Wen-fang Wang _Professor


Curriculum Vitae | Research | Publications | Supervised Theses | Teaching

Curriculum Vitae

Name: Wen-fang Wang
Mailing Address: Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming University
______________ 11221 Taipei, Taiwan
Webpage: http://www.ym.edu.tw/phil/en/faculty_wang.html

Education:
1991-1996 Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Iowa, USA　　　　　　
__________Dissertation: Nonactualism 　　　　　　
__________Advisor: Panayot Butchvarov 　
1984-1986 M.A., Political Science, Political Warfare College, Taiwan　
1979-1983 B.A., Political Science, Political Warfare College, Taiwan

Academic Positions:
2008- Professor, Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming University, Taiwan
2007- Chief Secretary, National Committee of the Republic of China for the Division of Logic,
_____ Methodology and Philosophy of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.
2005- Adjunct Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Soochow University, Taiwan
2006-2007 Adjunct Associate professor, Philosophy Department, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
2005-2006 Visiting Scholar, Philosophy Department, Indiana University, USA
2003-2008 Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan
2001-2003 Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan
1996-2000 Lt. Col. Instructor, Political Warfare College, Ministry of National Defense, Taiwan

Grants, Fellowships, Developmental Assignments, Honors & Awards:
2011 Research Award, National Science Council
2010 Research Award, National Science Council
2009 Research Award, National Science Council
2008 Research Award, National Science Council
2007 Research Award, National Science Council
2006 Research Award, National Science Council
2005 Short-term Exchange Visiting Scholarship, National Science Council
2005 Research Award, National Science Council
2004 Research Award, National Science Council
2004 Research Award, College of Humanities, National Chung-Cheng University
2003 Research Award, National Science Council
2002 Research Award, National Science Council
1999 Research Award, National Science Council
1998 Research Award, National Science Council

Professional Service:
1) Department and College:
___Member of Hiring and Evaluation Committee, Philosophy Department, CCU, 2006/02-
___Advisor of undergraduate students at CCU, 2004-
___Advisor of graduate students at CCU, 2003-2004 Logic Teaching Committee at CCU, 2000-
___Advisor of undergraduate students at CCU, 2001-2003
___Departmental lectures and arrangements at CCU, 2002
2) Referee/Reviewer:
___Research Award of NSC, 1999.
___Post Doctor Research Project of NSC, 2003, 2004.
___Traveling Award of NSC, 2004, 2007.
___The Hiring Committee of National Taiwan University, 2005.
3) Referee for Professional Journals and Publishers:
___NTU (National Taiwan University) Philosophical Review (1999, 2007).
___Aletheia (2003).
___EurAmerica (2005).
___Soochow Journal of Philosophical Studies (2004, 2005, 2007).
___Jounal of Humanity of Huafan University (2003, 2006).

Membership:
Taiwanese Philosophy Association, 1997-
China Logic Association, 2002-
American Philosophical Association, 2000-
National Committee of the Republic of China for the Division of Logic, Methodology and
__ Philosophy of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science 2003-

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Research

Areas of Specialization: Logic, Modal Logic, Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics
Areas of Competence: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Language

Research Projects:
2010-2012 Paraconsistency vs. Paracompleteness, NSC99 2420-H-194-002
2007-2010 The Concept of Truth and Its Related Programs, NSC96 2420-H-194-008.
2006-2007 Revision Theory of Truth, NSC 95-2411-H-194-002.
2005-2006 Revision Theory of Truth, NSC 94-2411-H-194-008.
2004-2005 Ramsey Test, Belief Revision Model and Conditional Logic, NSC 93-2411-H-194-020.
2003-2004 Ramsey Test, Belief Revision Model and Conditional Logic, NSC 92-2411-H-194-020.
2002-2003 Lewis's Theory of Counterfactuals, NSC 91-2411-H- 194-005.
2001-2002 From Philosophy of Language to Essentialism, NSC 90-2411-H-194-032.
2000-2001 How Do Possible World Models Represent Modal Property: from a Structuralist Point of View,
_________ NSC 89-2411-H-135-001.

