Xian He

Xian He

Associate Research Fellow

South China Normal University

Research Interests

Epistemology
Ethics
Social Philosophy

About

I am now a tenure-track research fellow at South China Normal University, Guangzhou. I received my Ph.D. from Zhejiang University (2026) and was a visiting student at the University of Zurich (2023-24).

My research focus primarily on epistemology and ethics. I aim to develop a unified pragmatist account of the normativity of mental attitudes, including belief, emotion, and love.

Specific interests in this period:

  • belief and reasons for belief
  • emotion and reasons for emotion
  • emotional and epistemic reliance (attachment) on AI
  • social system and social norm
  • incommensurability and incomparability
  • reasons and fittingness