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Dec 10, 2023: I was invited to deliver a keynote speech at the Hopkins Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, hosted by the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. This is the inaugural edition of this seminar, and will be the first keynote I give in my career — needless to say, I am very excited about it! Learn more about the event here.

Jul 2, 2022: My project How She Disappeared and What We Ought To Do is the winning entry of the 2023 Einstein Fellowship! It was selected from more than 1,000 applications globally. The fellowship includes living accommodations for six months in the garden cottage of Einstein’s own summerhouse in Caputh, Brandenburg, only a short distance away from the universities and academic institutions of Potsdam and Berlin. Needless to say, I am very excited about this opportunity! Read more about the Fellowship’s mission here.

Jun 8, 2022: Our proposed symposium, Du Châtelet as Philosopher Physics, is selected for the 2022 Philosophy of Science Association Women’s Caucus Prize Symposium award! Other symposium contributors are Fatema Amijee, Andrew Janiak and Katherine Brading. Please come join us to learn more about Du Châtelet’s philosophy of physics. You can read about PSA Women’s Caucus awards here.

Jun 6, 2022: My project, ““Life is also not Life, Death is also not Death”: an Chinese-Islamic Perspective by Wang Daiyu (1570-1660?)“, won an English Language Support Grant (£1,000) from the Global Philosophy of Religion Project! I aim to finish this paper by the end of September. More about the Grant here.

Apr 23, 2022: My project “The Pre-History of Du Châtelet’s Chapter of Space” won a Scholarly Activity Award (£1,000) from the British Society for the History of Philosophy! The Award will support my archival trip to study the unpublished 1738 manuscript of Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics, now stored in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Find out more about the Award here.

Jun 20-23, 2022: I am delighted to announce that Duke Philosophy will have a major presence in HOPOS 2022: come learn something about Euler with my cohort Michael Veldman, about Newton with Caleb Hazelwood, about Du Châtelet with me, and join Katherine Brading for her keynote speech! The 2022 gathering is generously supported by the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science of UC Irvine.

December 18, 2021: I am very pleased to learn that my second project on Chinese Islamic philosophy, “Constructing an Islamic Philosophy in a Predominantly Confucian Society: the Case of Wang Daiyu王岱舆 (1570-1660)”, is selected as one of the two workshop papers in the Forms and Functions of Islamic Philosophy Conference. The conference will be held at Bard College from Mar 31 to Apr 1, 2022.

November 9, 2021: I am very delighted to announce that my first paper on Chinese Islamic philosophy, “Wang Daiyu王岱舆 (1570-1660) on the Non-Ultimate (wuji 无极) and the Great-Ultimate (taiji 太极): an Islamic makeover”, is the winner of this year’s Aristotle Prize, awarded by the Metaphysical Society of America! Check out the Society’s distinguished mission and history here.

July 28, 2021: I am very excited to learn that my project “Du Châtelet on mechanical explanation versus physical explanation” is accepted for presentation at the 11th New York City Early Modern Philosophy Workshop! The theme this year is Science and Philosophy in the Early Modern Period, and the keynote speakers are Katherine Brading (Duke) and Richard Arthur (McMaster). Check out the workshop’s mission and program here!

Jun 2, 2021: My paper “Zhuangzi on Yu, Zhou, and the Ontic Indeterminacy of the Dao” is accepted for inclusion in the main program of APA 2022, Eastern Division! In it I offered a critical examination of some standard views regarding the notions of space and time in the Chinese philosophical tradition. Please see “Research Projects” for more details.

Mar 31, 2021: I am pleased to announced that my proposed project “Wang Daiyu on the three ultimates: an Islamic makeover” received a $9,500 Summer Research Grant from The Christian West and the Islamic East: Theology, Science, and Knowledge, an exciting project jointly supported by the John Templeton Foundation and the University of Missouri–St. Louis. This award will enable me to complete an article-length project on Wang Daiyu’s theory of transformative creation this summer, and the final product will be published in a thematic volume alongside the works of other awardees. You can learn more about the Templeton-UMSL project here.

Talks:

Mar 23, 2022: I will present my paper “Wang Daiyu王岱舆 (1570-1660) on the Non-Ultimate (wuji 无极) and the Great-Ultimate (taiji 太极): an Islamic makeover” at the 72nd annual meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America, hosted by Marquette University. The theme of the 2022 meeting is Metaphysical Traditions in Dialogue. I will deliver the Aristotle Prize Lecture on Mar 25: please find the conference program here!

Sep 1-4, 2021: I will present “Du Châtelet on mechanical explanation versus physical explanation” at Annual Conference of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science. This year, Kerry McKenzie (UCSD) will deliver the Presidential Address, and keynote talks are going to be given by John Dupré (Exeter), Barbara Vetter (Free University, Berlin) and Jo Wolff (Edinburgh). Link to program will be made available once announced.

Jun 25, 2021: I will present my Euler project, “Euler against Newtonian Gravity: “A Crude Hypothesis”?” at the Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Graduate Conference. Here is the link to LMP 2021’s program, where you can find many interesting talks by early-career scholars!

Jun 22-24, 2021: My project “Wang Daiyu and the three ultimates: an Islamic makeover” is selected to be presented at the Global Philosophy of Religion Online Conference hosted by the University of Birmingham. The link to program will be made available once announced.

Jun 2, 2021: I will present the awarded project with other awardees at an online workshop dedicated to the Summer Research Award 2021. Please email Billy Dunaway at dunawayw@umsl.edu, or Jon McGinnis at mcginnis@umsl.edu, the two very helpful project leaders, for more information about the event.

May 29, 2021: I will present my third Du Châtelet project, “Du Châtelet on mechanical explanation versus physical explanation” at the annual conference of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science. Please click here for their 2021 program!

May 17, 2021: I will deliver a talk at the Princeton-Rutgers Philosophy of Religion Incubator, “Wang Daiyu and the three ultimates: an Islamic makeover”. Most presenters are up-and-coming scholars in the field — please check out the program here!