General

Jie Fan

Associate Professor

Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;

School of Humanities, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Email:jiefan@ucas.ac.cn


Research Areas

Philosophical Logic (especially Modal Logic, Epistemic Logic), Neighborhood Semantics, epistemology (e.g. the topic of ignorance)

Education

2004.9-2008.7, Hunan Normal University, Bachelor

2008.9-2011.7, Huanan Normal University, Master

2011.9-2015.7, Peking Univeristy, PhD

2013.9-2014.9, LORIA, Visiting Scholar

Publications

   
Papers

      [1] Jie Fan. Axiomatizing Rumsfeld Ignorance. Journal of Philosophical Logic, Oct. 24, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-023-09725-4 (A&HCI)

     [2] Jie Fan. Unknown Truths and Unknowable Truths. In: Alechina, N., Herzig, A., Liang, F. (eds) Logic, Rationality, and Interaction. LORI 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.14329, pp.86–93, 2023. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45558-2_7 (EI)

     [3] Jie Fan. Some notes on dyadic contingency. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 32, pages 209–217, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10849-022-09385-8, May 2023.  (SCI、A&HCI)

     [4] Jie Fan. A Logic of Temporal Contingency. Erkenntnis, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-022-00644-5,         Published online, 22 December 2022. (A&HCI)

 [5] Jie Fan. A logic of von Wright’s deontic necessity. Studies in Logic, 15(3): 1-17, June 18, 2022. (CSSCI) 

    [6] Jie Fan. Unknown Truths and False Beliefs: Completeness and Expressivity Results for the Neighborhood Semantics. Studia Logica, 110: 1–45, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-021-09950-5. (SCI, A&HCI) 

    [7] Jie Fan. Logics of (in)sane beliefs and (un)reliable beliefs. Logic Journal of the IGPL, 30(1): 78–100, Feb. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/jigpal/jzaa052. (SCI)

    [8] Jie Fan. A unified logic for contingency and accident. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 51(4): 693–720, 2022. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10992-021-09647-z   (A&HCI)

    [9] Mo Liu, Jie Fan*, Hans van Ditmarsch, and Lowe Kuijer. Logics for knowability. Logic and Logical Philosophy, 31(3): 385–426, 2022. https://doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2021.018 (Corresponding Author)

 [10] Jie Fan. Two Variants of Noncontingency Operator. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 62 (3): 491 - 525, August 2021. https://doi.org/10.1215/00294527-2021-0025  (SCI、A&HCI)

    [11] Jie Fan, Davide Grossi, Barteld Kooi, Xingchi Su, and Rineke Verbrugge. Commonly knowing whether, In Proceedings of 9th Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications, Edited by: Sujata Ghosh and R. Ramanujam, pp.55-61, 2021. (EI)

    [12] Jie Fan. A logic for disjunctive ignorance. Journal of Philosophic Logic, 50(6):1293–1312, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-021-09599-4, Published online : 10 April 2021. (A&HCI)

 [13] Jie Fan. Bimodal logic with contingency and accident: Bisimulation and axiomatizations. Logica Universalis, 15(2):123–147, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11787-021-00270-9, Published online : 13 March 2021. (SCI)

    [14] Jie Fan. A family of Kripke contingency logics. Theoria, Volume 86, Number 4, 482–499, August 2020. (A&HCI)

 [15] Jie Fan. A family of neighborhood contingency logics, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Volume 60, Number 4, pp. 683-699, October 2019, doi:10.1215/00294527-2019-0025,  https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ndjfl/1570154587.  (SCI、A&HCI)

 [16] Jie Fan. Symmetric contingency logic with unlimitedly many modalities, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Volume 48, Issue 5, pp. 851–866, October 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-018-09498-1.  (A&HCI) 

    [17] Jie Fan. Bimodal logics with contingency and accident. Journal of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 48, Issue 2, pp. 425-445, April 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-018-9470-5. (A&HCI)

 [18] Jie Fan. A modal logic of supervenience, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Vol. 60, Number 2, pp. 283-309, May 2019, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ndjfl/1557129618, doi:10.1215/00294527-2019-0006. (SCI、A&HCI)

 [19] Jie Fan. Strong noncontingency: on the modal logics of an operator expressively weaker than necessity, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Vol. 60, Number 3, pp. 407-435, July 2019. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ndjfl/1562918419, doi:10.1215/00294527-2019-0010. (SCI、A&HCI)

 [20] Jie Fan. A road to ultrafilter extensions. In Dynamics, Uncertainty and Reasoning, B. Liao et al. (eds.), Logic in Asia: Studia Logica Library (pp. 117-133). Springer, Singapore, July 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7791-4_6 

    [21] Jie Fan. Neighborhood Contingency Logic: A New Perspective, Studies in Logic, 11(4), 37–55, Dec. 2018. (CSSCI)  

    [22] Jie Fan, Yanjing Wang and Hans van Ditmarsch. Contingency and Knowing Whether. Review of Symbolic Logic, Cambridge University Press, 8(1): 75-107, March 2015. (SCI、A&HCI)

