Our epistemology group, led by Tenured Associate Professor Davide Fassio and Tenured Associate Professor Jie Gao, has research interests in epistemology and its intersections with other areas, such as ethics, decision theory, philosophy of mind, linguistics and philosophy of AI. Much of our research has been published in top journals, such as Ethics, Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Philosophical Studies.
We are dedicated to nurturing students with a broad academic perspective and a profound philosophical foundation. We aim to help them become independent researchers equipped with critical thinking and innovative abilities. As a result, many of our past students have successfully received admission offers from internationally renowned institutions, including top universities such as Oxford, the University of Colorado Boulder, and UCL.
Recent News
We are going to host the Asian Epistemology Network Meeting in Hangzhou on Nov 14-15. Link
- Davide Fassio’s article “Counting unknowables” (co-authored with Massimiliano Carrara) is now published by Synthese. Link
- Jie Gao’s monograph “Shifty Epistemology” is now published by CUP. Link
- Davide Fassio’s article “On Danger” is now published by Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Link
- Guowei Lai’s article “In Defense of Pragmatism” is now published by Analytic Philosophy. Link
- Guowei Lai’s article “A New Weighing Model for Interactionist Pragmatism” is now published by Erkenntnis. Link
- Xian He’s article “When is Evidence No Longer Prior?” is now published by Analytic Philosophy. Link
- Three introductory articles are published in the 3rd edition of the Blackwell Companion to Epistemology: “Varieties of Pragmatic Encroachment” (by Jie Gao), “Cross-linguistic Studies in Epistemology” (by Davide Fassio & Jie Gao), “The Knowability Paradox” (by Davide Fassio). Link