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Publications

Refereed Papers:

2011          Wang, Wen-fang and Linton Wang, “A Perspective Semantics for Subjunctive Conditionals,” in Shushan Cai, Guoping Zeng, and Ning Wang (eds.), Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (Proceedings of the 13th International Congress), London: Individual Author and King’s College Publication, pp. 7-11.
2011          Wang, Wen-fang, “Against Dialetheism,” Frontiers of Philosophy in China, Vol. 6, No. 3 (September, 2011), pp. 492-500. (JSTOR)
2011          Wang, Wen-fang, “Theories of Abstract Objects without Ad Hoc Restriction,” Erkenntnis, Vol. 74, issue 1, pp. 1-15. (A&HCI)
2009          Wang, Wen-fang, Book review: “On Spandrels of Truth,” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, (electronic journal, ISBN: 1538-1617), 2009/11/08. Website: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=18007.
2008 Linton Wang and Wen-fang Wang,"We Need a Unified Theory of Conditionals," in American Studies, 38:1, 65-102.
2007 Linton Wang and Wen-fang Wang, "Defeasible Reasoning Meets Epistemic Possibilities," in A Meeting of the Mind -
____ Proceeding of the Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Interaction, edited by J. van Benthem, Shier Ju, and F. Veltman.
____ London: College Publications, 2007, pp. 327-332.
2007 "Meinongian Theories without Ad Hoc Restriction - Taking Two-Modes-of Predication Approach as an Example,"
____ Soochow Journal of Philosophical Studies, No. 16, pp. 111-32. Also collected in The Logica Yearbook 2006,
____ edited by Tomala Ondrej and Radek HOnzik, Prague: Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech
____ Republic, pp. 275-288.
2007 "Comments on Theories of Subjunctive Conditionals," National Taiwan University Philosophical Review, No. 33,
____ pp. 133-82.
2007 Wen-fang Wang and Linton Wang, "Revising Lewis's Theory of Counterfactual," Philosophical Research (China),
____ 2007 supplemental issue, pp. 76-9. 2007 "On Goodman's Cotenability Theory," Soochow Journal of Philosophical
____ Studies,No. 15, pp. 109-45.
2007 "Putnam's Way to Essentialism," in Epistemology, Volume 6 of the Proceedings of XXIst World Congress of Philosophy, ____ edited by Dermot Moran and Stephen Voss. Ankara: Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2007.
2007 "Modal Fictionalism and Hale's Dilemma Against It," in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Volume 5 of the Proceedings
____ of XXIst World Congress of Philosophy, edited by Stephen Voss, Berna Kilnc, and Gurol Irzik. Ankara: Philosophical
____ Society of Turkey, 2007.
2006 "Book Review: On Dr. Yung-Ping Yu's Generality and Reference: An Examination of Denoting in Russell's Principles of
____ Mathematics," Soochow Journal of Philosophical Studies, No. 13, February, 2006, pp. 129-160.
2006 "On Gupta and Belnap's Revision Theory of Truth," EurAmerica, Vol. 36, No. 1, December, 2006, pp.75-120.
2006 "On Rosen's Modal Fictionalism," Taiwan Philosophical Studies, No. 5, September, 2006, pp. 121-151.
2005 "OK or OK* - Putnam's Way to Essentialism," Journal of Philosophical Research, vol. 29, pp. 237-250.
2005 "There Is Nothing Wrong with Emperor's Clothes," Soochow Journal of Philosophical Studies, No. 11, February,
____ 2005, pp. 27-56.
2004 "Deflating Meinongianism," Pre-proceedings of the 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel:
____ the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, pp.403-4.
2003 "Paraconsistent Logic and the Contradictory View in Chinese Ancient Philosophy," Monthly Review of Philosophy and
____ Culture: Special Issue on Chinese Philosophy, No. 12, vol. 30, December 2003, pp. 39-49. 2003 "Truth in PW and
____ the Solution of Hale's dilemma for Modal Fictionalism," Journal of Philosophical Research, vol. 27, 2003, pp. 329-44.
2002 "The Real Difficulties of Meinongianism," Soochow Journal of Philosophical Studies, No. 7, December 2002, pp. 107-28.
2000 "Quine on Modality," Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture, No. 10, vol. 27, October 2000, p. 931-44.
2000 "Do We Really Need Possibilia?" Taiwan Philosophical Studies, No. 3, March 2000, pp. 99-123.
1996 Ph. D. Dissertation: Non-Actualism, University of Iowa, 1996.

