Wenfang Wang

Affiliation: School of Philosophy and Social Development, Shandong University, China.

Research Interests

Logic, philosophy of logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language, formal epistemology, Buddhism, and philosophy of artificial intelligence. Additional areas: epistemology, Chinese philosophy, philosophy of science, ethics, and philosophy of mind.

Education

  • 1996 — Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Iowa. Dissertation: Nonactualism; supervisor: Panayot Butchvarov.
  • 1986 — M.A. in Political Science, Political Warfare College.
  • 1983 — B.A. in Political Science, Political Warfare College.

Academic Appointments and Service (Selected)

  • 2014–2019 — Director, Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Yang-Ming University.
  • 2008 onward (as listed in the earlier CV) — Professor, Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Yang-Ming University.
  • 2016–2019 — Adjunct Professor, Research Center of Logic and Intelligence, Southwest University.
  • 2012 onward (as listed in the earlier CV) — Adjunct Professor, Modern Logic and Application Institute, Nanjing University.
  • 2005–2006 — Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University.
  • 2001–2003 — Assistant Professor; 2003 — Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Chung-Cheng University.
  • Academic service includes the Chinese Logic Society, the editorial board of NTU Humanitas Taiwanica, and organization of LORI-5.

Honors (Selected)

Research Excellence Awards, Yang-Ming University (2010–2014, 2017–2019, in years listed in the earlier CVcv).

Selected Research Projects

  • 2017–2020: Modal Epistemology: Williamson’s Counterfactual Theory (three stages).
  • 2014–2017: Skepticism about the External World, Knowledge Closure Principles, and Formal Epistemology (three stages).
  • 2010–2013: Paraconsistency vs. Paracompleteness (three stages).
  • 2007–2010: The Concept of Truth and Its Related Programs (three stages).

Publications

Books, Edited Volumes, and Translations

  • 2026. 王文方，《逻辑学与哲学》。濟南：山东大学出版社，2026年3月。ISBN 978-7-5607-9212-5。
  • 2023. 王文方，《邏輯思維當代應用—從哲學、數學、語言學、AI角度全方位學邏輯》。台北：五南圖書出版公司，2023年10月。ISBN 978-626-366-411-1。
  • 2023. 王文方譯，P. F. Strawson著，《個體—論描述的形而上學》。北京：商務印書館，分析哲學名著譯叢，2023年10月，ISBN 978-7-100-22622-6；漢譯世界學術名著叢書（120年紀念版・珍藏版・增訂版），2024年5月，ISBN 978-7-100-23706-2；漢譯世界學術名著叢書（第23輯），2025年，ISBN 978-7-100-23706-2。
  • 2023. 王文方、王聰主編，《哲學與文化》「模態認識論」專題，第50卷第9期（總第592期），2023年10月。
  • 2018. Wiebe van der Hoek, Wesley H. Holliday, and Wen-fang Wang (eds.), “Logic, Rationality, and Interaction” (LORI-5 special issue), Journal of Logic and Computation, 2018.
  • 2018. Wiebe van der Hoek, Wesley H. Holliday, and Wen-fang Wang (eds.), “Logic, Rationality, and Interaction” (LORI-5 special issue), Synthese, 2018.
  • 2016. 王文方譯，P. F. Strawson著，《Individuals》（中文譯本）。台北：Liking Publishing，2016。ISBN 9789570846027。
  • 2015. Wiebe van der Hoek, Wesley H. Holliday, and Wen-fang Wang (eds.), Logic, Rationality, and Interaction: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Interaction (LORI-5). Berlin: Springer, 2015.
  • 2011. Minghui Xiong and Wen-fang Wang, Introduction to Logic. Tainan: Chong-hai Publisher，2011年12月。ISBN 9789866184581。
  • 2011. Wen-fang Wang, Philosophy of Language. Taipei: San-ming Publisher，2011年5月。ISBN 9789571454887。
  • 2008. Wen-fang Wang, Introduction to Metaphysics. Taipei: San-ming Publisher; the CV lists the entry under 2007 but gives September 2008 as the publication date.ISBN 9571449806。
  • 2005. Wen-fang Wang, What Kind of World Is It?—A Study of Metaphysics. Taipei: San-ming Publisher，2005年9月。
  • 2002. Translation of selected entries from The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy，159個條目，逾10萬字。Owl Publishing Company，2002。

