CV
| 1984-01-07 | Birth in Yichang, Hubei Province, P. R. China |
| 2006 | Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P. R. China |
| 2009 | Master of Philosophy in Logic, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China |
| 2020 | Doctor of Philosophy in Logic, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China |
| 2021- | Assistant editor of East Asian Journal of Philosophy (https://eajp.online) |
| 08/2021 – 12/2022 | Research Fellowship, University of Padua, Padua, Italy |
| 01/2023 - 12/2023 | Thyssen Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany |
| 09/2025– 08/2027 | Walter Benjamin Position, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany |
Publications
1. Rott, H. & Zhu, W. (2025). The Dynamics of Non-Belief (with Modesty). Journal of Philosophical Logic, 54, 399–427. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-025-09789-4
2. Carrara, M., Mancini, F., Pra Baldi, M. & Zhu, W. (2024). A New Game Theoretic Semantics (GTS-2) for Weak Kleene Logics. Studia Logica,112, 1439–1463. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-024-10113-5
3. Carrara, M., Mancini, F., & Zhu, W. (2023). A PWK-style Argumentation Framework and Expansion. Journal of Applied Logics 2631(3), 485, ISBN: 978-1-84890-433-0, https://www.collegepublications.co.uk/ifcolog/?00059.
4. Zhu, W. (2023). A Formal Investigation on Belief, Non-belief and Suspension. Book of Abstracts, 185. Logic Colloquium 2023. https://lc2023.unimi.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/book-of-abstracts-LC2023.pdf.
5. Carrara, M., Mancini, F., Xu, D., and Zhu, W.(2022). TGTS Based Argumentation. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Advances in Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence 2022, Vol-3354. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3354/short5.pdf.
6. Carrara, M., Mancini, F., & Zhu, W. (2022). What Topic for off-topic in WK3?. In Logically Speaking. A Festschrift for Marie Duˇz´ı. 113-128. College Publications. https://www.collegepublications.co.uk/tributes/?00049.
7. Carrara, M., & Zhu, W. (2021). PWK Agent Belief Suspension in Argumentation. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Advances in Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence 2021, Vol-3086, https://ceurws.org/Vol-3086/short5.pdf.
8. Carrara, M. & Zhu, W. (2021). Computational Errors and Suspension in a PWK Epistemic Agent. Journal of Logic and Computation, 31 (7), 1740–1757. https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exab052.
9. Zhu, W. (2020). Arbitrariness and Universal Generalization. Studies in Logic 逻辑学研究, 13 (1), 75–86, https://d.wanfangdata.com.cn/periodical/zsdxxblc202001004.
10. Zhu, Wei, An Investigation on Belief Suspension, Phd thesis, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Projects
08/2021–07/2022
Participant of “Polarization of irrational collective beliefs in post-truth societies (Popolst)”. PI: Massimiliano Carrara, FISPPA Department, University of Padua. The project is granted by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo (Padova, Veneto, IT).
08/2022–12/2022
Participant of “DOR 2022: On Logical Neutrality”. PI: Massimiliano Carrara. The project is granted by the FISPPA Department, University of Padua.
01/2023–12/2023
PI of “Suspension and Computational Errors in Paraconsistent Weak Kleene Belief Update”. The project is funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Cologne, DE), supervised by Prof. Hans Rott (University of Regensburg) and Prof. Hannes Leitgeb (LMU Munich).
09/2025–08/2027
PI of “A Logical Investigation into Suspension”. The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It is hosted by Prof. Hans Rott and Daniel Eggers (University of Regensburg).
Workshops
| August 30 - September 1, 2023 | Trivalent Suspension, Uncertainty and Reasoning with Conditionals (TSUC) “Trivalent Suspension, Uncertainty and Reasoning with Conditionals” at the University of Regensburg, Germany. This workshop is co-organized with Prof. Hans Rott, Dr. Dr. Niki Pfeifer. It is funded by the Regensburg University Foundation Hans Vielberth. |
| May 18 – May 22, 2026 | Co-organizer of the VIU Graduate Seminar "Belief Change and Information Exchange: Current Trends in Epistemic Logic" (https://www.univiu.org/study/graduate-seminars/epistemic-logic) involving Tsinghua University (China), LMU (germany), and the University of Padova (Italy) at the Venice International University in Venice, Italy. |
