26-27 April 2025 – Workshop on Philosophy and AI (PHAI) (第二届哲学与人工智能研讨会) at the Venue Berggruen Institute China Center, No. 54 Yannan Garden, Peking University, Beijing

Boris Babic is HKU100 Associate Professor of Data Science, Philosophy, and Law at the University of Hong Kong. He is also one of the principal investigators at the AI and Humanity Lab, a research fellow of the Urban Systems Institute, and a faculty affiliate of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at the University of Toronto. He works primarily in ethics, law, and policy of artificial intelligence and machine learning, including generative AI. He also works in Bayesian statistics and epistemology. His research has appeared in Science, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Digitial Medicine, and the Harvard Business Review. It has also been profiled in Forbes, STAT News, China Business News, Tencent QQ, and The Edge Markets (Singapore). Before joining the University of Hong Kong, he was tenure track Assistant Professor of Statistics and Philosophy at the University of Toronto and tenure track Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD (both in France and Singapore). He completed his postdoc at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
 
Herman Cappelen is a Chair Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He’s a Director of the AI&Humanity-Lab at HKU and the Director of the MA Programme in AI, Ethics, and Society (at HKU). Prof. Cappelen is an elected member of the Academia Europaea and an elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is a leading expert in philosophical methodology, philosophy of AI, philosophy of language, and conceptual engineering. He is the author of eleven monographs and many influential papers.
 
Long Chen is currently a Lecturer at the School of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University. He received a master’s degree and a doctorate in philosophy from Peking University and King‘s College London respectively. His main research areas are philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of logic, especially Goedel’s philosophy of mathematics and the problem of vagueness as well as the liar and related paradox and the problem of logical normativity. He also has a keen interest in the history of 20th-century analytical philosophy and formal philosophy in general.
 
Haiqiang Dai, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy at Beijing Normal University, General Secretary of Chinese Wittgenstein Society, research areas including Wittgenstein, philosophy of language, philosophy of normativity, metacognition, philosophy of dreams.
 
Yifeng Ding is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Peking University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Logic and the Methodology of Science from UC Berkeley’s logic group under the supervision of Wesley Holliday in 2021. Before that, he received BA in philosophy and economics from Peking University in 2015. He works mainly in modal logic and axiomatic social choice theory. In modal logic, he has published works on logics for different kinds of knowledge, theories of non-normal modal logics, logics with propositional quantifiers, and comparative logics for probabilities and cardinalities. In social choice, his current interest is in axiomatic characterizations for margin-based voting methods, especially those that respond nicely to expansions of the pool of candidates and voters.
 
Jianqiao Ge is teaching at Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (AAIS), Peking University. Her research interests are focused on scientific studies of brain intelligence and social cognition. She is the Principle Investigator/Co-Investigator of more than 10 research grants supported by Ministry of Science and Technology of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission. She has published more than 20 referred research articles on leading academic journals such as Nature Neuroscience, PNAS, and awarded 2 national patents. She was awarded Berggruen Fellow 2021-2022.
 
Simon Goldstein is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on AI safety, epistemology, and philosophy of language. Before moving to Hong Kong University, he worked at the Center for AI Safety, the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, and at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He received my BA from Yale, and his PhD from Rutgers, where he wrote a dissertation about dynamic semantics.
 
Zhiwei Gu completed his PhD at CEU in 2020 and joined Fudan University as a postdoc in 2022, becoming an assistant professor in 2024. His research focuses on the philosophy of perception, mind, and metaphysics. He is currently working on a book that addresses challenges to naïve realism from cognitive science. He attempts to argue that low-level cognitive mechanisms can causally explain but not refute the high-level experiential relation.
 
Xiaoyu Ke is an empirically-informed philosopher of mind and psychology working on topics related to the ethics and epistemology of emotion. Her interests also extend to emerging technologies related to emotions, such as affective brain-computer-interface technology. Xiaoyu received her PhD from the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at the Washington University in St. Louis.
 
Xiaojiao Li (more to follow)
 
 
Yibin Liang (more to follow)
 
 
Jixin Liu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Sichuan University. His
research mainly focuses on modal logics, especially polyadic modal logics (where modal operators have more than one argument) and their applications (on knowledge, belief, evidence, and so on). He is also interested in how to characterize mathematical structures with (computable) modal languages. Other interests include social choice theory, the axiom of choice, metaphysics of time, and game theory.
 
Qiaoying Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University and a 2020-2021 Berggruen Institute Beijing fellow. Her research primarily focuses on the philosophy of biology and general philosophy of science. Key aspects of her work include establishing the theoretical basis for an extended gene-centered framework and utilizing structural causal models to examine genetic causality. She has also explored topics such as the units of natural selection, the resurgence of Lamarckian ideas, gene editing, and minimal cognition. Her recent research interests center on the evolution of biological cognition and consciousness and their relation to AI cognition.
 
