Zhenhua Yu
Adjunct Instructor
social
Shanghai University
China
Biography
Yu Zhenhuais an Adjunct Instructor at NYU Shanghai. He is Professor of the Department of Philosophy at East China Normal University (ECNU). First Ph.D., ECNU, 1998; Second Ph.D., University of Bergen, Norway, 2006. He has been teaching at NYU Shanghai since 2013. Prof. YU’s main fields of interest are epistemology, metaphysics, and comparative philosophy. His Chinese publications include How is Metaphysical Wisdom Possible? (2000, 2015), The Tacit Dimension of Human Knowledge (2012), and dozens of articles in Chinese academic journals. His English publications appear in journals such as International Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy Today, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, etc. Prof. YU is a Yangtze River Scholar, Ministry of Education of China; Fulbright research scholar, New York University (2016-2017); visiting scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute (2006-2007); co-director of Knowledge and Action Lab, Joriss, between ECNU and Ecole Normale Superieure/Lyon, France.
Research Interest
epistemology, metaphysics, and comparative philosophy
