Bio

I am an assistant professor in philosophy at Peking University, which is also where I received my BA in Law, MA in Philosophy and PhD in Philosophy.

Research Interests:

I work primarily on normativity, including topics such as the varieties of normativity, the priority between value/reason/ought, the possibility of naturalizing normativity, internalism and externalism about reasons, among others. Besides normativity, I take research interests in metaphysics, including all topics in the analytic tradition, and comparative philosophy, with the hope that the native Chinese philosophical tradition can receive the proper attention that it deserves in academia.

Selected Publications [updated in 2023.12]：

“Folk Metaethics and Error,” Philosophical Psychology (2022). Online first.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2139231.

“Metasemantics and Boydian Synthetic Moral Naturalism,” Synthese (2021) 199: 11161–11178.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03283-5.

“Understanding Dao in Methodological Terms,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy (2022) 21: 197-211.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11712-022-09825-z.

“No Case Against Disjunctive Properties,” Philosophia (2021) 49: 2293–2305.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-021-00346-2.

“Engineering Human Beauty with More Caution,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy. (forthcoming).

PhilPeople Page：https://philpeople.org/profiles/xinkan-zhao

Email：zhaoxinkan@pku.edu.cn