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| I.
Education |
- PhD in Philosophy, King's College London
- MA, BA (Hon) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford
- MPhil in Philosophy, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- BSSc in Sociology (minor: Philosophy), Chinese University of Hong Kong
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| II.
Career |
- Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University, since 2011
- Lecturer, University of Southampton, 2011
- Lecturer, University of Hull, 2010-2011
- Teaching Fellow, University of Exeter, 2009-2010
- Associate Lecturer, Open University, 2009-2011
- Teaching Tutor, King's College London, 2006-2011
- Tutor, Heythrop College, 2006-2011
- Assistant Teaching Fellow, Lingnan University, 2002-2003
- Demonstrator, City University of Hong Kong, 1995-2000
- Tutor, Open University of Hong Kong, 1995-1996
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| III.
Courses Taught |
| At the HKBU: |
- Nature and Human Beings in Chinese and Western Cultures
- Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
- Philosophy of Life in Laozi and Zhuangzi
- Philosophy of Life in the Post Modern Age
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| At other universities: |
- Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
- Philosophical Texts: Descartes' Meditations and Mill's On Liberty
- Mind, Brain and Behaviour
- Philosophy of Mind: Intentionality and Mental Representation
- Philosophy of Religion
- Philosophy and Human Situation
- Reason, Logic and Argument
- Introduction to Philosophy of Science and Social Sciences
- Understanding Knowledge
- Critical and Creative Thinking
- Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy
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| IV.
Research Interests |
| Areas of specialisation: |
- Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Mind
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| Specific interests: |
- Theories of reference
- Two-dimensional semantics
- Modality: metaphysical and epistemic possibilities
- Contextualism versus invariantism
- Relativism
- Theories of mental representations
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Dissertation title: Names and Empty Names
Supervisors: Prof Mark Textor, Prof Mark Sainsbury, Dr Keith Hossack
Examiners: Prof Dorothy Edgington, Prof Manuel Garcia-Carpintero |
This dissertation critically surveys philosophical works on proper names from Mill, Frege, Russell to contemporary contributions such as Kripke and Sainsbury, with special emphasis on whether the various theories give a satisfactory account of empty names. It proposes a Counterfactual Reference Theory of names for further development, which was commented as 'novel and ingenious', 'ambitious' and 'certainly worth developing'.
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| V.
Research Grant/Award/Professional Service |
- Referee, Praxis, a journal edited at the University of Manchester, since 2007
- Partnership Visit Grant, Monash University and the University of Hong Kong, 2009
- Norman Malcolm Fellowship, Cornell University, 2005
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| Professional membership: |
- Aristotelian Society, since 2008
- American Philosophical Association, since 2005
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| VI.
Publications |
| Books and articles: |
- Understand Logic. London: Hodder Education, forthcoming.
- 'Fregean Free Logic', Philosophical Researches, Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, December 2009, pp.123-9.
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| Works in progress: |
- 'Justification of Supervaluation in Free Logic: A Two-Dimensional Semantic Model'
- 'Counterfactual Reference & Empty Names'
- 'Why Am I Not a Russellian About Names'
- 'Truth Condition and Empty Names: A Comment to Sainsbury's Reference Without Referents'
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Invited talks:
'A Counterfactual Reference Theory of Empty Names' |
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University of Tokyo, International Meeting of Hongo Metaphysics Club, 14 February 2011
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University of Hull, Philosophy Research Seminar, 14 December 2010
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National Yang Ming University, Taiwan, 6 November 2009
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National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, 3 November 2009
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Monash University, Staff Seminar, 6 March 2009
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Lingnan University, Department Seminar, 23 February 2009
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University of Hong Kong, Philosophy Seminar, 19 February 2009
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| Conference Presentations: |
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'Truth Condition and Empty Names', Taiwan Logic and Analytic Philosophy Inaugural Conference, National Taiwan University, 31 October -1 November 2009.
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'A Counterfactual Reference Theory', Joint Session 2009, the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of East Anglia, 10-12 July 2009.
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'Fregean Free Logic', the 4th Cross Strait Conference on Logic Education and Research, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Baptist University of Hong Kong, 24-25 June 2009.
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'A Counterfactual Reference Theory of Fictional Discourse', SIFA 2008, the 8th National Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy: Ontology, Mind, and Language, University of Bergamo, 25-27 September 2008.
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'Empty Names and Free Logic', Joint Session 2008, organised by the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Aberdeen, 11-13 July 2008.
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'Supervaluation and Fregean Free Logic', Open Minds Conference 2008, University of Manchester, 9-10 June 2008.
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| VII.
Community Service |
Outside the academia, Siu-Fan was an art administrator, filmmaker, oral historian and an active participant in community and diversity matters. She directed and produced an 87-minute documentary, 'Whispers of Time', on Chinese immigrants in Britain. The film was a finalist of the Pearl Award for Media Excellence in 2005 and 2006. She curated an exhibition on China at the Royal Geographical Society in the UK in 2008. She was also a member of the User Advisory Committee, the National Archives, and a secretary of the Workforce Diversity Workgroup of the cultural sector in the UK. |
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