Articles, Book Chapters, Reviews, and Other Writings

  • 2026. 王文方，〈哲學與人工智能〉，《東岳論叢》，2026年第8期，頁60–72。
  • 2025. 王文方，〈東西方分體論觀點之融合研究—組合虛無主義的進一步發展〉，《哲學研究》（CSSCI），2025年第12期，頁95–106；人大複印報刊資料《外國哲學》2026年第3期全文轉載。
  • 2025. 王文方，〈模糊事物與模糊等同〉，《湖北大學學報（哲學社會科學版）》（CSSCI），2025年第4期，頁70–78；人大複印報刊資料B3《邏輯》2025年第4期全文轉載。
  • 2024. Wen-fang Wang, “A Careful Inspection on Priest’s Recent View about Nothing,” Studies in Logic, 17(6), 2024, pp. 1–17.
  • 2024. 王文方，〈哲學中存在著進步嗎？〉，《中國社會科學報》，2024年12月5日；《中國社會科學文摘》，2025年3月20日，頁41–43。 Link
  • 2024. 王文方，〈從事物的虛實看東西方哲學的交會〉，《中國社會科學報》，2024年8月27日。 Link
  • 2024. Cong Wang and Wen-fang Wang, “On Garfield and Priest’s Interpretation of the Use of the Catuskoti in Mūlamadhyamakakārikā,” Asian Philosophy, 34(3), 2024, pp. 199–219. DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2024.2309769. Link
  • 2023. 王文方，〈導言〉，《哲學與文化》「模態認識論」專題，第50卷第9期（總第592期），2023年10月，頁1–4。
  • 2023. 王文方，〈書評：朱迪・珀爾與達納・麥肯齊《解答為何之書—因果新科學》〉，《哲學與文化》，第50卷第9期（總第592期），2023年10月，頁125–130。
  • 2023. 王文方，〈哲學虛無主義—對當代分析哲學的元哲學探索〉，《哲學分析》（CSSCI），2023年第3期（總第79期），頁61–73；《中國社會科學文摘》2023年第11期全文轉載（轉載題名：〈對當代分析哲學的元哲學探索〉）。
  • 2023. 王文方，〈羅素的確定摹狀詞理論及其當代元哲學意涵辨析〉，《湖南科技大學學報（社會科學版）》（CSSCI），2023年第2期，頁37–49；人大複印報刊資料B3《邏輯》2024年第1期全文轉載。
  • 2023. 徐超、梁飛、王文方，〈邏輯與人工智慧〉，王一奇編，《華文哲學百科》，2023年2月28日。 Link
  • 2023. 王文方，〈對哲學的與邏輯的反例外論的質疑〉，《哲學與文化》（A&HCI），第585期，2023年2月24日，頁43–60。
  • 2022. 王文方，〈書評：徐敏著《虛構對象的形上學》〉，《認知科學》（中文版），16(2)，2022，頁346–349。
  • 2022. Liang Fei and Wen-fang Wang, “Indicative Conditionals as Epistemic Filter Conditionals,” Studies in Logic (《邏輯學研究》), 15(4), 2022, pp. 1–16.
  • 2022. 王文方，〈堆垛悖論的三值語義多元主義解悖方案—初步的哲學闡釋與形式化工作〉，《邏輯學動態與評論》，第1卷第2輯，南京大學出版社，2022年12月，頁38–61。
  • 2022. 王文方，〈哲學方法論的問題與哲學懷疑論〉，《中國社會科學報》，2022年4月12日，A02版。 Link
  • 2022. Cong Wang and Wen-fang Wang, “On Williamson’s Armchair Philosophical Knowledge,” Sophia, 61, 2022, pp. 737–756. DOI: 10.1007/s11841-022-00908-1. Link
  • 2021. Wen-fang Wang, “Multi-Path vs. Single-Path Replies to Skepticism,” Journal of Philosophical Logic, 51, pp. 383–412 (online 2021). DOI: 10.1007/s10992-021-09635-3. Link
  • 2021. 王文方，〈模態認識論〉，王一奇編，《華文哲學百科》，2021年7月28日。 Link
  • 2021. 王聰、王文方，〈為什麼計算型的弱人工智能不可能成功—彭羅斯論戰羅素與諾維格〉，《科學技術哲學研究》（CSSCI），38(2)，2021年4月，頁46–52。
  • 2020. 王文方，〈對Williamson模態知識方法論的質疑—兼論椅驗知識與先驗知識的差別〉，《哲學與文化》（A&HCI），47(8)，2020年8月，頁41–57。
  • 2020. Hsun-mei Chen and Wen-fang Wang, “One Negation, Two Ways of Using It: Prasajyapratiṣedha in Bhāviveka and Candrakīrti’s Argumentation,” Tetsugaku, 4, 2020, pp. 185–206; reprinted in Min Xu and Ruoyu Zhang (eds.), Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 1, World Scientific, 2024, pp. 131–147. Link
  • 2020. 王聰、王文方，〈我們能夠獲得那些可能性或必然性的知識嗎的知識嗎？—以威廉姆森的觀點為契機〉，《自然辯證法通訊》（CSSCI），42(4)，2020年4月，頁34–41。
  • 2020. 王文方，〈堆垛悖論〉，王一奇編，《華文哲學百科》，2020年3月28日。 Link
