PhD dissertation
“Meaning Takes Time to Unfold: Towards a Heideggerian Ontology of Temporal Differentiation,” defended July 21, 2021.
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Peer-reviewed articles
“On the Autonomy of the Transcendental Time-Horizon: An Essay in De-Subjectivizing Heidegger’s Kant-Interpretation.” Sophia, 2023, online advance. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-023-00952-5
“Hasting versus Waiting: Assessing the Problem of ‘Competition’ between Phenomenology and Modern Technoscience from a Temporal Perspective” (in Chinese). Journal of Dialectics of Nature (自然辩证法通讯) (2023 forthcoming).
“Explaining It Away? On the Enigma of Time in Husserl’s Phenomenology of Time-Consciousness”. Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 36.2 (2022):277-289. https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.36.2.0277
“Three Interpretations of Freedom in Sartre’s Being and Nothingness”. The Humanistic Psychologist, 50.2 (2022): 179-198. https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000226
“The ‘Magical World’ of Emotions and Its Triumph: on the Ontological Inconsistency in Sartre’s Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions”. Sophia, 59 (2020): 333-343. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-020-00775-8
“Sartre’s Godless Theology: Dualist Monism and Its Temporal Dimensions”. Open Theology, 5.1 (2019): 182-197. https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2019-0017
“From the Permanent Presence of Reality to the Ever-recalling of Technology: An Ontological Inference from Philosophy of Technology” (in Chinese). Tsinghua Studies in Western Philosophy (清华西方哲学研究), 2.2 (2016): 425-437. https://kns.cnki.net/kcms/detail/detail.aspx?dbcode=CCJD&dbname=CCJDLAST2&filename=QXZJ201602024
“Two Types of Dignity and Their Role in International Human Rights.” FICHL Policy Brief, 68 (2016): 1-4. https://www.toaep.org/pbs-pdf/68-liu
The Sole-Eye Corresponding with God: Assessing Don Ihde’s Argument for Galileo’s Telescope” (in Chinese). Science & Culture Review (科学文化评论), 6 (2014): 44-56. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1672-6804.2014.06.004
“The Appropriation of Contingency in Modern Science and Its Relations to the Christian Doctrine of Creation: A Review and Modification of Michael Foster’s Thesis” (in Chinese). Science & Culture Review (科学文化评论), 3 (2014): 21-31. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1672-6804.2014.03.002
Invited articles
“Finite Temporalities in Kierkegaard’s Account of Romantic and Conjugal Love”. Academia Letters (2021), 3009. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL3009
Book reviews
“Review of Rueda, D. G. (2021), Forms of Life and Subjectivity: Rethinking Sartre’s Philosophy.” Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 53.2 (2022): 219-224. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-20221406
“Review of di Giovanni, G. (2021), Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza: A Study in German Idealism, 1801-1831.” Idealistic Studies, 52.2 (2022): 201-207. https://doi.org/10.5840/idstudies2022522141
“Review of Chouraqui, F. (2013), Ambiguity and the Absolute: Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the Question of Truth.” Ithaque, 24 (2019): 135-139. https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/handle/1866/22047
“A Historiographical Banquet of the Scientific Revolution: A Review of H. Floris Cohen’s The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry” (in Chinese). Science & Culture Review (科学文化评论), 2 (2013): 111-123. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1672-6804.2013.02.009
Conference presentations
Toronto,
May 30, 2023
“Transcendence of Life and Immanence of Death: On the Compatibility of the Two Dimensions of Heidegger’s Conception of ‘Finitization.’” The Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture Annual Conference
Chengdu,
Dec 11, 2022
“How to meaningfully wait? Time as productive resistance and its relation to the finitude of Being.” The Chinese Joint Societies for Historical and Contemporary Western Philosophy Annual Conference
Presentation video (in Chinese)
Chengdu,
Nov 24, 2022
“Rethinking subjectivity according to the finitude of Being.” 10th Global Young Scholars Symposium, Sichuan University
Presentation video (in Chinese)
Beijing,
Nov 13, 2022
“On fallibility, fundamental concealment, and the retroactive temporality of truth.” Veritas et Praxis: Symposium Philosophiae et Theologiae II
Presentation video (in Chinese)
Los Angeles,
Oct 21, 2022
“ ‘The sorrow of finitude’ and the courage of mourning.” The Society for Ricœur Studies 16th Annual Conference
Presentation video
Beijing,
Aug 27, 2022
“On the notions of ‘immanence’ and ‘simultaneity’.” Tsinghua Workshop on Zhe Liu’s book Generating Subjectivity: Merleau-Ponty and Idealism
Online,
Apr 9, 2022
“The revival of subjectivity: Towards the overcoming of ontological monism.” The 3rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association for the Continental Tradition
Presentation video
Online,
Nov 20, 2021
“Seeing the excess in plurality? A critical assessment of Vioulac’s eschatology of (Western) truth.” The 7th Annual International Conference of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa
