哲学系教授，博士生导师
主要学术兴趣：当代知识论、行动哲学、规范性哲学与匹兹堡学派研究
拟指导博士生的研究方向
1.分析哲学传统下的行动哲学、自我知识与规范性研究，特别是常识实在论传统与匹兹堡学派的思想资源交叉；
2.社会知识论与科学实践哲学研究，包括但不限于证言知识、科学理解、集体知识、制度认识论等议题。
代表性成果
专著《理解社会：从规范到机制》（华夏出版社2016年），获第八届高校人文社会科学研究优秀成果奖（2020），第4届科史哲青年著作奖（2018）；
英文合著Returning to Scientific Practice: a new reflection on philosophy of science (New York: Routledge, 2020)，第一作者；
论文《捍卫常识:从实践知识到行动哲学的新透视》（《哲学研究》，2020年第7期，118-126页），获上海市第十六届哲学社会科学优秀成果奖（2023），《中国社会科学文摘》（2020年第11期）和人大复印报刊资料全文转载；
论文《意图表达与行动的自我知识》（《哲学研究》，2014年第6期，101-106页）；
译著《自我知识》（布瑞·格特勒 著，华夏出版社2013年）；
译著《牛津通识读本：知识》（詹妮弗·内格尔 著，译林出版社2023年）。
学术兼职：
中华全国外国哲学史学会理事；
中国自然辩证法研究会理事、科学哲学专委会秘书长；
中国现代外国哲学学会知识论专委会常务理事、维特根斯坦哲学专委会理事；
上海市自然辩证法研究会理事。
联系方式：zxu@philo.ecnu.edu.cn
办公室：人文楼2411
Zhu XU
Professor, Faculty of Philosophy
Contact
Room 2411, Humanities Building
East China Normal University
No. 500 Dongchuan Rd., Minhang
Shanghai 200241
China
Email:zxu@philo.ecnu.edu.cn
Biography
I am a Professor specializing in epistemology, philosophy of action and normativity. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of the School of Humanities at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. I received my PhD from Tsinghua University in 2010, also within a joint training program with University of Pittsburgh, sponsored by China Scholarship Council.
I am also the Secretary General of China Society for Philosophy of Science and a Council Member of China Society for History of Western Philosophy. I was previously a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Philosophy at University of Oxford. I am now working on a research project “The First Personal Authority in Social Epistemology” (Grant No. 21BZX049) supported by National Social Science Foundation of China.
Teaching Summary
Introduction to Philosophy of Language (undergraduate)
Philosophy of Action (undergraduate & graduate)
Research Summary
As a philosopher working in contemporary analytic tradition, I study the relationship between knowledge, action, and social normativity. There are two approaches included in my research:
On the one hand, I employ the notions from philosophy of action to better understand epistemological issues.I have written about G. E. M. Anscombe’s philosophy of action, especially her conception of practical knowledge, the debates on self-knowledge in analytic philosophy, the first-person thought, and common sense realism from P. F. Strawson, G. Evans to J. McDowell. I have just finished a research project on theorizing self-knowledge from the perspective of knowledge-action relationship.
On the other hand, I examine how normativity and sociality bears on theoretical issues in scientific knowledge and understanding, which includes but not confines to issues such as testimonial knowledge, scientific understanding, group knowledge, and epistemology of institution. As a pragmatist, I also emphasize the practical turn in contemporary philosophy of science. In the book co-author with Tong WU,Returning to Scientific Practice (Routledge 2020), I argue that philosophy of science is supposed to be reconstructed from the practice-dominated view.
Recent Publications
In English
Returning to Scientific Practice: a new reflection on philosophy of science; New York: Routledge, 2020；
“Mechanism and Productive Event”,Scientific Explanation and Methodology of Science,G. Guo & C. Liu (eds). World Scientific Publishing, 2014
In Chinese
“Reasons for Action, Practical Reasoning, and Virtue Normativity”,China Social Science Review, 2023 (01)
“Self-Knowing and Acting: Joëlle Proust’s Theory of Metacognition”,Journal of Dialectics of Nature, 2022, 44(12)
“Defending Commonsense: From Practical Knowledge to Philosophy of Action”,Philosophical Research(Zhe Xue Yan Jiu), 2020, (7)
Understanding the Social: from normativity to mechanism, Beijing: Huaxia Press 2016
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