Talks (selected)

    2023

  • The 17th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST 2023), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jul 24-29, 2023
  • Symposium on Mathematics, Knowledge and Modality, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jul 24-29, 2023
  • Symposium on Evaluation of Knowledge, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jul 24-29, 2023
  • The 2nd Pan-American Symposium on the History of Logic, University of California, Los Angeles, Jun 20-23, 2023

    • 2022

  • "Monotonicity in Logic and Natural Language". Interdisciplinary Workshop on Language, Cognition and Logic. Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, Dec 3, 2022 (online)
  • "Social Epistemic Logic". Department of Philosophy, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Nov 22, 2022 (online). Poster.
  • "Reconsidering the Methodology of Chinese Logic Studies". Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nov 18, 2022 (online)
  • "Social Dimension of Epistemic Logic". Kunyu Forum in Philosophy, Hebei University, Nov 15, 2022 (online)
  • "An Introduction to the GEB Book". Classics of Science Book Club, Gasa Academy, Sep 10, 2022
  • (tutorial). "Preference Logic and Preference Change". Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Logic, Jun 22-24, 2022 (online)
  • "Logic and Logical Thinking". Yat-sen Forum, Sun Yat-sen University, June 15, 2022 (online). Poster.
  • "Deduction, Induction and Abduction in the Context of AI". The Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence Forum, May 28, 2022 (online). Poster.
  • "What is the Logical Thinking Ability?" Shanxi University, May 4, 2022 (online). Poster.
  • "Logic of Hide and Seek Games". The 6th International Workshop on Philosophy and Logic of Social Reality, University of Hokkaido, Japan, Feb 28- Mar 1, 2022 (online)
  • "From a Two-level Perspective on Preference to Deontic Logic". The Society of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems (DEON) seminar series, Jan 27, 2022 (online)
  • "A Simple Logic for the Hide and Seek Game". Workshop Exploring Baltag's Universe, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Jan 15, 2022 (online)
  • "Lost in Translation: Logic, Ancient Chinese and Modern Authors". HOLIC Workshop on Textual Analysis as the Basis for Understanding Chinese Logical Thought, Beijing, Jan 15-17, 2022 (online)
  • "Do We Reason Alike? A Logical Reflection on the Encounters between Chinese and Western Traditions". Tsinghua Global Lecture Series: Fine Traditional Chinese Culture, Jan 5, 2022 (online)

    • 2021

  • "Playing the Hide and Seek Game with Logic". Annual Conference for Beijing Logic Association, Nov 20, 2021
  • "Preference Change". EIPE seminar, Erasmus Institute for Philosophy & Economics / Erasmus School of Philosophy / Erasmus University Rotterdam, Nov 15, 2021 (online)
  • "LORI and Logics for Information and Interaction". Xi'an Jiaotong University, Oct 1, 2021
  • "Social Epistemic Logics: A Quick Review". Workshop at the Institute for Advanced Study in China in Hangzhou: New Frontiers in Proofs and Computation, Sep 16, 2021 (online)
  • "From Individual to Group Agency". The 6th Chinese Youth Philosophy Forum on Social Sciences, Peking University, Jun 26, 2021
  • "Logics for Social Agency". Changjiang Forum, Wuhan University, May 7, 2021
  • "Chinese Logical Thought: An Illustration". Cosmopolitan Philosophy Seminar, UC Berkeley (online), Mar 10, 2021

    • 2020

  • "Monotonicity and Mou Reasoning of the Mohist Logic". Department of Philosophy, Beijng Normal University, Dec 9, 2020
  • "New Trends in AI and Logic". Annual Conference for Beijing Logic Association, Nov 21, 2020
  • "Logical Thinking and Scientific Research". Lecture Series for Graduate Students, Tsinghua University, Nov 6, 2020

    • 2019

  • "Decision Making under Uncertainty: A New Pairwise Preference Lifting Method". Annual Conference for Beijing Logic Association, Nov 23, 2019
  • "Low Rationality vs High Rationality: Understanding Agents' Behaviors in Social Networks". Chinese National Conference on Modern Logics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Nov 9, 2019
  • "Collective Belief as Tendency Toward Consensus". International Conference on Modality, Logic and Philosophy, Peking University, Oct 12-13, 2019
  • "Chinese and Western Logical Traditions: Difference and Similarities". The 3rd Chinese-Polish Workshop on Applied Logic-Reasoning about Social Phenomena, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Sep 7-8, 2019
  • "Lifting Preference Probabilistically". Workshop on the Occasion of Johan's 70th Birthday, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Jun 12, 2019
  • "What does the Social Dimension Mean for Epistemic Logic?" Workshop on Language, Cognition and Mind, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Jun 1-2, 2019

