Profile

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and a member of the Warwick Mind and Action Research Centre.

My research interests are in philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and epistemology. I am the editor of the 'Delusions', 'Dogmatism', 'Seemings', and 'Location of Pain' categories on PhilPapers, and on the editorial board of Chinese Philosophical Review. I also serve as a PhD Committee Member for a doctoral thesis entitled 'Semantic Relatedness and the Deployment of Visual Attention' at the School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University.

Previously, I held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the Jagiellonian University in Poland, and held a Teaching Fellowship and a Research Assistantship at Warwick.

Research Projects

Principal Investigator.

• Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. Project title: 'Incredible Beliefs: Understanding Clear-Eyed Believing Against the Evidence'. 2024-2027.

Project Member.

• National Social Science Fund of China––Young Scholars Project. Project title: 'A Philosophical Study of Perceptual Biases in Social Cognition'. PI: Jie Lu, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University. 2024-2029.

Journal Articles

7.	(forthcoming). Akratic beliefs and seemings. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
6.	(2025). One-factor versus two-factor theory of delusion: Replies to Sullivan-Bissett and Noordhof. Neuroethics, 18, article 4. This is a peer-reviewed response to a commentary on my 2023 paper in Neuroethics.
5.	(2024). The dark side of clarity. The Southern Journal of Philosophy. 1-15
4.	(2023). Revisiting Maher‘s one-factor theory of delusion. Neuroethics, 16, article 15.
3.	(2023). Can a bodily theorist of pain speak Mandarin?. Philosophia, 51, 261–272.
2.	(2019). Continuing commentary: challenges or misunderstandings? A defence of the two-factor theory against the challenges to its logic. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 24(4), 300-307.
1.	(2016). Delusional beliefs, two-factor theories, and bizarreness. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 11(2), 263-278.

Book Chapters

2.	(commissioned). Measuring delusional experiences. In M. S. Overgaard & A. Kirkeby-Hinrup (Eds.), Subjective Measures in Clinical Contexts. Oxford University Press.
1.	(commissioned). Why rational people obstinately hold onto irrational beliefs: A new approach. In E. Schmidt & M. Grajner (Eds.), Epistemic Dilemmas and Epistemic Normativity. Routledge.

Teaching

I have a wide range of teaching interests, and have been a convenor, lecturer and seminar tutor for 18 different modules at Warwick. The full list is below.

Students interested in these modules are welcome to contact me for general discussions, but for more specific and up-to-date information about a particular module, please reach out to the current teachers.

Convenor & Lecturer

• World Philosophies. (2023/24)

Guest Lecturer

• Philosophy for the Real World: Knowledge, Ignorance, Bullshit. (2021/22, 2022/23)

• Philosophy of Religion (revision session). (2023)

Seminar Tutor (from 2018 to 2024)

Year 1 Modules Introduction to Philosophy (with logic) Logic 1: Introduction to Symbolic Logic Reason, Argument and Analysis Mind and Reality Plato and Descartes Ancient Philosophy Philosophy for the Real World World Philosophies

Honours-Level Modules Ethics Applied Ethics Epistemology Moral Epistemology Philosophy of Religion Making Decisions Philosophical Issues in Behavioural Science History of Modern Philosophy Appearance Matters The Philosophy of Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Email

chenwei.nie@warwick.ac.uk

Office

S2.63

Feedback & Advice Hours

• Please email me to arrange a meeting.

Web

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