Dr. LEE, Siu Fan
Position
Associate Professor

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Tel
3411-7286

Room
CEC 903

ORCID
0000-0001-8142-307X

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Teaching
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Degrees: BSSc (Hon), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
M.Phil., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
BA (Hon), University of Oxford, U.K.
MA, University of Oxford, U.K.
Ph.D., King's College London, U.K.

Work Experience: Universityof Southampton
University of Hull
University of Exeter
King’s College London
Heythrop College London
Open University (UK)
Lingnan University
City University of Hong Kong
Open University of Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong


Courses Taught: GCVM 1076 Whose Justice? And For Whom?
GFVM 1036 Happiness: East and West
LSE 7120 Critical Thinking for Public Affairs
LSE 7130 Social Justice
RELI 2007Problems of Philosophy
RELI 3007 Philosophy, Meaning and Knowledge
RELI 3065 History of Modern Western Philosophy
RELI 3056 Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and Personal Identity
RELI 3095 Logic and Philosophy of Logic
RELI 3096 Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
RELI 3125 Social Justice, Liberalism and Economic Equality

Teaching Areas: Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Logic
Philosophy of Mind
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Critical Thinking
Analytic Philosophy
Modern Philosophy
Social and Political Philosophy
Ethics
Philosophy of Wittgenstein
Philosophy of Religion


Research Areas: Philosophy of Language; Philosophical Logic; Metaphysics; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Pregnancy, Birth and Early Motherhood

Current Projects: ‘How Proper Names Refer: Is Causal Descriptivism Defensible?’ General Research Fund, Research Grants Council Hong Kong, 1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2020, role: PI.
‘Chinese and Cross-Cultural Health Humanities: Body, Mind, and Well-Being in the Contemporary Context’ (group project), Initiation Grant for Faculty Niche Research Areas (FNRA-IG) 2018/19, Hong Kong Baptist University, 30 June 2019 - 30 June 2021, role: Co-I.

Recent Publications: Philosophy of Names and Empty Names. Under the series of Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, series editor: Piotr Stalmaszczyk. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 200 pages, forthcoming.
Logic: A Complete Introduction. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 12 January 2017, 384 pages. (ISBN: 9781473608436)

Selected Outputs: Two Approaches to Empty Names: An Analysis of Scientific Theoretical Terms’, Studies in Dialectics of Nature, February 2018, Vol. 34 (2): 14-19.
‘Can There Be a Davidsonian Theory of Empty Names?’ in Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations into Proper Names, eds. Piotr Stalmaszczyk & Luis Fernández Moreno, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, February 2016, pp. 203-226. (ISBN: 978-3-631-66265-6)
‘Two Senses of Critical Thinking Teaching: Some Reflections and Experience’, Studies in Logic,December 2014, Vol. 7 (4): 105-116.
‘Who Wants To Be a Russellian About Names?’ in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics: The Legacy of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, ed. Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, March 2014, pp. 161-180. (ISBN: 978-3-11-034275-8)

Selected Conference Presentations: ‘A Survey Report on How Proper Name Refers’, The 5th Philosophy of Language and Mind Network Conference (PLM5), University of St Andrews, UK, 29-31 August 2019.
‘How to Name an Empty Name’, NZAP AAP 2018 Conference, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand, 8-12 July 2018.
‘A Two-Dimensional Semantic Framework for Empty Names’, accepted for Joint Session, organised by Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Oxford, 6-8 July 2018.
‘Metaphysics of Pregnancy, Personal Identity and the Objectification of Women’, Conference for The Philosophy of Pregnancy, Birth, and Early Motherhood, organised in association with SWIP, BUMP & PHILBIRTH, University of Southampton, UK, 21-22 June 2018.
‘The Semantics of Empty Names (II): Counterfactual Reference’, Philosophy of Language (I) Conference: Semantics of Fictional Discourse, Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 20-21 October 2016.
‘Two Approaches to Empty Names’, Conference on Analysis, Practice and Creative Thinking, organised by Macau Chinese Philosophy Association, Macau, 22-24 August 2016.
‘The Semantics of Empty Names’, Joint Session, organised by Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Cardiff University, UK, 8-10 July 2016.
‘The Mozi and Some Western Approaches to Perpetual Peace’, International Conference on Waging Peace and Restraining War, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 22-23 Aug 2013.
‘Two Senses of Critical Thinking Teaching’, The 2013 Cross Strait Conference on Logical and Critical Thinking Teaching, organized by the Institute of Logic and Cognition of Sun Yat-Sen University and the Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities, held at Tong Liao, Inner Mongolia, China, 10-12 August 2013.
‘Who Wants to Be a Russellian About Names?’, The Third International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (PhiLang 2013), University of Lodz, Poland, 9-11 May 2013.
‘Causal Theories of Names’, International Conference on Kripke, Logic, Philosophy, Peking University, China, 2-4 September 2012.
‘On Causal Theories of Names’, Mini-Conference on Michael Devitt, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 3 May 2012.
‘Truth Condition and Empty Names’, Taiwan Logic and Analytic Philosophy Inaugural Conference, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 31 Oct -1 Nov 2009.
‘A Counterfactual Reference Theory’, Joint Session, organised by the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of East Anglia, UK, 10-12 July 2009.
‘Fregean Free Logic’, The 4th Cross Strait Conference on Logic Education and Research, organised by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 24-25 June 2009.
‘A Counterfactual Reference Theory of Fictional Discourse’, The 8th National Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA): Ontology, Mind, and Language, University of Bergamo, Italy, 25-27 September 2008.
‘Empty Names and Free Logic’, Joint Session, organised by the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Aberdeen, UK, 11-13 July 2008.
‘Supervaluation and Fregean Free Logic’, Open Minds Conference, University of Manchester, UK, 9-10 June 2008.

Selected Research Grants: ‘Meaning and Modality: A Foundational Study towards a New Theory of Empty Names’, Early Career Scheme, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council Hong Kong, 2015-2017, role: PI.
‘Fiction and Impossible World’, Faculty Research Grant Category I, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2017-2018, role: PI.
‘Two-Dimensionalism and Epistemic Possibility’, Faculty Research Grant Category I, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2013-2015, role: PI.
‘Meaning and Mind’, Faculty Research Grant Category II, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2012-2016, role: PI.