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Haodong Lyu

Graduate Student

Research Interests

  • Moral psychology
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of psychology and mind
  • Metaphysics

Research Description

I am especially interested in topics relevant to self, especially concerning puzzling phenomena (e.g., emotions and actions that are hard to make sense of, and various psychological biases). I am currently working on self-blame and grief. One paper that I am writing now discusses a sort of inappropriate self-blame that arises in grief. 

Other projects that I can imagine myself working on in the near future are what grieving fictional characters can tell us about the nature of grief, how undergoing transformative experience can affect our practices of self-blame, whether inappropriate self-blame can be good for our well-being, and the epistemic and ethical implications of knowing our cognitive biases, etc. 

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Urban Planning, South China University of Technology, China

Master of Philosophy in Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, China,

Master of Arts in Philosophy, Western Michigan University

Courses Taught

Intro to Philosophy 

Intro to Contemporary Ethics 

(both at Western Michigan University)