  • 2020. Zeqiang Wu and Wen-fang Wang, “Logical Studies in Taiwan,” in Yiu-ming Fung (ed.), Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy of Logic, Chapter 26, Springer, 2020, pp. 525–540. ISBN 978-3-030-29031-3.
  • 2019. 王聰、王文方， “Quine on the Ground of Logical Truths,” Studies in Logic (《邏輯學研究》), 12(3), 2019, pp. 117–132.
  • 2019. 王文方，〈論Pritchard對極端懷疑論悖論的解決方案〉，《哲學與文化》（A&HCI），46(5)，2019年5月，頁35–60。
  • 2019. 王文方，〈印度佛教哲學中的四個無我論證〉，《玄奘佛學研究》，第31期，2019年3月，頁1–26；北京博古睿研究院《萃嶺・觀點》2026年4月23日轉載。 Link
  • 2018. Wen-fang Wang, “The Semantic Paradox,” Chinese Encyclopedia of Philosophy, September 14, 2018. Link
  • 2018. Wen-fang Wang, review of Reflections on the Liar, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, July 21, 2018. Link
  • 2018. Wiebe van der Hoek, Wesley H. Holliday, and Wen-fang Wang, “Logic, Rationality and Interaction (LORI-5): Introduction to the Special Issue,” Journal of Logic and Computation, 28(2), 2018, pp. 265–267. DOI: 10.1093/logcom/exx037. Link
  • 2018. Wiebe van der Hoek, Wesley H. Holliday, and Wen-fang Wang, “Logic, Rationality and Interaction (LORI-5): Introduction to the Special Issue,” Synthese, 195(10), 2018, pp. 4201–4204. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1640-4. Link
  • 2018. Wen-fang Wang, “Three-Valued Semantic Pluralism: A Defense of a Three-Valued Solution to the Sorites Paradox,” Synthese, 195(10), 2018, pp. 4441–4476. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1517-6. Link
  • 2017. Wen-fang Wang, “Multi-Path vs. Single-Path Replies to Skepticism,” in Alexandru Baltag, Jeremy Seligman, and Tomoyuki Yamada (eds.), Logic, Rationality, and Interaction (LORI-6 proceedings), Springer, 2017, pp. 65–78.
  • 2017. Wen-fang Wang, “Introduction: Conditionals,” Studies in Logic, 10(1), March 2017, pp. 1–4.
  • 2016. Wen-fang Wang, “Three-Valued Plurivaluationism: A Reply to Williamson’s Criticisms on the Three-Valued Approach to the Sorites Paradox,” The Philosophical Forum, 47(3–4), 2016, pp. 341–360.
  • 2015. Wen-fang Wang, “Three-Valued Plurivaluationism of Vague Predicates,” in Wiebe van der Hoek, Wesley H. Holliday, and Wen-fang Wang (eds.), Logic, Rationality, and Interaction (LORI-5 proceedings), Springer, 2015, pp. 379–391.
  • 2014. Wen-fang Wang, “Reflection on a Recent Development of Epistemic Logics,” Studies in Logic, 7(4), 2014, pp. 2–14.
  • 2014. Wen-fang Wang, “Yin-Shan-Xiang, Contemporary Logic, and Critical Thinking,” Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 28(4), 2014, pp. 120–125.
  • 2014. Wen-fang Wang, “On Quine’s Attacks on LD in Philosophy of Logic,” Logical Analysis, 5(2), April 2014, pp. 86–94.
  • 2013. Wen-fang Wang, “The Development of Logic in Taiwan and Its Current Problems in Education,” in Meng-yao Peng (ed.), Philosophy of Education 2012, Pro-Ed Publishing Company, 2013, pp. 65–82.
