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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.

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Reference Entry

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

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Work in process

Under Review​

"Understanding and its non-factive counterpart: a corpus-based linguistic study of 'understand'" Under review.

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

 

Work in Process​

"The Target and Basis factivity of Understanding"

"Understanding as Pattern-fitting Knowledge"

"Do LLMs have understanding?"

"Medical Misinformation"

"Language and Speech in the Xunzi: What is beyond the Regularity is beyond the Words"

"Ming and Tong in the Xunzi: Understanding the Unified System of Names"​

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

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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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