Jianhua Mei (more to follow)
 
 
Qianqian Sun is a Lecturer at the School of Humanities, Central Academy of Fine Arts. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Foreign Philosophy at Peking University and completed postdoctoral research at the Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-sen University. His research focuses on the philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science within the analytic tradition. His current primary interests include action and perception, the mechanisms and architecture of cognition, and the fundamental units of cognition.
 
Sebastian Sunday Grève is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Peking University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Foreign Philosophy at Peking University and a former Berggruen China Fellow. He joined Peking University in 2019. Previously, he taught philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he gained his doctorate in 2018. In 2014, his essay ‘The Importance of Understanding Each Other in Philosophy’ was awarded the Annual Essay Prize of the British Royal Institute of Philosophy. Dr. Sunday works broadly in philosophy, on both practical and theoretical issues. He has published papers on topics ranging from aesthetics and the theory of knowledge to logic and the philosophy of mind, including artificial intelligence. Recent popular pieces include ‘AI’s First Philosopher’, ‘Can Machines Be Conscious?’, and ‘Nietzsche and the Machines’. Currently, Dr. Sunday is collaborating with colleagues in neuroscience and medicine at the University of Toronto on the use of large language models as a tool for clinical decision making as well as with colleagues from the Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies at Peking University on the perception of intelligence.
 
Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen isUnderwood Distinguished Professor of Philosophy atYonsei University. He is also the founder and director of the Veritas Research Center, Yonsei University, the editor in chief of the Asian Journal of Philosophy, co-founder of the Asian Epistemology Network and the Eastern Hemisphere Language & Metaphysics Network. His main research areas are epistemology, truth, and philosophy of technology (including AI). He is also interested in certain topics in metaphysics and the philosophies of logic and mathematics. In the past he has done a fair amount of work on pluralism about truth, logic, and ontology, as well as non-evidential warrant, epistemic value, and epistemic consequentialism. Quite some time ago he did some work on the epistemology of absence-based inference, open-ended schemas, and neo-Fregeanism in the philosophy of mathematics. More recently he has grown an interest in the history of analytic philosophy in Asia.
 
Bing Song (more to follow)
 
 
Jijiang Tian (more to follow)
 
 
Junqi Wang currently works as a researcher at State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence (Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI). He got PhD in Mathematics at Rutgers University and Bachelor’s degree in Physics at Zhejiang University. He started working in AI area since working as Postdoc in the Cognitive and Data Science Lab at Rutgers University. Currently he is working on various topics, including the modeling and learning of value systems of human beings, social intelligence modeling and language model related topics. He has publications on various conferences and journals including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CogSci, Entropy, etc. on various topics including Bayesian modeling theory, optimal transport, reinforcement learning, compression algorithm.
 
Yuzhou Wang (more to follow)
 
 
Brian Wong is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. His research examines intersection of geopolitics, political and moral philosophy, and technology, with particular interests in the ethics and dynamics of authoritarian regimes and their foreign policies, responding to historical and colonial injustices, and the impact of automation on labour and human societies. Brian is a Fellow at the newly established Centre on Contemporary China and the World, at the University of Hong Kong. As the Chief Strategy Officer of the HK-ASEAN Foundation, he advises multi-national corporations, family offices, and leading think-tanks on geopolitical affairs and macro risks throughout Asia. Having co-founded and served as the inaugural Editor-in-Chief at the Oxford Political Review, a publication aspiring to bridge the theory-practice gap, Brian serves as a columnist at the Hong Kong Economic Journal. His writings on Chinese political economy, Asian geopolitics, and public philosophy have been featured in publications such as TIME, Foreign Policy, Aeon, Financial Times, Diplomat, Fortune, The Hindu, South China Morning Post, Nikkei, Japan Times, and the US-Asia Law Institute. He has also been interviewed by CNN, Al Jazeera, and CGTN for his views on Chinese foreign policy. A Rhodes Scholar (HKSAR, 2020), Brian holds a DPhil in Politics, an MPhil in Political Theory (Distinction), and an MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford.
 
Xiaoyuan Yi (more to follow)
 
 
Yiwen Zhan is a Lecturer at the School of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University. He mainly works in metaphysics and epistemology. His research focuses on the philosophy of modality and formal epistemology. Recently, he is particularly interested in exploring the modelling of bounded rationality and processes of inquiry in epistemology and decision theory. He is also interested in metasemantics, and has a peculiar interest in the applications of plural logic in metaphysics.
 
Bolun Zhang (more to follow)
 
 
Ziheng Zhou is currently a PhD Candidate at UCLA CS Department, co-advised by Demetri Terzopoulos and Song-Chun Zhu. His research interests lie in world model, ethics and value alignment in AI, or more intuitively, how can we enable AI to learn a causal abstract understanding of the world from perception, and how to understand and align to human ethics. Previously, he was a co-founding partner of an AI medical imaging startup VoxelCloud Inc., invested by Sequoia China, Tencent and other famous investing firms for about one hundred million dollars. He obtained a bachelor’s degree of Computer Science with two minors in Cognitive Science and Philosophy from UCLA. Aside from work and formal education, he also studied Chinese traditional philosophies, especially Buddhism, in depth along with a Buddhist monk scholar.