Profile

I am a Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and a member of the Warwick Mind and Action Research Centre (WMA). I also serve as a PhD Committee Member at the Research School of Psychology, Australian National University.

My research interests are in philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and epistemology. I am the editor of the "Delusions", "Seemings", and "Location of Pain" categories on PhilPapers.

Teaching

I am the module leader for World PhilosophiesLink opens in a new window (PH150). I also teach seminars for Introduction to Philosophy, Mind and Reality, Plato and Descartes, Ancient Philosophy, and Appearance Matters.

Students who are taking, or interested in taking, these modules are very welcome to get in touch by email.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. (forthcoming). Akratic beliefs and seemings. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
2. (2023). Revisiting Maher’s one-factor theory of delusion. Neuroethics, 16, article 15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-023-09521-6

   • A shorter version for a general audience is posted on Imperfect Cognitions.

   • This paper recently received an intriguing commentary by Ema Sullivan-Bissett and Paul Noordhof (2024). (Replies are on the way.)

3. (2023). Can a bodily theorist of pain speak Mandarin?. Philosophia, 51, 261–272. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-021-00353-3
4. (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. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2019.1652156
5. (2016). Delusional beliefs, two-factor theories, and bizarreness. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 11(2), 263-278. https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-005-016-0020-1

Upcoming talks

• 'Delusion and Experience', The international symposium Engaging Rationality Today, Lille University, France, 22-24 May 2024.
• 'Why Rational People Obstinately Hold to Irrational Beliefs: A New Approach', The 31st Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Université Grenoble-Alpes, France, 2-5 July 2024.
• 'Why Rational People Obstinately Hold to Irrational Beliefs: A New Approach', The 98th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Birmingham, UK, 12-14 July 2024.
• 'Delusion and Experience', Mind, Value and Mental Health: Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School, University of Oxford, UK, 18-19 July 2024.

Peer-reviewed presentations in the past

• ‘The dark side of clarity’. The 97th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Birkbeck and the Institute of Philosophy, University of London, UK, 7-9 July 2023.
• ‘Delusion, two-factor theory and experience’. The 9th Congress of the Society for the Philosophy of Science, University of Paris Nanterre, France, 31 May-2 June 2023.
• ‘Believing what we clearly perceive and being deluded’. The 28th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Leipzig-Online, Germany, 30 August-2 September 2021.
• ‘Jumping to delusions?’. The 27th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Athens, Greece, 5-8 September 2019.
• ‘When is a cognitive system immune to delusions?.’
  • Uniting Two Perspectives on Mental Illness: Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Essex, UK, 13-14 September 2018.
  • Jena Summer Symposia in Philosophy, Institut für Philosophie, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Germany, 17-20 July 2018.
• ‘Delusional beliefs and the origin of their contents’. London-Warwick Mind Forum, King’s College London, London, UK, 6 November 2017.

Email

chenwei.nie@warwick.ac.uk

Office

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