Chang Liu is a Tenure-track Associate Professor of Philosophy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research focuses on the questions at the intersection between Philosophy of Language and Political Philosophy, such as theories of slurs (What makes racial slurs derogatory and offensive?), the ethics of interpretation (What are the fair interpretations of what someone says?), and the moral psychology of offense (Under what conditions is it appropriate to feel offended?). Chang Liu is able to supervise graduate students in philosophy of language.

Chang Liu completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy (2019) at the University of Western Ontario under the supervision of Robert Stainton. Before Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he worked as a Boya Postdoctoral Fellow at Peking University.

For more information, please visit Chang Liu’s personal pages at: www.DrLiuChang.com and PhilPeople

• 2024. “Lexical Silencing: How to Suppress Speech with Negative Words”. Topoi. (AHCI)
• 2024. “为摹状词主义一辩—回应克里普克的挑战”. 《哲学动态》. (10), 81-90. (CSSCI)
• 2022. "蔑称的言语行为理论" . 《现代哲学》. (5), 75-81. (CSSCI)
• 2021. "The Derogatory Force and the Offensiveness of Slurs". Organon F. 28(3), 626–649. (AHCI)[download]
• 2021. "Toward a Theory of Offense: Should You Feel Offended?". Philosophy. 96(4), 625-649. (AHCI)[download]
• 2021. "Slurs as Illocutionary Force Indicators". Philosophia. 49(3), 1051-65. (AHCI)
• 2020. “Slurs and Register: A Case Study in Meaning Pluralism”. Mind and Language. 35(2), 156-182. with Justina Diaz-Legaspe & Robert J. Stainton. (SSCI)
• 2019. “Slurs and the Type-Token Distinction of Their Derogatory Force”. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio. 13(2), 63-72. (ESCI)

RESEARCH GRANTS

· 2022. Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning Project, “Arguments against Descriptivism” (2022EZX001)

· 2022. Shanghai Jiao Tong University "Double First-Class" Starting Research Grant, (WH220509001)

· 2021. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Research Grant, “How Language Expresses Values” (2021M700265)