Jian WANG || Curriculum Vitae
CONTACT:
Mail Department of Philosophy, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 28 Xianning West Road, Beilin District, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China, 710049
Email wangjian0525@xjtu..edu.cn
EDUCATION:
2010-2016 Xi'an Jiaotong University, Ph.D., philosophy
2003-2010 Ludong University, Master of Laws
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
2020-present Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Xi'an Jiaotong University
2018-2019 Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
2016-2019 Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Xi'an Jiaotong University
2014-2015 Visiting scholar, Bertalanffy Institute of System Science, Vienna University of Technology
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
philosophy of perception (mind and world, anti-skepticism, symbolic naturalism)
information philosophy, phenomenology, postmodern philosophy, speculative realism, pragmatism
PUBLICATIONS:
Journal articles (English)
WJ. Why Entropy is not Enough? Good Emerges from the Relaxation between Order and Disorder(合作). Theoretical Information Studies, Edited By: Mark Burgin and Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, 2020.
WJ. On the Informational Essence of Emergence and Evolution: An Analysis of the New Dualistic Approach(合作). Academics, 2018(06).
WJ. Increase or Decrease of Entropy: To Construct a More Universal Macroethics(合作), APA newsletter| philosophy and computers, 2015.
WJ. Explanation of Integral Thinking from the Contemporary Perspective of System, Canadian Social Science, 2013(06).
WJ. Commentary on Study of Contemporary Integrative Thinking, Asian Social Science, 2009(10).
Books
WJ. Comparative Study of International Information Philosophy, Xi'an Jiaotong University Press, 2019.
WJ, … (eds.) Introduction to Information Philosophy, Xi'an Jiaotong University Press, 2020.
WJ, … (translated) Emerging Information: Basic Outline of Information Science, China Social Sciences Press, 2020.
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS:
WJ. The metaphysical breakthrough of the information concept- based on the criticism of Heidegger's information technology, Songwu Forum, Department of Philosophy, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2017.
WJ. Floridi's semantic information theory and metaphysics, Songwu Forum, Department of Philosophy, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2018.
COURSES TAUGHT:
Undergraduate level
1. Postmodernist philosophy (optional course for the third year of philosophy major, 32 hours)
2. Methodology of scientific and technological innovation (optional course for the fourth year of philosophy major, 32 hours)
3. History of science and technology (optional course for philosophy pilot class, 32 hours)
4. History of western philosophy Ι &Ⅱ (compulsory course for the first and second years of philosophy major, responsible for the middle and late period of ancient Greece and modern American and French philosophy, 28 hours)
5. History of Marxist philosophy Ⅱ (compulsory course for the third year of philosophy major, responsible for Western and Chinese Marxist thoughts, 48 hours)
Graduate level
1. Latest development of modern western philosophy (responsible for post-modernist philosophy, 16 hours)
ACADEMIC TUTOR:
Undergraduates
1. Guijia WANG: Knowing What-How in Action -A Study of Perceptual Philosophy with Frisbee Movement as an Example, 2020.
2. Shuyi LI: The Debate between Representation and Anti-representation——Based on Peirce's Theory of Perception, 2021.
FUNDED PROJECTS:
Hosting
1. Ontological Research on Information Concept. General Project of Shaanxi Provincial Social Science Foundation (2017C003. 2017), 2017.
2. Comparative Research on International Information Philosophy. The humanities and social sciences academic publishing fund (2nd batch of year 2019), Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2019.
3. Research on the history and development of the international information philosophy paradigm from a comparative perspective. Central government universities’ basic scientific research fund, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2019.
Participating
1. Sub-project leader. The basic path and method of foreign information philosophy research. Of 2018 National Social Science Foundation Major Project: The History, Current Situation and Future of Information Philosophy (18ZDA027), 2018.
2. Sub-project participant. The new challenge of contemporary information technology revolution to traditional issues of epistemology. Of 2015 National Social Science Foundation Major Project: Research on Contemporary Epistemology Based on Philosophy of Information Technology (15ZDB019), 2015.
3. Sub-project participant. Research on the ontological thinking of artificial intelligence. Of 2018 Ministry of Education Social Science Foundation Major Project: Philosophical Thinking of Artificial Intelligence (18JZD013), 2018.
ACADEMIC SERVICE:
Academic organization
1. Director of the Office of International Information Philosophy Research Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
2. Member of the Global Sustainable Information Society Institute, Vienna, Austria.
3. Member of the Chinese Chapter of the International Information Research Society, Beijing, China.
