Xian He
Xian He 何弦 received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Zhejiang University. He mainly works in the area of epistemology and ethics. He tries to understand belief, love, and emotion within a unified framework. When not doing philosophy, he spends most of his time reading novels, playing video games, and staying with his family. He is also the builder and maintainer of this website.
His interests in this period:
- belief and reasons for belief
- emotion and reasons for emotion
- emotional and epistemic reliance (attachment) on AI
- social system and social norm
- incommensurability and incomparability
- reasons and fittingness
Biography
2026- Associate Research Fellow (equi. Assistant Professor), South China Normal University
2023-24 Visiting Ph.D. Student, University of Zurich
2021-26 Ph.D. in Philosophy, Zhejiang University
2018-21 M.A. in Philosophy, Sun Yat-Sen University
2014-18 B.A. in Administration, Shandong Normal University
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Publications
- When is Evidence No Longer Prior?. Analytic Philosophy. 2026
- Fitting Love and Uniqueness. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 2025
- 认知规范、认知能力与角色义务 (Epistemic Norm, Epistemic Competence, and Role Obligation). 科学技术哲学研究 (Studies in Philosophy of Science and Technology). 2025.
- 认知理由的实践阈值 (The Practical Threshold of Epistemic Reasons). 外国哲学 (Foreigh Philosophy). Forthcoming.
Works in Progress
- A paper against certain form of pragmatism (under review)
- A paper on the authoritativeness of fitting reasons
- A paper on the comparability between the epistemic and pragmatic
- A paper on the weight of epistemic reasons
- A paper on the mechanism of forming belief
- A review paper on pragmatism in the ethics of the belief
- A paper on the relation between emotion and credence (co-author)
- A paper on the epistemic norm of love (co-author)
