In January 2024, I joined the Department of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University as Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Before that, I was a Philosophical Review Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Sage School of Philosophy.

I completed my Ph.D at Duke under the advising of Katherine Brading in July 2022. My main research areas are early modern philosophy, history and philosophy of science, and Chinese philosophy, especially Chinese Islamic philosophy (yes it exists, and richly so!).

My work has received awards from the Philosophy of Science Association Women’s Caucus (now renamed as the DEI Caucus), the British Society for the History of Philosophy, and the Metaphysical Society of America; additionally, I have also won two sub-grants from major John Templeton projects (see “Awards” section on my CV).

I obtained my B.A from St. John’s College in Maryland, where I did the Great Books Program and fell for philosophy because it was so much fun. Then I went to Tufts University for an M.A in Philosophy to start trying to turn this fun-to-do thing into a career.

I was born and raised in Hainan 海南, a tropical island in the South China Sea. Cooking is the second best thing I do after philosophy. You can reach me at QiuLinPhilosophy@gmail.com