[photo description: photo of Jingyi, who is smiling into the camera in front of an ocean, as the sun sets.]
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I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science (LPS) at UC Irvine. I primarily work on social epistemology and philosophy of physics. I also have interests in general philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, Asian/American philosophy, and mathematical physics. I'm working on two graduate emphases, one in Physics and one in Race and Justice Studies. I'm co-advised by Cailin O'Connor and James Owen Weatherall.
My work focuses on clarifying the structures of our social and physical worlds. As a scientifically-informed philosopher, I do so in two ways. First, I employ network models to address questions such as: How do social identities and social injustice impact knowledge production in a group? Does diversity improve group learning? How do we promote such diversity? This work is at the intersection of social epistemology, network modeling, and the philosophy of race and gender. Second, I use geometric and topological methods to study foundational questions in physics, especially in spacetime theories and statistical mechanics. This work is in the philosophy and foundations of physics. In both areas, I use mathematical tools to think about philosophically interesting questions, and philosophically reflect on the applicability of models that purport to represent or explain reality. Read more about my research here. I'm passionate about structurally shifting academia into a more welcoming space for minoritized populations. I served on the Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) leadership team from 2018-2021, including co-directing it in 2020-21. I designed and am currently chairing the LPS climate committee in 2021-22. I also serve on the Underrepresented Philosophy of Science Scholars (UPSS) Committee at the Philosophy of Science Association. Read more about my service work here. I proposed, designed, and successfully taught a brand-new class on Asian American Philosophy at UC Irvine in Summer 2022. I am quite proud of how it turned out. You can read more about the class and other teaching-related things here. I received my M.A. in Social Science from the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at UC Irvine. Before coming to Irvine, I spent a year as an M.A. student at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. Before that, I received my B.A. from Middlebury College, double majoring in philosophy and mathematics. Here is my CV, and here is my Google Scholar profile. My Erdős number is 3. (Paul Erdős—>James Milne Anderson—>Stephen D. Abbott—>me.) My name (Jingyi Wu) is pronounced roughly as jing-yee woo. I go by Jingyi. My email address is Jingyi.Wu@uci.edu. I use she/her/hers pronouns. |
Upcoming Talks!
September 16-17, 2022 I will present a poster on "Epistemic Advantage on the Margin: A Network Standpoint Epistemology" at the "Trust, Distrust, and Forgiveness" conference at UC Irvine. Here is the poster.
November 11, 2022 I will present my project on "Better than Best: Epistemic Landscape and Diversity of Practice in Science" at the PSA 2022, as part of a symposium on "The Science of Diversity and Diversity in Science" that I organized.
September 16-17, 2022 I will present a poster on "Epistemic Advantage on the Margin: A Network Standpoint Epistemology" at the "Trust, Distrust, and Forgiveness" conference at UC Irvine. Here is the poster.
November 11, 2022 I will present my project on "Better than Best: Epistemic Landscape and Diversity of Practice in Science" at the PSA 2022, as part of a symposium on "The Science of Diversity and Diversity in Science" that I organized.
News!
April 2022 My paper, "Epistemic Advantage on the Margin: A Network Standpoint Epistemology" is recently published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. In it, I use network models to show how marginalized social groups can know more, because their testimony is ignored or devalued. You can read it here (open access).
Nov.-Dec. 2021; April 2022 I received the 2021 Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize in history and philosophy of physics for my paper "Explaining Universality: Infinite Limit Systems in the Renormalization Group Method." The paper was recently published in Synthese. You can read the paper for free here and the jury report here. This paper was also recognized by the Justine Lambert Prize in foundations of science at UC Irvine in April 2022. You can read the news release here.
April 2022 My paper, "Epistemic Advantage on the Margin: A Network Standpoint Epistemology" is recently published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. In it, I use network models to show how marginalized social groups can know more, because their testimony is ignored or devalued. You can read it here (open access).
Nov.-Dec. 2021; April 2022 I received the 2021 Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize in history and philosophy of physics for my paper "Explaining Universality: Infinite Limit Systems in the Renormalization Group Method." The paper was recently published in Synthese. You can read the paper for free here and the jury report here. This paper was also recognized by the Justine Lambert Prize in foundations of science at UC Irvine in April 2022. You can read the news release here.
