Education

September, 2010 – March, 2016      Nanjing University

Degree and major: PhD, Philosophy of science and technology

Dissertation: A Hierarchical Model of Information and its Philosophical Implications

August, 2013 – July, 2018                  Copenhagen Business School

Visiting PhD researcher

September, 2006 – June, 2010  Jiangnan University

Degree and major: Bachelor, Political administration 

Work Experience

2016.7 - 2020.01 Assistant professor, Department of Philosophy, Nanjing University

2020.02 - Now Associate professor, Department of Philosophy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Areas of Research

Philosophy of Information, Philosophy of Complexity and System Science, Philosophy of Life and Cognition, General Philosophy of Science

1. Liqian Zhou. Information in a physical world: How the meaningless becomes the meaningful. Forthcoming by Routledge.  

2. Li qian Zhou. Life and Mind: Organism, consciousness and representation. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press (in Chinese) (in progress）

3. Liqian Zhou. Social Epistemology, Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2023. (In Chinese) 

4. Terrence Deacon. Incomplete Nature: How mind emerged from matter. Translated into Chinese by Liqian Zhou. Shanghai: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House. (Forthcoming)

Articles,

1. Zhou, LQ. Cybersemiotic exploration of information and the living nature. Cybernetics & Human Knowing. 30(3-4): 53-58, 2023.

2. Zhou, LQ. More Constraint, More Freedom: Revisit semiotic scaffolding, semiotic freedom, and semiotic emergence. Biosemiotics, 16:395-413, 2023. 

3. Zhou, LQ. Structual, referential and normative information. Information & Culture, 56(3), 2021

4. Zhou, LQ. Complimentarity in Information Studies. Synthese. 197(2), 293-310. 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-018-1786-8.  

5. Zhou, LQ. The Communication of Form: Why Cybersemiotic Star is Necessary for Information Studies? In: Vidales, C. and Brier, S. (eds.), Introduction to Cybersemiotics: a transdisciplinary perspective. Berlin: Spinger. 2021：283-300.

6. Zhou, LQ. Biosemiotics as an alternative paradigm for biology. Sign & Media, 17, 2018.(Invited paper)

7. Zhou, LQ. The Metaphysics of Chinese Information Philosophy, Cybernetics & Human Knowing. Vol. 22, No. 1. 2015. 

Book Reviews

5. Zhou, LQ. Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics. Social Semiotics, 28(1), 142-145. 2018.  

6. Zhou, LQ. Semiotics of Mimicry as Puzzle-solving in Biosemiotics. Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 25(1). 2018. 

7. Zhou, LQ.The Self is Less, not More, than Matter. Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 25(2-3). 2018.

8. Zhou, LQ.The Unity of Information Studies through Diversity. Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 25(2-3). 2018.

9. Brier, S. Zhou, LQ. New Paradigm for New Age. Cybernetics & Human Knowing. 21(3). 2014.

10. Zhou, LQ, Brier, S.Philosophy of Information in Chinese Style. Cybernetics & Human Knowing.21(4). 2014. 

Selected conference presentations

1. Zhou, LQ. More constraint, more freedom: revisit semiotic scaffolding, semiotic freedom and semiotic emergence. Gathering to Biosemiotics 2023. Copenhagen, Denmark. Jul. 31-Aug. 5.

2. Zhou, LQ. Mutual misunderstanding in signaling games. 16^thConference of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Prague, Czech, August 5-11, 2019. 

3. Zhou, LQ. On information, Information and information. Proceedings of Where is “I” in AI and meaning in information, IS4SI, summit, UC Berkeley, 2019. 

4. Zhou, LQ. Conventionality and mutual misunderstanding. Proceedings of Where is “I” in AI and meaning in information, IS4SI, summit, UC Berkeley, 2019. 

5. Zhou, LQ. Is biosemiotics mature? Proceedings of 18^thAnnual Biosemiotics Gathering, UC Berkeley, USA, June 17-20, 2018. 

6. Zhou, LQ. Why Cybersemiotics is Necessary for Information Studies? Proceedings of 13^thIASS-AIS World Congress of Semiotics, Kaunas, Lithuania, 26-30 June, 2017. 

7.  Zhou, LQ. The Consistent Principle of Information, Life and Cognition, Proceedings of THE INFORMATION SOCIETY AT THE CROSSROADS: Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information, IS4IS (International Society of Information Study), Summit, Vienna, 2015.

8. Zhou, LQ. Signal, Code-duality and Information: Information as the Bridge between two Cultures. Civilization at Crossroads: Response and Responsibility of the System Science, Book of Abstract. 2014.