benjamin Henke. (Invited entry) 

Work in process

Under Review

Monica Ding & Jing Hu, "From Junzihood to Sagehood: Evaluating Moral Understanding of Large Language Models" Under review.

"The Gradability of Understanding and its Attribution Standard" Under review.

 

Work in Process

"Understanding as Pattern-fitting Knowledge"

"The Misunderstanding Model of Misinformation" (PPT)

"A Linguistic System is a moral system: LLMs' structural limitation in moral diversity"

"AI Virtue Alignment"

Dissertations

PhD Thesis 

Understanding as Pattern-fitting Knowledge

supervised by Dr Julien Dutant (KCL)

examined by Prof. Alexander Bird (Cambridge) and Prof. Alison Hills (Oxford)

passed without corrections in Oct 2025

MPhil Thesis 

Understanding in the Xunzi and Epistemology

supervised by Prof. Chris Fraser (HKU)

examined by Prof. Herman Cappelen (HKU) and Prof. Christoph Kelp (Glasgow)

passed without corrections in Jan 2021

©2021 by Monica Ding

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