    • 2018

  • "A New Series of Short Textbooks in Logic". National Conference on Logic Teaching, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, May 19-21, 2018
  • "Logic for Social Networks". The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich, Feb 22, 2018
  • "Learning from Others". ILLC mid-winter Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, Jan 12, 2018
  • "Chinese Philosophy Meets Modern Logic". Masterclass lectures, University of Amsterdam, Jan 11, 2018

    • 2017

  • "On Methodology of Research in the History of Logic in China". Department of Philosophy, Taiwan University, Nov 8-14, 2017
  • "Belief Aggregation via Markov Chain". Workshop on Topological Approaches in Epistemic Logic, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Oct 3, 2017
  • "A Logical View of Social Structure and Social Norms". Trends in Logic, Lublin, Poland, John Paul Catholic University of Lublin, Sep12-15, 2017
  • "Modal Logic of Social Agency". The 15th Asian Logic Conference (ALC), NIMS, South Korea, Jul10-14, 2017
  • "Taking Social Agency Seriously". Logic and Computation Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Apr 2, 2017
  • "Situation, Automata and Social Networks". Department Colloquium, Department of Computer Science, CUNY, Apr 20, 2017
  • "Experiences and Difficulties in Teaching Logic at Tsinghua". Spring Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, held jointly with the Pacific APA, Seattle, Apr 12-15, 2017
  • "Social Epistemic Logic". Spring Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, held jointly with the Pacific APA, Seattle, Apr 12-15, 2017
  • "Social Epistemic Logic". The Berkeley-Stanford Circle in Logic and Philosophy, San Francisco, March 4, 2017
  • "Situation Dynamics of Conformity". Workshop on Situations and Current Attitudes, Barwise Hall, CSLI, Stanford, Feb 12, 2017
  • "Reasoning about Knowledge in Social Settings". Department Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, UC-Davis, Feb 10, 2017

    • 2016

  • "Argumentation in Ancient China: from an Agency Point of View". International Conference "The Making of the Humanities" (V), Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, Oct 5-7, 2016
  • "Argumentation: From a Social Perspective". Chinese Conference on Logic and Argumentation (CLAR2016), Hangzhou, Zhejiang University, Apr 2-3, 2016
  • "Reasons to Believe in Social Settings". Workshop on Logical Dynamics of Social Influence and Information Change, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Mar 2, 2016

    • 2015

  • "Modelling Social Reasoning". The Fifth International Conference on Logic, Rationality and Interaction (LORI-V), Taipei, Oct 28-31, 2015
  • "Logics for Social Networks". Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), Toulouse, France, Jul 7-13, 2015
  • "Priority Structures in Deontic Logic". Formal Ethics 2015, University of Bayreuth, Germany, Jul 3-5, 2015
  • "Small Models for Great Thinkers in Ancient China". The 4th CSLI Workshop on Logic, Rationality & Intelligent Interaction, Stanford University, May 30-31, 2015
  • "Facebook Logic". PHI 359 Seminar, Stanford University, May 14, 2015
  • "A Tutorial on Preference Dynamics and Reasons for Preference". Department of Philosophy, UC Berkeley, May 6, 2015

    • 2014

  • "Priorities in Deontic Logic". Annual Conference for Beijing Logic Association, Nov 29, 2014
  • "Ways of Reasoning -- Similarities and Difference between Chinese and Western Traditions". The Fourth Conference on the History of the Humanities, Rome, Oct 16-18, 2014. Poster.
  • "Logic in the Facebook Age". The Impact of Logic, Celebration event in honour of Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam, Sep 26-27, 2014
  • "Emergence of Preferences from the Logical Perspective". The 14th SAET Conference on Current Trends in Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Aug 19-21, 2014. Poster.
  • "Thinking from a Social Perspective". Workshop Trends in Logic, Tsinghua University, Jul 2, 2014
  • "On 'Good Enough'". The Second Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Apr 12-13, 2014

    • 2013

  • "New Logical Perspectives on Ceteris Paribus Preference". The 3rd International Workshop on Philosophy and Ethics of Social Reality (SOCREAL), University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan, Oct 25-27, 2013
  • "A Long History of Chinese Logic". ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Sep 3, 2013
  • "A Journey to the West". Opening of the Academic Year, University of Amsterdam, Sep 2, 2013
  • "Epistemic Logic of Friendship". ILLC, University of Amsterdam, May 21, 2013
  • "Logical Thought in China". Philosophers Rally: China and West, Utrecht University, May 16-17, 2013