Online,
Oct 30, 2021
“ ‘A synthesis whose totality is inconceivable’: Sartre on corporeal affectivity and the leaky polytheism of the interpersonal world.” The North American Sartre Society 26th Annual Conference
Online,
Oct 8, 2021
“Narrated time and the embedded self: On the significance of finite and collective mediation for Ricœur.” The Society for Ricœur Studies 15th Annual Conference
Presentation video
Online,
Sept 24, 2021
“Explaining it away?: On the enigma of time in Husserl’s phenomenology of time-consciousness.” The 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Presentation video
Online,
Apr 9, 2021
“Temporality in Heidegger’s interpretation of Kant’s ‘transcendental time-determination’.” The 2nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association for the Continental Tradition
Online,
Oct 9, 2020
“The origin of the cosmological surplus of time: On Ricœur’s encounter with Heidegger’s ‘derivation’ of ordinary time.” The Society for Ricœur Studies 14th Annual Conference
Presentation video
Montréal,
Dec 6, 2019
“Husserl’s disconnection of presence from the strict present.” McGill Philosophy Workshop Series
Montréal,
Oct 11, 2019
“Does aporia entail dichotomy? Reassessing Ricœur’s critique of Husserl’s phenomenology of time.” The Society for Ricœur Studies 13th Annual Conference
Vienna,
Sept 18, 2019
“The transformational model of authenticity: Towards the grand hermeneutic circle in Being and Time.” Deutsche Gesellschaft für Phänomenologische Forschung Biennial Conference
Venice,
Jul 3, 2019
“The finitude of finitude: An examination of Edith Stein’s critique of early Heidegger.” Summer School of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy
Vancouver,
Jun 5, 2019
“The transformational model of authenticity: On the order of primacy between authenticity and inauthenticity in Being and Time.” The Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture Annual Conference
St. John’s, NL, Canada,
May 24, 2019
“The discovery of the ‘null basis’: The notion of authenticity from Brentano through Husserl to Heidegger.” The North American Society for Early Phenomenology Annual Conference
Rochester, NY,
May 19, 2019
“The fateful releasement into world-time: On the temporality of freedom in Heidegger, 1927-1937.” The 53rd Annual Heidegger Circle Conference
Toronto,
Apr 26, 2019
“The ‘magical world’ of emotions and its triumph: A thematic comparison between Sartre and Heidegger.” The 11th York Philosophy Graduate Conference
Montréal,
Mar 29, 2019
“How to go on from a traumatic past: Ricœur on the temporality of vengeance, justice and forgiveness.” The Concordia Graduate Philosophy Student Association Annual Conference
Montréal,
Mar 28, 2019
“Heidegger on the ground of truth and its temporal dimensions.” The Université de Montréal Graduate Philosophy Conference
Oxford,
Mar 1, 2019
“Sartre’s dualist monism and its temporal dimensions.” Figuring Existence: A Postgraduate Conference in Existential Analysis, The University of Oxford
Chicago,
Feb 16, 2019
“Between repetition and renewal: Varieties of duration in Alia Al-Saji’s critical phenomenology of race.” The Northwestern University Graduate Conference in Critical Theory
Los Angeles,
Nov 3, 2018
“How far can it go when justice ‘overcomes’ vengeance?” The Society for Ricœur Studies 12th Annual Conference
Xichang,
Aug 11, 2016
“From the permanent presence of reality to the ever-recalling of technology: An ontological inference from philosophy of technology” (in Chinese). Chinese Society for Phenomenological Philosophy of Science and Technology 10th Annual Conference
Beijing,
Nov 21, 2015
“Saving infinity: Newton’s modification of mechanism in the idea of absolute space” (in Chinese). 6th Beijing Academic Symposium of Graduate Students in History & Philosophy of Science
Beijing,
Nov 30, 2014
“The sole-eye corresponding with God: Assessing Don Ihde’s argument for Galileo’s telescope” (in Chinese). 5th Beijing Academic Symposium of Graduate Students in History & Philosophy of Science
Invited Talks
Beijing,
Mar 11, 2023
“From Foundation to Finite Locality: Heideggerian Subjectivity between Subjectivism and Impersonalism.” Tsinghua Western Philosophy and Logic Colloquium
Beijing,
Mar 8, 2023
“Prolegomena to Any Future Intellectual History.” Tsinghua Colloquium in the History and Philosophy of Science
Beijing,
Mar 1, 2023
“Incarnation, or, the Absolute’s Need for a Singular Site: Between the Later Fichte and the Later Heidegger.” Tsinghua Workshop in Continental Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion
Beijing,
Dec 24, 2022
“Pantheism, Freedom, and Differentiation: A Comparison between Fichte and Schelling.” Tsinghua Xue-Tang Philosophical Text Workshop
Beijing,
Sept 28, 2022
“Is mathematization necessarily technologization? Rethinking the problem of ‘transparency’ of Galileo’s telescope.” Tsinghua Colloquium in the History and Philosophy of Science
Beijing,
Aug 31-Sept 1, 2022
“The work of art as a site of particularization.” Tsinghua Colloquium on Heidegger’s The Origin of the Work of Art
Beijing,
Mar 3, 2022
“The enigma of time and the finitude of being.” Tsinghua Colloquium in the History and Philosophy of Science
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