Basic Information:
Yu Zhang was born in June 1993 and she is an Assistant Professor of School of Philosophy and Sociology at Jilin University.
Email: yuzhang0608@jlu.edu.cn
Career and Education:
2023-present Assistant Professor, School of Philosophy and Sociology at Jilin University in China
2022-2023 Visiting Research Scholar, Columbia University in the City of New York in the United States
2019-2023 Ph.D., Peking University in China
2016-2019 M. phil., Wuhan University in China
2012-2016 B. phil., Hunan Normal University in China
Research Interest:
Assistant Professor Yu Zhang’s research centers on Philosophy of Mind, Moral Psychology, Metaphysics, Ethics, and Philosophy of Language. Specifically, she is interested in some topics about evaluative judgement, perception, embodied cognition, and emotions; cutting-edge research of philosophy of mind and ethics and AI, neuroscience, cognitive science; weakness of will and the rationality of actions; Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language, etc.
Awards:
·2022 Presidential Scholarship, Peking University
·2022 Excellent Academic Research Award, Peking University
·2021 Second Prize of Scholarship, Peking University
·2021 Excellent Academic Research Award, Peking University
Publications:
Zhang, Y. (2019). Kant’s Deduction of Freedom: From the Practical Freedom to the Transcendental Freedom. Journal of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology (Social Science Edition), 19(2), 22-27.
Zhang, Y. (2021). Some Emotions Play a Reasonable Role in Akratic Actions, not a Rational Role. collections of 6th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities- Philosophy of Being Human as the Core of Interdisciplinary Research, Paris: Atlantis Press, 10-14.
Zhang, Y. (2022). The Debate Between Physicalism and New Dualism: Focusing on Cognitive Neuroscience. Journal of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology (Social Science Edition), 22(3), 14-20.
Zhang, Y. (2023). Rigid Designators and Descriptivism. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 11, 345-354. doi: 10.4236/jss.2023.112022.
Zhang, Y. Forthcoming. The Evaluative Judgment Theories of Emotion and Its Drawbacks. Foreign Philosophy.