    • 2012

  • "Logics for Rational Agency". (tutorial) East-Asian School on Logic, Language and Computation (EASLLC 2012), Chongqing, Aug 25-31, 2012. Poster.
  • "Logical Dynamics of Belief Change in the Community". 2nd International Chinese Scholar Workshop on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRW 2012), Guiyang, Jun 17-19, 2012
  • "Reasoning about Preference Dynamics". Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic, JIAST, Ishikawa, Japan, Mar 15-17, 2012

    • 2011

  • "A Report on Recent Studies in Preference". Annual Conference for Beijing Logic Association, Dec 18, 2011
  • "Structured Preferences". Agents Lab, School of Computer Science, Nottingham University, May 13, 2011
  • "Information Update and the Development of Scientific Theories". Institute of STS, Tsinghua, Jan 13, 2011
  • "A Brief History of Chinese Logic". Logic and Philosophy Today, Delhi, India, Jan 5-6, 2011

    • 2010

  • "A Two Level Perspective on Preference". Annual Conference for Beijing Logic Association, Dec 19, 2010
  • "Chinese Logic and Philosophy: Reconstruction or Integration?" (public Lecture), Workshop on History of Logic in China, Amsterdam, Nov 24-26, 2010. Poster.
  • "Preference, Priorities and Deontics". National Conference on Modern Logics, Beijing, Apr 24-26, 2010
  • "Deontic Logic from a Preference Perspective". 2nd International Workshop on Philosophy and Ethics of Social Reality, University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan, Mar 27-28, 2010

    • 2009

  • "Dynamic Epistemic Logic from a Methodological Point of View". Annual Conference in Logics in Beijing, Nov 28, 2009
  • "Preference Change: A Quantitative Approach". Renmin University, Beijing, Sep 26, 2009

    • 2008

  • "On Knowledge, Belief and Preference". Annual Conference for Beijing Logic Association, Nov 23, 2008
  • "Logic for Interaction between Preference and Beliefs". The 7th International Conference on Logic and Cognition, Guangzhou, Nov 10-13, 2008
  • "On the Entanglement of Preference and Beliefs". Workshop on Proof, Reasons and Games, Tsinghua University, Nov 7, 2008
  • "Dynamics in Preference". The 8th Chinese National Conference in Logics, Tianjin, Oct 31- Nov 3, 2008
  • "A Model on Preference Change". The 3rd Cross Strait Conference in Logics, Soochow University, Taiwan, May 28-30, 2008
  • "Several New Directions in Logic Research". Workshop on Logic and Philosophy of Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, May 25, 2008
  • "On Preference and Diversity of Agent". Institute of Logic and Intelligence, South-West University, Chongqing, May 20-24, 2008
  • "Von Wrigt's Preference Logic revisited". Peking University, Apr 8, 2008

    • 2007

  • "Exploring Dynamics in Preference". Workshop on Formal Models of Norm Change, University of Luxembourg, Nov 29-30, 2007
  • "Two Models on Preference and Beliefs". Logics for Dynamics of Information and Preferences, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Nov 21 , 2007
  • "Dynamic Preference Logic". (tutorial) 2nd World Congress and School on Universal Logic, Xi'an, Aug 16-22, 2007
  • "How do we Change our Preference?". Seminars on Intelligent Systems, University of Utrecht, May 30, 2007

    • 2006

  • "Modelling Diversity of Agents". Foundations of Programming Meetings, School of Computer Science and IT, University of Nottingham, UK, Nov 3 2006
  • "Preference change". Guest lecture at Logic, Games and Computation, Amsterdam, Oct 18, 2006
  • "Modelling Preference Changes". Department of Philosophy and Science Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark, Sep 29, 2006
  • "Dynamics in Knowledge, Beliefs and Preference". IMFUFA seminarer, Institut for Natur, Systemer og Modeller, Roskilde University, Denmark, Sep 28, 2006

    • 2005

  • "Logic took me all the way to Amsterdam". China Workshop at ILLC, Amsterdam, Dec 16, 2005
  • "Information Update and Preference Upgrade". Logic Forum for Young Researchers, Beijing, Nov 25, 2005
  • "Dynamic Logic of Preference Upgrade". ESSLLI Workshop: Belief Revision and Dynamic Logic, Edinburgh, Aug 15-19, 2005
  • "Comment: Realistic common knowledge" (by Cedric Paternotte, IHPS)). First Paris-Amsterdam Logic Meeting of Young Researchers (PALMYR), Amsterdam, Jun 25, 2005

    • 2004

  • "On Belief Revision Policies". Department of Philosophy, Peking University, Dec 20, 2004
  • "Modelling Information Update". Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Sep 21, 2004
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