Talks

Epistemology and Language 

Nov 2024

“Non-factive understanding: evidence from English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.” UK XPHI Autumn 2024 series seminars

Oct 2023

“Distinctions between Sheer Deference and Firsthand Insight: A Psychological point of View” COGITO/Seville Summer School on the Epistemology of Ernest Sosa. Universidad de Sevilla Sevilla,Spain

Oct 2022

“Understanding and Reasoning,” The Epistemology of Understanding Workshop, The University of Zurich

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Classical Chinese Philosophy

Jan 2025

​“Understanding and the Unified Pattern in the Xunzi” the ACPA session at the 2025 Eastern APA. NY.

Sep 2023
"Regularity (cháng 常) in Xunzi: What is beyond the regularity is beyond words,” Varieties of Ineffability in Ancient Philosophy, Online Conference, Oxford, Toronto and KCL.
Sep 2022
“Understanding in the Xunzi,” BIPPA Conference on the History of Hindu, South-Asian and Chinese Philosophy, KCL
Apr 2019
“The Role of Affective Attitudes in the Mohist Notion of Moral Judgment," Uehiro Philosophy Graduate Conference, The University of Hawaii.

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Presentation at Home Department   

Feb 2025 "The gradability of understanding" Advanced Research Seminar. KCL

Sep 2024 “Sayings are restricted if names are corrected: Xunzi on speech and assertion” Philosophy PGR Conference 2024. KCL

Feb 2024 "Understanding as cognitive satisfaction," Advanced Research Seminar. KCL

May 2023  “A Corpus-based research on the linguistic uses of ‘understand’ in English, Mandarin, and  Cantonese,” Advanced Research Seminar. KCL

Oct 2022 “Understanding and Reasoning,” Advanced Research Seminar. KCL

Sep 2020 "Understanding as Construction," HKU Graduate Seminar Series. HKU