Graduate Students

Current Students

Hsiang-Chen Chi
東海大學哲學系

De-Fan Chen
國立陽明交通大學醫學系

Kuang Ying Sonic Yang
國立陽明交通大學醫學系
Advisor: Karen Yan

Cheng-Ju Lu
國立陽明交通大學醫學系

Hung-Shao Ho
東吳大學哲學系

Yi-Hua Hung
國立臺灣藝術大學圖文傳播學系

Tzu-Ang Kuo
國立臺灣大學數學所

Stephnie Lu
BA in Business Administration, University of Washington
Advisor: Karen Yan

Chao Shan Hsu
Ph.D. Student, Art History, Vienna Doctoral School Cognition, Behaviour and Neuroscience, University of Vienna
Advisor: Kai-Yuan Cheng 、Szu-Yen Lin(Department of Philosophy, SCU)

Lo Yen Chan
國立臺灣師範大學國文學系
Advisor: Alexandre Erler

Zi Cheng Wang
輔仁大學哲學系
Advisor: Karen Yan

Jun Xiang Wang
國立陽明交通大學藥學系
Advisor: Alexandre Erler

Christina Ni
銘傳大學廣告學系
Advisor: Karen Yan

Daphne Lin
國立陽明交通大學外國語文學系
Advisor: Christopher McCarroll

Yo-Ming Hsu
國立政治大學哲學系
Advisor: Christopher McCarroll
、Michael Stuart(Department of Philosophy, University of York)

HsiangYun Hsieh
國立中正大學哲學系
Advisor: Christopher McCarroll

Ming-Hao Zhang
輔仁大學哲學系
Advisor: Ying-Tung Lin

Hui-Ying Chou
國防醫學院醫學系
Advisor: Ying-Tung Lin

Sam Tsai
輔仁大學哲學系
Advisor: Christopher McCarroll

Chiao-Fen Lin
國立高雄師範大學美術系
Advisor: Kai-Yuan Cheng 、Szu-Yen Lin(Department of Philosophy, SCU)

Jonah Chen
東吳大學心理系哲學系雙主修
Advisor: Christopher McCarroll

Weihans Kuo
Temple University

Graduated Students

YenYi Shi
Thesis Title: The Expansion and Transcendence of Consciousness Space in Spiritual Growth
Advisor: Kai-Yuan Cheng
Current Status: Ph.D. Student, Graduate Institute of Philosophy, National Tsing Hua University

Yick Hei Chan
Thesis Title: Theory-Based and Practice-Based Approaches to Underdetermination
Advisor: Jonathon Hricko

Shao-Chi Chiu
Thesis Title: Weaker Boundary Extension in Observer Perspective Memory than Field Perspective Memory
Advisor: Ying-Tung Lin、Po-Jang Hsieh(Department of Psychology, NTU)

Min-Jung Cheng
Thesis Title: Patient Models and the Bio-Psycho-Social Model in Cancer Care
Advisor: Karen Yan
Current Status: Employed

Scott Lee
Thesis Title: What Do Philosophers Really Mean When They Talk about Intuition? A Qualitative Study
Advisor: Angel Ho、Michael Stuart(Department of Philosophy, University of York)

Anya Hsu
Thesis Title: Reasoning of Anesthesia Status under General Anesthesia
Advisor:Karen Yan
Current Status: Employed

Phoebe Pan
Thesis Title: Self-Doubt in Dementia Patients: Revisiting the Concept of the Epistemic Agent
Advisor: Ying-Tung Lin

Tan Yen Tsai
Thesis Title: On Two Fixpoint Model Constructions for Naive Set Theory
Advisor: Jonathon Hricko、Shawn Standefer(Department of Philosophy, NTU)

Joel Huang
Thesis Title: Semantic Perception: Reflections on Semantics and Pragmatics from a New Perspective
Advisor: Kai-Yuan Cheng

Yun Yin Guo
Thesis Title: The Intertwined Relationship of Knowledge and Values in Shared Decision-Making
Advisor: Karen Yan
Current Status: Ph.D. Student, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina

Shan-Yi Cheng
Thesis Title: Analysis of Ego Dissolution While Meditating and Experiencing Psychedelics
Advisor: Pei Chi Tu

