汤志恒

姓名：  汤志恒

最高学位： 哲学博士

研究方向： 分析哲学框架下的形而上学

电子邮箱： bilking@live.com

教育背景： 经济学学士 (中国农业大学)， 哲学硕士 (北京大学)， 哲学博士 (University of Reading)

 

主要论著（均为独撰）：

 

学术论文：

(1) “Timeless Causation?”, Acta Analytica 38 (3): 471–479, 2023. 

(2) “We Should Not Be a Counterpart Theorist of Events If We Want to Be a Counterfactual Theorist of Causation”, Theoria 87 (5): 1038–1049, 2021.

(3) “Absence Causation and a Liberal Theory of Causal Explanation”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93 (4): 688–705, 2015.

(4) “什么是时间旅行——略论大卫·刘易斯对‘时间旅行’的定义”，《清华西方哲学研究》2023年第2期，第14–27页。

(5) “同时性因果和物理学论证”，《哲学研究》2022年第4期，第108–117页。

(6) “‘逝度’：对时间流速问题一个探索性的解决方案”，《哲学分析》2021年第5期，第146–159页。

哲普、教学及其他：

(1) “屡次失手做出‘圆的方’”（访谈），《认知科学》2023年第2期，第114–135页。

(2) “论文，不是‘议论文’：大学写作要克服的几个中学写作陋习”，《批判性思维与创新教育通讯》2023年第1期，第29–33页。

(3) “从发现引力波看证实悖论”，《中国社会科学报》2016年总第967期。

 

承担项目（均为负责人）：

1、中国博士后科学基金（一等资助，结项）：“流动时间观研究”.

2、国家社科基金（一般项目，在研）：“大卫·刘易斯反事实条件因果理论研究”.

 

个人简述：

Before coming to IMU I was a Senior Researcher at Shandong University (Qingdao); before that I was an Assistant Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology; before that I was a postdoc at Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University. Before that I did my Ph.D. at the University of Reading, under the supervision of, my fellow fan of the Reading Football Club, David Oderberg. Before that I learned from Chen Jiaying, who taught me that philosophy is a way of life; and from Thomas Hurka, who taught me that philosophy is a discipline. (Their teachings really confuse me as it follows that philosophical life is disciplined!) And before that, as it usually happens when a lover of philosophy is unfortunately majored in counting money, I had to learn by myself.

While I am interested in a wide range of topics in metaphysics (broadly construed in the tradition of analytic philosophy), my recent research has focused on properties, time, and causation. I am glad to work with students who find these areas fun, or boring but, nonetheless, worth examining.

My favorite definition of philosophy is by Anthony Quinton: “Philosophy is thinking about thinking.”

And I am sympathetic with Quentin Smith’s verdict on doing philosophy: “I’d rather fail in doing philosophy than succeed in doing anything else.”