Shanghai jiaotong university institute of humanities

Faculty

Department of Philosophy

Name:Lai Changsheng

Title:Tenured Associate Professor

Email:changshenglai@sjtu.edu.cn

HomePage:https://philpeople.org/profiles/changsheng-lex-lai

Research Expertise:epistemology, philosophy of memory

I am currently working as a Tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I am also the director of the 'Epistemology+' Research Centre of SJTU. I received my PhD degree at the University of Edinburgh. My major research interests focus on epistemology, including epistemology of memory, epistemic gradualism, scepticism, epistemological disjunctivism, anti-luck epistemology, and virtue epistemology.

For more, see http://philpeople.org/profiles/changsheng-lex-lai

ENGLISH PUBLICATION:

• Lai, Changsheng (2026). 'Memory Scepticism and Particularism'. Acta Analytica, 1-18, Online First. (A&HCI)

• Chen, Shufan & Lai, Changsheng (2026). 'Aphantasia Is (Still) a Mental Imagery Condition'. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 5: 4. (ESCI)

• Lai, Changsheng (2025). 'Believe It or Not, Disbelief Remains Mysterious'. Ratio, 38(2): 102-109. (A&HCI)

• Lai, Changsheng (2024). 'Relearning and Remembering: A Gradualist Account'. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 5, 25.

• Lai, Changsheng (2023). 'Remembering Requires No Reliability'. Philosophical Studies, 181: 43-63.（A&HCI)

• Lai, Changsheng (2023). 'Memory Belief Is Weak'. Ratio, 36: 204-214.（A&HCI)

• Lai, Changsheng (2023). 'Memory Scepticism and the Pritchardean Solution'. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2(1): 1-20. (ESCI)

• Lai, Changsheng (2022). 'Remembering Is Not a Kind of Knowing'. Synthese, 200(4): 333.（A&HCI, SCI)

• Lai, Changsheng (2022). 'Epistemic Gradualism Versus Epistemic Absolutism'. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 103(1): 186-207.（A&HCI)

• Lai, Changsheng (2022). 'Memory, Knowledge, and Epistemic Luck'. Philosophical Quarterly, 72(4): 896-917.（A&HCI)

• Lai, Changsheng (2021). 'Against Epistemic Absolutism'. Synthese, 199: 3945-3967.（A&HCI, SCI)

• Lai, Changsheng (2021). 'Is “Knowing that P” Identical with “Knowing that ‘P’ Is True”?'. Philosophia, 48(3): 1075-1092. （A&HCI）

• Lai, Changsheng (2020). 'The Self-Hollowing Problem of the Radical Sceptical Paradox'. Erkenntnis, 85: 1269-1288. （A&HCI）

• Lai, Changsheng (2019). 'My Ordinary Anti-Sceptical Beliefs Are not Insensitive'. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 14(3): 469-489.（ESCI）

Awards & Honors
 2025.12 SJTU Liberal Arts Achievement Library Funding
 2025.12 Top Ten Teachers, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
 2024.10 Second Prize for Teaching Achievements, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
 2024.06 Third Prize in "Teaching and Educating" Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
 2023.06 First Prize, University Teachers' Teaching Innovation Competition of Shanghai
 2022.12 First Prize, Teaching Innovation Competition, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
 2021.11 First Prize, The 5th Young Teachers' Teaching Competition, School of Humanities, SJTU
 2019.06 First Prize for Paper, The 8th Doctoral Academic Forum "The Way of Philosophy", Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University

Talent Programs
 2022 Shanghai High-level Talent Program
 2021 Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program
 2021 Shanghai Chenguang Program

Academic Appointments
 Deputy Secretary-General, Professional Committee on Epistemology, Chinese Society of Modern Foreign Philosophy
 Council Member, Professional Committee on Analytic Philosophy, Chinese Society of Modern Foreign Philosophy
 Director, "Epistemology+" Research Center, School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
 Member, Shanghai Society of Dialectics of Nature
 Member, Professional Committee on Critical Thinking, Chinese Logic Society
 Coach, the Mandarin Debate Team of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
 Coach, the Mandarin Debate Team of University of Edinburgh
 Affiliated Member, Centre for Philosophy of Memory (CPM), Université Grenoble Alpes
 Editorial Board Member, Chinese Philosophical Review
 Editorial Board Member, Chinese Debate and Speech
 Guest Editor, Asian Journal of Philosophy
 Reviewer for journals including Mind, Analysis, Synthese, American Philosophical Quarterly, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Episteme, Philosophia, Philosophical Forum, The International Journal for the Study of Skepticism

Research Grants

 Youth Project of National Social Science Fund of China:
"A Study of Epistemic Gradualism" (22CZX065); 200k RMB
 Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program:
"A Study on the Boundary of Knowledge" (21PJC081); 150k RMB
 Shanghai Chenguang Program:
"A Study on the Paradox of Contemporary Radical Scepticism" (21CGA08); 20K RMB
 SJTU Liberal Arts Research Innovation Cultivation Project:
"A Study on the Qualitative and Quantitative Nature of Propositional Knowledge" (22X020103064); 50K RMB