Conference Papers:
2009 Wen-fnag Wang, “A, as an S, is F. ” Workshop of Yang-Ming University and Soochow University on Philosophy --
____ Metaphysics , Taipei, Taiwan, May 2, 2009.
2009 Wen-fnag Wang, “Necessary Identity and Contingent Identity.” The 5th China Analytic Philosophy Conference,
____ held by Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, April 11-12, 2009.
2007 Wen-fnag Wang, "On Ockham's New Razor," 4th Conference on Experience and Truth, Nov. 9-10, 2007,
____ National Taiwan University.
2007 Wen-fang Wang and Linton Wang, "A Three-Valued Perspective Semantics of Conditionals," in XIII International
____ Congress of LMPS 07, section Philosophical Logic, August 9-15, 2007, Beijing, China.
2007 Linton Wang and Wen-fang Wang, "Defeasible Reasoning Meets Epistemic Possibilities," in Workshop on Logic,
____ Rationality and Interation, held by Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, August 5-9, 2007.
2007 Wen-fang Wang and Linton Wang, "A Three-Valued Perspective Semantics of Conditionals," in Many-Valued Logics
____ and Cognition - Studia Logica International Conference Trends in Logic V, held by Studia Logica, Guangzhou, China,
____ July 6-9, 2007.
2007 Wen-fang Wang, invited speech, "Meinongian Theories without Ad Hoc Restriction - Taking Two-Modes-of Predication
____ Approach as an Example," in 2007 Soochow International Conference on Analytic Philosophy, held by Soochow
____ University, Taipei, June 20-23, 2007.
2007 Wen-fnag Wang, "On Ockham's New Razor," in Preliminary Symposium Realism vs. Anti-Realism: Essence and
____ Universal, held by Soochow University, Taipei, June 23, 2007.
2007 Wen-fang Wang and Linton Wang, invited speech, "Perspective and Conditionals," The 6th International Conference on
____ Logic and Cognition, June, 16, 2007, Zhongshan University, China.
2007 Wen-fang Wang and Linton Wang, "We Need a Unified Theory of Conditionals," Taiwan's LMPS Conference, April, 28,
____ 2007 at National Taiwan Unviersity, Taiwan.
2007 "Perspectives and Conditionals," The 3rd China Analytic Philosophy Conference, March, 23-4, 2007 at Wu-han University,
____ China.
2006 Wen-fang Wang and Linton Wang "A New Semantics for Subjunctive Conditionals," 3rd Conference on Experience and
____ Truth, November 24-25, Soochow University.
2006 Linton Wang & Wen-fang Wang, "Implicature and Defeat," 3rd Conference on Experience and Truth, November 24-25,
____ Soochow University.
2006 Wen-fang Wang and Linton Wang, "Revising Lewis's Theory of Counterfactuals," The Second Taiwan-China Logic
____ Conference, Oct. 28-30, 2006 at Najing University (China).
2006 Linton Wang and Wen-fang Wang "A Logical Investigation on the Cancellation of Implicatures," The Second Taiwan-China
____ Logic Conference, Oct. 28-30, 2006 at Najing University, China.
2006 "Meinongian Theories Without Ad Hoc Restriction - Taking Two-Modes-of-Predication Approach as an Example,"
____ 20th Symposium of Logica 2006, June 19th-23th, 2006, Hejnice, Czech Republic.
2006 Invited speech: "Meinongian Theories Without Ad Hoc Restriction - Taking Two-Modes-of-Predication Approach as an
____ Example," The 5th International Conference on Logic and Cognition, May, 29-30, 2006, Zhongshan University, China.
2005 "On Gupta and Belnap's Revision Theory of Truth," The 2nd Conference on Experience and Truth, June 24-25, 2005,