 [23] Jie Fan and Hans van Ditmarsch. Neighborhood Contingency Logic. In Proceedings of 6th Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA 2015), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 8923, pages 88-99, Springer, January 2015. (Best Paper Award，EI)

    [24] Jie Fan. Distributed knowledge whether (Extended Abstract), In International Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Interaction (LORI), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 10455, pp. 643-647, Sapporo, Japan, September 2017. (EI)

 [25] Jie Fan. Removing your ignorance by announcing group ignorance: A group announcement logic for ignorance. Studies in Logic, 9(4): 4-33, Dec.2016. (CSSCI)

 [26] Jie Fan, Yanjing Wang and Hans van Ditmarsch. Almost Necessary. Advances in Modal Logic, Volume 10, pages 178-196, 2014, College Publications.  (EI)

 [27] Hans van Ditmarsch and Jie Fan*. Propositional quantification in logics of contingency, Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, 26(1), pages 81-102, July 2016.  (Corresponding Author)

 [28] Hans van Ditmarsch, Jie Fan, Wiebe van der Hoek, Petar Iliev. Some Exponential Lower Bounds on Formula-size in Modal Logic. Advances in Modal Logic, Volume 10, pages 139-157, 2014, College Publications. (EI)

 [29] Yanjing Wang and Jie Fan. Conditionally Knowing What. Advances in Modal Logic, Volume 10, pages 569-587, 2014, College Publications. (EI)

 [30] Yanjing   Wang and Jie Fan. Epistemic Informativeness. In Modality, Semantics and Interpretations. Logic in Asia: Studia Logica   Library, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 121-129, 2015. (CPCI-SSH)

 [31] Yanjing Wang and Jie Fan. Knowing That, Knowing What, and Public Communication: Public Announcement Logic with Kv Operators, in Proceedings of 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013), pages 1147-1154, 2013, AAAI press. (EI)

 [32] Philippe Balbiani and Jie Fan. A complete axiomatization of Euclidean strong non-contingency logic, in Proceedings of 12th Tbilisi Symposium of Language, Logic and Computation (TbiLLC), Lagodekhi, Georgia, pp. 43-48, September 2017.

Research Interests

Philosophical Logic, especially Contingency Logic, Epistemic logic

Neighborhood semantics

Dynamic Logic

Conferences

2023.10.26-29, THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGIC, RATIONALITY AND INTERACTION (LORI 2023), oral presentation:“Unknown Truths and Unknowable Truths”

2023.10.20-22, 17th National Conference on Modal Logic, oral presentation: "Fitchean Ignorance and First-order Ignorance: A Neighborhood Look"

2023. 3.25-26, LMAS-2023, oral presentation: "Unknown Truths and Unknowable Truths"

2022.10.28-30, 16th National Conference on Modal Logic, oral presentation: "Logics of non-actual possible worlds" and "Axiomatizing Rumsfeld Ignorance"

2021.12.3-5, 15th National Conference on Modal Logic, oral presentation: "A logic of von Wright's deontic necessity"

2021.11.20, Special session of Logic Forum of Academic Frontier Forum of Beijing Federation of Social Sciences, oral presentation: "Axiomatizing Ignorance"

2019.6.22, Modal Logic Workshop, oral presentation: "Two variants of noncontingency operator", Peking University.

2018.10.26-28,  NCML, oral presentation: "Bimodal logic with contingency and accident: Bisimulation and van Benthem Characterization Theorems", Xiamen University.

2018.8.13-20, WCP, oral presentation: "Modalities in a logic of accidental truths", Peking University.

2018.6.16-17, CLAR2018, oral presentation: "A road to ultrafilter extensions", Zhejiang University.

2018.3.24, Delta 8 Logic Workshop, oral presentation: "On axiomatizations of contingency logic", Zhejiang University.

2017.10.20-22, NCML, oral presentation: "Neighborhood Contingency Logic: A New Perspective", Zhejiang University.

2017.9.11-14, LORI, oral presentation:"Distributed Knowledge Whether", Hokkaido Univeristy, Japan.

2017.5.13-14,  Modal Logic Workshop, oral presentation: "Contingency, Ignorance, and Supervenience", Zhejiang University.

2015.11.26日, Logic, Language, and Cognition, oral presentation: "Neighborhood Contingency Logic", Beijing Normal University.

2015.1.5- 10, ALC & ICLA, oral presentation: "Neighborhood Contingency Logic", IIT Bombay, India.

2014.11.29, Development of Logic and Social Interaction, oral presentation: "Contingency and Knowing Whether", Beijing Normal University.

2014.10.25-26, NCML, oral presentation: "Almost Necessary", Beijing Normal University.

2014.8.5-8, AiML,oral presentation: "Almost Necessary", University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

2014.8.11-22, ESSLLI, Tubingen University, Germany.


Honors & Distinctions

"Neighborhood Contingency Logic", Best Paper Award, ICLA, Jan. 2015.