research

Education

• 2015 Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Missouri, USA. (Advisor: André Ariew)
• 2011 M. A. Philosophy, University of Missouri, USA. 
• 2009 M. S. Psychology (Cognition and Perception), National Taiwan University, Taiwan. 
• 2006 B. S. Life Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taiwan.

Employment

• 2021 Oct - 2022 Dec. Postdoc, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna (PI: Barbara Fischer, INTERREG-AT/CZ)
• 2015 Oct - 2018 Oct. Postdoc, University of Bordeaux/CNRS (PI: Thomas Pradeu, ERC-IDEM)

Publications

Google Scholar || ORCID

• list of pubs

Awards

• 2017 ISHPSSB Callebaut Prize for Interdisciplinarity

• 2015 Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2015 (with Scott Gilbert)

• 2010 Association for the Scientific Studies of Consciousness Poster Prize (Philosophy Category)

Outreach

• Aeon Magazine (Jan 11, 2021)
  Evolution's Engineers: Organisms do not evolve blindly under forces beyond their control, but shape and influence the evolutionary environment itself with Kevin Laland

• Science Monthly Nov. 2020 issue (Chinese) 科學月刊2020十一月號
  Who is the Self in the Immune System? 免疫系統裡的「自我」是誰？(official podcast) (Full text on Medium) (PDF)

• The Philosopher's Cocoon
  What is it like to be a philosopher in Taiwan? with Lynn (Hsien-I) Chiu

• Panel presentation at the "Science Ground" sessions of the 2019 Festivaletteratura literary festival. Read my report here: A Philosopher of Biology at a Science Festival in a Literary Festival: Science Ground at Festivaletteratura

Past memberships

American Philosophical Association (APA), Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), European Science Engagement Association (EUSEA), Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), European Psychoneuroimmunology Network (EPN)