____ National Taiwan University.
2005 "Ockham's New Razor," The 4th International Conference on Logic and Cognition, June, 13-17, 2005, Zhongshan
____ University, China.
2005 "On the Revision Theory of Truth," The 1st Conference on Experience and Truth, March 2005, National Taiwan
____ University.
2004 "Deflating Meinongianism," 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium, section Intentionality, Reference and Meaning,
____ August 8th-14th, 2004, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria.
2004 "There Is Nothing Wrong of the Emperor's Clothes," Soochow University Philosophy Conference: Issues in Contemporary
____ Epistemology, June 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.
2004 "There Is Nothing Wrong of the Emperor's Clothes," The 3rd International Conference on Logic and Cognition,
____ May, 20-21, 2004, Zhongshan University, China.
2003 "A Model-Theoretic Argument against Meinongianism and Modal Realism," XII International Congress of LMPS 03,
____ section Philosophical Logic, August 6-13, 2003, Oviedo, Spain.
2003 "Putnam's Way to Essentialism," XXIst World Congress of Philosophy, section Philosophy of Language, August 10-17,
____ 2003, Istanbul, Turkey.
2003 "Modal Fictionalism and Hale's Dilemma Against It," XXIst World Congress of Philosophy, section Logic and
____ Philosophy of Logic, August 10-17, 2003, Istanbul, Turkey.
2003 "A Model-Theoretic Argument against Meinongianism and Modal Realism," Taiwan Congress of LMPS, June 2003,
____ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
2002 "A Model-Theoretic Argument against Meinongianism and Modal Realism," 2002 Annual Conference of Taiwan
____ Philosophical Association, December 2002, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
2002 "Lewis's Theory of Counterfactuals," Taiwan-China Logic Conference, June 2002, National Taiwan University, Taipei,
____ Taiwan.
2001 "OK or OK' - Putnam's Way to Essentialism," 2001 Annual Conference of Taiwan Philosophical Association, December
____ 2001, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
2001 "Truth in PW," Workshop on Logic and Computability, June 2001, National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-I, Taiwan.
2000 "A Structuralist view on Modality - An Introduction to Koslow's Structuralist Theory of Logical Operators," 2000 Annual
____ Conference of Taiwan Philosophical Association, December 2000, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.
1999 "Quine on Modality," 1999 Annual Conference of Taiwan Philosophical Association, December 1999, Academia Sinica,
____ Taipei, Taiwan.
1999 "Modal Fictionalism Reconsidered," 7th Asian Logic Conference, June 1999, National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-I,
____ Taiwan.
1998 "Do We Really Need Possibilia?" 1998 Annual Conference of Taiwan Philosophical Association, December 1998,
____ National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
1998 "Modal System A," 3rd Conference in Information-Theoretic Approaches to Logic, Language, and Computation,
____ June 1998, National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-I, Taiwan.
1997 "Modal System A,"1997 Annual Conference of Taiwan Philosophical Association, November 1997, Academia Sinica,
____ Taipei, Taiwan.
1997 "Modalism and Modal Fictionalism," South Taiwan Philosophy Conference, September 1997, National Chung-Cheng
____ University, Chia-I, Taiwan.

