Chang Liu is interested in the issues at the intersection between Philosophy of Language and Ethics. His research focuses on 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 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

· 2022. “蔑称的言语行为理论” (A Speech Act Theory of Slurs). 现代哲学 (Modern Philosophy). (5), 75-81.

· 2021. “Toward a Theory of Offense: Should You Feel Offended?” Philosophy. 96(4), 625-649.

· 2021. “The Derogatory Force and the Offensiveness of Slurs”. Organon F. 28 (3), 626–649.

· 2021. “Slurs as Illocutionary Force Indicators.” Philosophia. 49(3), 1051-65.

· 2020. “Slurs and Register: A Case Study in Meaning Pluralism”. Mind and Language. 35(2), 156-182. Co-authored with Justina Diaz-Legaspe & Robert J. Stainton.

· 2019. “Slurs and the Type-Token Distinction of Their Derogatory Force”. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio. 13(2), 63-72.

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)