I-Jan Wang
Thesis Title: Simulated Embodiment: Why Our Bodies and Interactions in Mental Simulation Matter
Advisor: Ying-Tung Lin、 Michael Stuart
Current Status: Ph.D. Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati

Kuan Wei Wu
Thesis Title: The Non-Existence of Representational Content and What We Should Learn From It
Advisor: Kai-Yuan Cheng

Yu Syuan Guo
Thesis Title: Defending Virtual Realism in Technophilosophy
Advisor: Kai-Yuan Cheng

Ching-Wei Chen
Thesis Title: The Methodological Issues in Studies of Selfless Experience
Advisor: Ying-Tung Lin
Current Status: Employed

Hong-Ui Tenn
Thesis Title: Causal Complexity and Causal Ontology of Health-Related Quality of Life Model
Advisor: Karen Yan
Current Status: Ph.D. Student, Research group Human Media Interaction, Department EEMCS, The University of Twente

Chuan-Ya Liao
Thesis Title: Measuring the Cross-Disciplinarity in the Empirically-Informed Philosophy of Mind
Advisor: Karen Yan

Tzu-Chun Su
Thesis Title: Self Identity: In Defense of the Simple View
Advisor: Kai-Yuan Cheng

Debby Lin
Thesis Title: A Philosophical Inquiry on Scientific Chinese Medicine
Advisor: Kai-Yuan Cheng
Current Status: Employed

Wei-Jen Huang
Thesis Title: Viewing the Possibility of Intelligent Language Processing from Two AI Models
Advisor: Wen-Fang Wang
Current Status: Employed

Mark Chen
Thesis Title: The Liar Paradox and Its Two Attempted Groups of Solutions
Advisor: Wen-Fang Wang

Fun Chi Chang
Thesis Title: A Philosophy of Science for Measuring Well-Being: The Case of SIWB
Advisor: Karen Yan
Current Status: Employed

An-Chin Chen
Thesis Title: Existence Cosmopsychism and Boundary of Mind
Advisor: Allen Houng
Current Status: Employed

Hsiang-Chung Lin
Thesis Title: Choking Effect: A Multidimensional View of Skilled Performance and Cognitive Resources
Advisor: Ying-Tung Lin
Current Status: Employed

NG UT CHI
Thesis Title: One and Infinity
Advisor: Wen-Fang Wang
Current Status: Employed

Huai-An Hsing
Thesis Title: The Nature of Suffering
Advisor:Ying-Tung Lin
Current Status: Employed

Yi-Hsuan Kao
Thesis Title:
Eliminating the Neuroscientific Concept of Consciousness?
Advisor: Karen Yan
Current Status: Ph.D. Student, Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario

Yu-Chen Chen
Thesis Title:
Clinical Empathy and First-Person Transformative Experience of Illness
Advisor: Karen Yan
Current Status:Employed

Yi-Ching Tseng
Thesis Title:
Model-Based Reasoning in Cognitive Neuroscience
Advisor:Karen Yan
Current Status:Employed

Hong-Teng Lin
Thesis Title:
How Can Robot Exhibit Intentionality?
Advisor: Allen Houng
Current Status: Employed

Hsin-Ping Wu
Thesis Title:
Does Perceptual Consciousness Overflow Cognitive Access? – Insights from Studies of Autistic Perception
Advisor:Allen Houng
Current Status:Ph.D. Student, Brain Mind Institute, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Kai-Chung Yang
Thesis Title:Analyzing Heterogeneity of Depression in the Context of Scientific Explanation
Advisor:Karen Yan
Current Status:Employed

Hsien-Chih Chiou
Thesis Title:Hallucination:Views from Realism and Transcendental Idealism
Advisor:Thomas Benda
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Current Status:Employed

Yunn Ueng
Thesis Title:How Dynamical Models Explain?
Advisor:Karen Yan
Current Status:Ph.D. Student, Department of Philosophy, Arizona State University

Shang-Ching Yen
Thesis Title:Pretense Theories and Operator Accounts
Advisor:Wen-Fang Wang

Abraham Lim Ken Zhi
Thesis Title:Constructive Empiricism and the Status of Time in Relation to it
Advisor:Thomas Benda

Chang-Chih Wu
Thesis Title:Is Moral Sense An Evolutionary Adaptation?
Advisor:Kai-Yuan Cheng
Current Status:Ph.D. Student, Department of Philosophy, National Chengchi University