Other Publications:
2007 Introduction to Metaphysics. Taipei: San-ming Publisher, forthcoming.
2007 Translation: Strawson's Individuals, forthcoming.
2005 What Kind of World Is It?-A Study of Metaphysics. Taipei: San-ming Publisher, September 2005.
2002 Translation: The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Owl Publishing Company. (159 entries, more than 100,000 words)
2000 "An Analysis of the Military Public Affairs of the United States of America," Public Affairs in US Army,"
____ co-author with Chi-chan Chiu, Military Social Science Review, No. 6, May 2000.
1999 Translation: Field Deception, Published by Ministry of National Defense.

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Supervised Theses

1. Sue, Peter, Proper Names and Reference, M. A. Dissertation, June 2003.
__ (1st Prize Award for Master Thesis, Taiwanese Philosophy Association, 2003.)
2. Wang, Leonard, Parsons's Meinongian Theory, M. A. Dissertation, June 2003.
3. Jan, Tony, Universals and Realism, M. A. Dissertation, July 2007.
4. Liu, James, Indicative Conditionals, M. A. Dissertation, July 2007.
__ (2nd Prize award for Master Thesis, Taiwanese Philosophy Association, 2007.)
5. Yu, Shei-shen, Conditional Logic, M. A. Dissertation, Jan. 2007.
6. Dai, An-bang, Knowledge Closure, M. A. Dissertation, in progress. (Jointly instructed)
7. Su, Gracy, "Is Consciousness Experience Content a Neural State Or a Functional State?"
__ Ph. D. Dissertation, in progress. (Jointly instructed)
8. Sue, Peter, A Study of Conditionals, Ph.D. Dissertation, in progress.
9. Kan, Li-shao, Logical Truths, M. A. Dissertation, in progress. (Jointly instructed)
10. Du, Cheng-chan, Identity and Counterpart Theory, M. A. Dissertation, in progress.

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Teaching

1. Logics of Conditionals, Fall 2002 (for Graduate School) at National Chung-Cheng University.
2. Logic, Fall 2000, 2001 and 2002 at National Chung-Cheng University.
3. Philosophical Logic, Spring 2002 (for Graduate School) at National Chung-Cheng University,
__ Spring 2005 (for Graduate School) at Soochow University, 2007 at National Chung-Cheng University.
4. Philosophy of Language, Spring 2002 at National Chung-Cheng University.
5. History of Logic, Fall 2001at National Chung-Cheng University.
6. History of Chinese Logic Thought, Fall 2001 at National Chung-Cheng University.
7. Modal Logic, Spring 2001 (for Graduate School) at National Chung-Cheng University.
8. Logic (for General Education), Fall 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006 and 2007, Spring 2001, 2002 2006
__ and 2007 at National Chung-Cheng University.
9. Metaphysics, Spring 2000 (for General Education), Spring 2003, 2004 and 2005,
__ Fall 2004 (for Graduate School), Spring 2005, 2006, Fall 2007 at National Chung-Cheng University.
10. Seminar on Metaphysics, Spring 2005 at National Chung-Cheng University.
11. The Study of Metaphysical Problem, Fall 2004 at National Chung-Cheng University.
12. Critical Thinking, Fall 1999 (for General Education) at National Chung-Cheng University.
13. 20th Century Analytical Philosophy, Spring 2003 at National Chung-Cheng University.
14. Non-Classical Logic, Spring 2003, Spring 2004 (for Graduate School), National Chung-Cheng University,
___ Fall 2006 (for Graduate School) at National Taiwan University, Spring 2007 (for Graduate School) at Soochow University.
15. Meinongianism, Spring 2003 (for Graduate School) at National Chung-Cheng University.
16. Seminar of Philosophical Logic: Logical Consequence, Fall 2003 (for Graduate School) at National Chung-Cheng University.
17. Metalogic, Fall 2003 at National Chung-Cheng University. Spring 2005 (for Graduate School) at Soochow University.
18. Frege, Spring 2004 at National Chung-Cheng University.
19. The Study of Ifs, Spring 2005 and 2007 (for Graduate School), Fall 2007 at National Chung-Cheng University.
20. Logic and Cognition, Spring 2005 (for Graduate School) at National Chung-Cheng University.
21. Paradoxes, Spring 2005, Fall 2006 at National Chung-Cheng University.
22. Theories of Truth, Fall 2006 (for Graduate School) at National Chung-Cheng University.
23. Intensional Logic and Theory of Types, Fall 2007 (for Graduate School) at Soochow University.
24. Tarski, Liar's Paradox and Minimalism, Spring 2007 (for Graduate School) at National Chung-Cheng University.
25. Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, Spring 2007 (for Graduate School) at National Taiwan University.
26. Theories of Reference, Fall 2007 at Soochow University.
27. Theories of Conditionals, Fall 2007 (for Graduate School) at Soochow University.
28. Advanced Logic. Fall 2007 at Soochow University.
29. Indicative Conditionals and Its Related Philosophical Issues. Fall 2007 (for Graduate School)
___ at National Chung-Cheng University.

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