  • 2013. Wen-fang Wang, “On Devitt’s Recent Rebuttal to Putnam,” Journal of Central China Normal University, 1(1), 2013, pp. 123–129.
  • 2013. Wen-fang Wang, “Comments on Vague Classes and a Resolution of the Paradox of to Bald Man” [title as transcribed in CV], in Johan van Benthem and Fenrong Liu (eds.), Logic Across the University: Foundations and Applications, College Publications, 2013, pp. 337–340.
  • 2013. Wen-fang Wang, “Adding Conditionals to a Fixed Point Theory of Truth,” Studies in Logic, 6(3), 2013, pp. 16–29.
  • 2013. Wen-fang Wang, “Abstract/Concrete Object Distinction,” Taiwan University Philosophical Review, 46, 2013, pp. 53–80.
  • 2013. Wen-fang Wang, “Filtering Theories of Truth: Compositionality as a Criterion,” Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 8(1), 2013, pp. 156–170.
  • 2012. Wen-fang Wang, “Fundamental Problems of Classical Dialetheism,” in Ching-hui Su and Meng-yao Peng (eds.), Knowledge and Logic 2012, Pro-Ed Publishing Company, 2012, pp. 3–24.
  • 2011. Wen-fang Wang, review of N. J. Smith’s Vagueness and Degrees of Truth, Taiwan University Philosophical Review, 42, 2011, pp. 153–162.
  • 2011. Huihua Lee and Wen-fang Wang, “Paracocmplete Solutions to the Semanatic Paradoxes” [title as transcribed in CV], in Analytic Philosophy in China 2010, 2011, pp. 1–12.
  • 2011. Wen-fang Wang and Linton Wang, “A Perspective Semantics for Subjunctive Conditionals,” in Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the 13th International Congress, 2011, pp. 7–11.
  • 2011. Wen-fang Wang, “Against Dialetheism,” Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 6(3), 2011, pp. 492–500.
  • 2011. Wen-fang Wang, “On Priest’s Fuzzy Solution to the Sorites Paradox,” Studies in Logic, 4(2), June 2011, pp. 35–51.
  • 2011. Wen-fang Wang, “Theories of Abstract Objects without Ad Hoc Restriction,” Erkenntnis, 74(1), 2011, pp. 1–15.
  • 2010. Wen-fang Wang, “Logic Study in Taiwan in the Past 60 Years,” Studies in Logic, 3(3), 2010, pp. 109–137.
  • 2009. Wen-fang Wang, “Necessary Identity and Qua-Sentences,” Philosophical Research (China), 2009 supplementary issue, pp. 36–46.
  • 2009. Wen-fang Wang, review of Spandrels of Truth, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, November 8, 2009. Link
  • 2008. Wen-fang Wang, “Tarski’s Definition of Truth and Physicalism,” Studies in Logic, 1(1), June 2008, pp. 84–101.
  • 2008. Wen-fang Wang and Linton Wang, “We Need a Unified New Theory for Conditionals,” EurAmerica, 38(1), 2008, pp. 65–102.
  • 2007. Linton Wang and Wen-fang Wang, “Defeasible Reasoning Meets Epistemic Possibilities,” in J. van Benthem, Shier Ju, and F. Veltman (eds.), A Meeting of the Minds: Proceedings of the Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Interaction, College Publications, 2007, pp. 327–332.