Ching-Tang Kao
Thesis Title:The Two Worlds Hypothesis: an Error of the Evolutionary Debunking Theories
Advisor:Thomas Benda
Current Status:Employed

Yuan-Ho Yao
Thesis Title:Context-Dependent Epistemic Logic : A Formal System
Advisor:Wen-Fang Wang

Faith Ruofan Laio
Thesis Title:Neuroethics of Mental Disorder: The Ethical Concern about Psychodrama
Advisor:Aleksandra Mroczko-Wasowicz
Current Status:Research Fellow and Assistant Professor, Taipei Medical University
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Hsin-Min Chiang
Thesis Title :An Interdisciplinary Study of Self and Body: From the Perspectives of Philosophy, Neuroscience and Psychiatric Cases
Advisor:Kai-Yuan Cheng、Pei-Chi Tu
Current Status:Employed

Hsin-Hui Lin
Thesis Title:Interdisciplinary Study of Self and Culture: From Philosophy, Psychology, to Neuroscience
Advisor:Kai-Yuan Cheng
Current Status:Employed

Maricelli Soberanis
Thesis Title:A Look at Two Mental Disorders From A Philosophical Perspective of Personal Identity
Advisor:Thomas Benda

Ka-Yeung Leung
Thesis Title:Are There Any Distinctions between Basic and Complex Emotions?
Advisor:Aleksandra Mroczko-Wasowicz
Current Status:Employed

Han-Yu Chu
Thesis Title:What We Cannot Know: Essential I and Outside World
Advisor:Thomas Benda
Current Status:Employed

Hao Pang
Thesis Title:What Is the Requirement for A Creature to Perceive the World Objectively?
Advisor:Aleksandra Mroczko-Wasowicz
Current Status:Employed

Tzu-Feng Liu
Thesis Title:Why Is the Problem of Consciousness So Hard?
Advisor:Allen Houng
Current Status:Employed

Chieh-Ling Cheng
Thesis Title:An Inquiry to the Lost Self of Demented Patients
Advisor: Karen Yan
Current Status: Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia

Angel Cvetkov
Thesis Title:Do Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness Have Epistemic Value in the Philosophy of Mind?
Advisor: Aleksandra Mroczko-Wasowicz
Current Status:Employed

Hui-Ming Chin
Thesis Title:Do Autistic Patients Lack Self-Consciousness?
Advisor: Allen Houng
Current Status: Ph.D. Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta

Yao-Wen Hsieh
Thesis Title: Are Mental Properties Emergent Properties?
Advisor: Allen Houng
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Current Status: Employed

Ling-Fang Kuo
Thesis Title:Is Free Will An Illusion?
Advisor:Allen Houng
Current Status:Employed

Li-An Yu
Thesis Title:Determinism and Indeterminism in the Light of Modern Physics
Advisor:Thomas Benda
Current Status:Postdoc, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
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Tung-Ying Wu
Thesis Title: The Epistemic Problems of Peer Disagreement
Advisor: Wen-Fang Wang
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Current Status: Assitant Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ying-Tung Lin
Thesis Title: Does Self-Consciousness Require the Concept of Self-Reference?
Advisor: Allen Houng
Current Status: Associate Professor, Institute of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Nai-Jia Liu
Thesis Title:Inductive Cosmological Argument-Why It Is the Best Choice for People Who Have Faith in God
Advisor: Thomas Benda
Current Status: Employed

Pao-Yuan Cheng
Thesis Title:Structural Universals
Advisor: Wen-Fang Wang
Current Status: Employed

Chun-An Chou
Thesis Title:The Liar Paradox: Whether the Two Theories, by Burge and Gaifman Respectively, Solve the Paradox
Advisor:Wen-Fang Wang
Current Status:Employed

Chia-Hua Lin
Thesis Title: The Conceptual Problem of Other Minds: An Attempt From the Mirroring Model of the Simulation Theory
Advisor: Allen Houng
Current Status: Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Fairfield University

Yuan-Chieh Yang
Thesis Title: Physicalism versus Functionalism: The New Debate on Consciousness
Advisor: Allen Houng
Current Status:Employed

Peng Chien
Thesis Title:Consciousness, Physicalism, and the Knowledge Argument
Advisor: Allen Houng