Teaching

Graduate students

  • Supervisor: Sabine Winters, PhD. In progress. “The Epistemic Role of Imagination in Space Science.” (Based at Utrecht)
  • Supervisor: Zhuohan Yang, PhD. In progress. AI and mathematical formalization. (Based at Durham).
  • Supervisor: Oliver Rodwell, PhD. In progress. “Structures, Powers, Ethics: the (re)productive circuits of AI knowledge generation.” (Based at York)
  • Supervisor: Faisal Aalkhatib, PhD. In progress. Public trust in AI-driven science. (Based at York)
  • Supervisor: Milly Austin, PhD. In progress. “Identifying Potential Future Psychological Harms in AI Chatbots.” (Based at York)
  • Thesis advisory panel: Joanne Platt. PhD. In progress. (Based at York)
  • Thesis advisory panel: Leonidas Chiotis. PhD. In progress. “Can Artificial Ethical Assistants Enhance Human Decision-Making in Ethics?” (Based at York)
  • Thesis advisory panel: Keir Burrows. PhD. In progress. “Phenomenal Dilemmas in Simulated Realities.” (Based at York)
  • Supervisor: 祐銘 (Vincent Hsu), MA. 2026. “Emerging from the Body: an Ecological and Enactive Framework of Bodily Creativity.” (Based at NYCU)
  • External examiner: Hamid Mirhosseini. PhD. 2025. “Reframing Scientific Representation: A Critique of Denotation and Genre in Representation-As Accounts.” (Based at Salzburg)
  • Internal examiner: Ivan Kyambadde. PhD. 2025. “Replicating cognitive self-sufficiency to realize computational self-sufficiency in Artificial General Intelligence Models.” (Based at York)
  • Supervisor: 王奕然 (I-Jan Wang), MA. 2023. “Simulated Embodiment: Why our bodies and interactions in mental simulation matter.” (Based at NYCU). Now a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati.
  • Supervisor: 權澤 (Scott Lee), MA. 2023. “What Do Philosophers Really Mean When They Talk about Intuition? A Qualitative Study.” (Based at NYCU)
  • Internal examiner: 郭耘吟 (Yun-Ying Kuo). MA. 2023. “The Intertwined Relationship of Knowledge and Values in Shared Decision-Making.” (Based at NYCU). Now a PhD student at University of South Carolina.
  • Internal examiner: 鄭弘葳 (Hong-Ui Tenn). MA. 2022. “Causal Complexity and Causal Ontology of Health-Related Quality of Life Model.” (Based at NYCU). Now a PhD student at the University of Twente.

Courses taught

University of York

  • Topics in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, MA level (2023-4, 2025-6, 2026-7)
  • Philosophy of Science (2023-4, 2025-6)
  • Ethics and Epistemology of Digital Methods in Science (2024-5, 2025-6)
  • Reason and Argument (2025-6)
  • Philosophical Analysis (2024-5)
  • Philosophy and Society (2024-5)
  • Models and Modelling in Science and Technology, MA level (2023-4)

Philosophy in Prisons UK

  • Topics in philosophy (2025-6), 10-week course
  • Topics in philosophy (2024-5), 10-week course
  • Topics in philosophy 2023-4), 5-week course
  • Skepticism (2023)
  • Introduction to philosophy of science (2020-21)
  • Introduction to philosophy via thought experiments (2020-21)

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

  • Realism for realistic people, MA level (2023)
  • Philosophy for Scientists (2023)
  • Epistemology of mental simulation: How we live and learn through memory and imagination, MA level (2022)
  • Reading classics of the humanities and sciences (2022)
  • Metaphilosophy, MA level (2022). Syllabus here.
  • Philosophy of engineering, from biomedicine to space and back, MA level (2022). Syllabus here.
  • Interdisciplinary research methods, MA level (2022)
  • Seminar in Philosophy II (2022)
  • Critical and Creative Thinking (2021, 2022)
  • Scientific Imagination and Creativity, MA level (2021). Syllabus here.
  • Philosophy of Science and Technology (2021). Syllabus here.

University of Tubingen

  • The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, MA level, (2021). Syllabus here.

University of Geneva

  • Topics on Imagination in Contemporary Philosophy (2019-20), MA level. Syllabus here.

London School of Economics and Political Science

  • The Cognitive Science of Populism (part of the “Widening Participation” summer program, August 2018)

University of Toronto

  • Natural Science and Social Issues (2014-2015).
  • Scientific Revolutions I (2013-2014)

University of Toronto (as teaching assistant)

  • Natural Science and Social Issues (2013-2014)
  • Reason and Truth (2013-2014)
  • History of Evolutionary Biology (2013-2014)
  • Symbolic Logic I (2013-2014)
  • Modern Symbolic Logic (2012-2013)
  • Scientific Revolutions II (2012-2013)
  • Introduction to Philosophy (2012-2013)
  • Modern Symbolic Logic (2012-2013)
  • Scientific Revolutions II (2011-2012)
  • Introductory Philosophy of Science (2011-2012)
  • Introduction to Philosophy (2011-2012)
  • Modern Symbolic Logic (2011-2012)
  • Scientific Revolutions I (2010-2011)

York University (as teaching assistant)

  • Introduction to Philosophy (2008-2009)