  • 2007. Wen-fang Wang, “Meinongian Theories without Ad Hoc Restriction: Taking Two-Modes-of-Predication Approach as an Example,” Soochow Journal of Philosophical Studies, 16, 2007, pp. 111–132; also in The Logica Yearbook 2006, pp. 275–288.
  • 2007. Wen-fang Wang, “Comments on Theories of Subjunctive Conditionals,” Taiwan University Philosophical Review, 33, 2007, pp. 133–182.
  • 2007. Wen-fang Wang and Linton Wang, “Revising Lewis’s Theory of Counterfactual,” Philosophical Research (China), 2007 supplementary issue, pp. 76–79.
  • 2007. Wen-fang Wang, “On Goodman’s Cotenability Theory,” Soochow Journal of Philosophical Studies, 15, 2007, pp. 109–145.
  • 2007. Wen-fang Wang, “Putnam’s Way to Essentialism,” in Epistemology, Proceedings of the XXIst World Congress of Philosophy, Vol. 6, Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2007.
  • 2007. Wen-fang Wang, “Modal Fictionalism and Hale’s Dilemma Against It,” in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Proceedings of the XXIst World Congress of Philosophy, Vol. 5, Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2007.
  • 2006. Wen-fang Wang, review of Yung-Ping Yu’s Generality and Reference: An Examination of Denoting in Russell’s Principles of Mathematics, Soochow Journal of Philosophical Studies, 13, February 2006, pp. 129–160.
  • 2006. Wen-fang Wang, “On Gupta and Belnap’s Revision Theory of Truth,” EurAmerica, 36(1), 2006, pp. 75–120.
  • 2006. Wen-fang Wang, “On Rosen’s Modal Fictionalism,” Taiwan Philosophical Studies, 5, September 2006, pp. 121–151.
  • 2005. Wen-fang Wang, “OK or OK*: Putnam’s Way to Essentialism,” Journal of Philosophical Research, 29, 2005, pp. 237–250.
  • 2005. Wen-fang Wang, “There Is Nothing Wrong with Emperor’s Clothes,” Soochow Journal of Philosophical Studies, 11, February 2005, pp. 27–56.
  • 2004. Wen-fang Wang, “Deflating Meinongianism,” Pre-proceedings of the 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 2004, pp. 403–404.
  • 2003. Wen-fang Wang, “Paraconsistent Logic and the Contradictory View in Chinese Ancient Philosophy,” Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture, 30(12), December 2003, pp. 39–49.
  • 2003. Wen-fang Wang, “Truth in PW and the Solution of Hale’s Dilemma for Modal Fictionalism,” Journal of Philosophical Research, 27, 2003, pp. 329–344.
  • 2002. Wen-fang Wang, “The Real Difficulties of Meinongianism,” Soochow Journal of Philosophical Studies, 7, December 2002, pp. 107–128.
  • 2000. Wen-fang Wang, “Quine on Modality,” Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture, 27(10), October 2000, pp. 931–944.
  • 2000. Wen-fang Wang, “Do We Really Need Possibilia?” Taiwan Philosophical Studies, 3, March 2000, pp. 99–123.
  • 2000. Wen-fang Wang and Chi-chan Chiu, “An Analysis of the Military Public Affairs of the United States of America,” Military Social Science Review, 6, May 2000.