CHEN Bo, PhD (Renmin University of China, 1994), now a chair professor of humanities and social science, School of Philosophy, Wuhan University (from September, 2021). He is a titular member of IIP: Institut International de Philosophie (Paris, 2018, election) and a titular member of AIPS: Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences (Bruxelles, 2021, election). He had been a full professor for 23 years at Department of Philosophy, Peking University (1999 –2021).

He was a visiting scholar at University of Helsinki, Finland, August 1997–August 1998, invited by Professor Georg Henrik von Wright; a CSCC Fellow at University of Miami, USA, February 2002–February 2003, awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Academy of Sciences, the Social Science Research Council, invited by Professor Susan Haack; an academic visitor at University of Oxford, UK, August 2007–August 2008, invited by Professor Timothy Williamson; a visiting scholar at Nihon University, Japan, invited by Professor Takashi Iida, the whole year of 2014.

His specialty and competence cover logic and analytic philosophy, especially philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, history of logic, theory of knowledge, American pragmatism, Hume, Frege, Russell, Quine, and Kripke. He also does comparative study of Chinese philosophy with Western philosophy. His most important Chinese academic books include: Dialogue, Communication and Participation: Stepping into International Community of Philosophy (2020), Analytic Philosophy: Critique and Construction (two volumes, 2018), Studies on Paradoxes (2014), Studies on Philosophy of Logic (2004, the revised and enlarged edition, 2013), and Studies on Quine’s Philosophy: From Logical and Linguistic Points of View (1998). He also published several influential logic books in China (popular and textbook). He has published more than 200 Chinese referred papers in good Chinese journals.

He also has published more than 30 referred English papers in A&HCI journals of logic and philosophy since 2009. See his Academia page:

https://whu.academia.edu/ChenBo  

https://philpeople.org/profiles/bo-chen-2.

The complete list of his refereed English (especially A&HCI) papers: 

1. CHEN Bo. 2025. Quine’s Naturalism: Clarification and Vindication, in The Relevance of Judgment for Philosophy of Science, edited by Jure Zovko. Comptes Rendus de l’Acad′emie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences 4 (2025), Münster: Lit Verlag, pp.17-48.

2. CHEN Bo. 2025. Why do we “must” and “should”: Bridging the gap from “is” to “ought,” Social Science in China (Routledge), 46(2): 41-56.

3. CHEN Bo. 2025. The KK Principle and The Strong Notion of Knowledge: Hintikka’s Arguments for KK Revisited, History and Philosophy of Logic, (A&HCI) 46(1): 144-160.

4. CHEN Bo. 2024. A clarification and defense of Quine’s naturalism, Journal of Chinese Philosophy (A&HCI), 51: 71–87.

5. CHEN Bo. 2024. Logical Exceptionalism: Development and Predicaments, Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy (A&HCI), 90: 295–321.

6. CHEN Bo, 2023. How to account for the falsehood of an affirmative proposition and the truth of a negative proposition, Global Philosophy (A&HCI) 33 (4): 1-26.

7. CHEN Bo, 2023. New correspondence theory of truth without the concept of fact, Philosophical Forum (A&HCI) 54 (4): 261-286.

8. CHEN Bo, 2023. Logical Exceptionalism and Its Predicaments, Universitas-Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture (A&HCI), 50 (2): 3-21. [In Chinese]

9. CHEN Bo, 2022. Philosophy as a Cognitive Enterprise, in Interpretations of a Common World: from Antiquity to Modernity：Essays in honor of Jure Zovko, Evandro Agazzi, Andreas Arndt and Hans-Peter Grosshans (Hg./Ed.), Münster: Lit Verlag, pp.257-291.

10. CHEN Bo, 2022. 70 Years of Logic in China: 1949-2019. Asian Studies, X(2): 19-79.

11. CHEN Bo and Jan Vrhovski, 2022. History of Logic in Contemporary China (1949–2021), Asian Studies, X(2): 11-14.

12. CHEN Bo and Jan Vrhovski, eds. 2022. Special Issue on History of Logic in Contemporary China, Asian Studies (A&HCI Emerging Sources), X(2): 1-404.

13. CHEN Bo, 2021. Russell and JIN Yuelin on Truth: A Comparative Study, Contemporary Chinese Thoughts (A&HCI, Taylor & Francis), 52(1-2): 43-76.

14. CHEN Bo, 2020. Quine’s Disquotationalism: A Variant of Correspondence Theory of Truth, The Philosophical Forum (A&HCI) 51(2): 93-113.

15. CHEN Bo, 2019. Russell and JIN Yuelin on Fact: From the Perspective of Comparative Philosophy, Philosophy East and West (A&HCI), 69 (4): 929-950.

16. CHEN Bo and LIU Jingxian, 2019. Hume’s Conceivability Arguments Reconsidered, Axiomathes (A&HCI), 29: 541-559.

17. Gila Sher and CHEN Bo, 2019. Foundational Holism, Substantive Theory of Truth, and a New Philosophy of Logic: Interview with Gila Sher by Chen Bo, The Philosophical Forum (A&HCI), 50 (1): 3-57.

18. CHEN Bo, 2018. Two Different Approaches to Philosophy: A Critical Reflection on Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, Asian Philosophy (A&HCI), 28(3): 197-214.

19. CHEN Bo, 2018. Wisdescopism and Caplan’s “Against Widescopism”, The Philosophical Forum (A&HCI), 49(2): 245-259.

20. CHEN Bo, 2018. A Look Back at the Development of Chinese Logic since 1978, Frontier of Philosophy in China, 13(4): 662–682.

21. XU Zhaoqing & CHEN Bo, 2018. Epistemic Logic with Evidence and Relevant Alternatives, in Hans van Ditmarsch and Gabriel Sandu (eds.), Jaakko Hintikka on Knowledge and Game-theoretical Semantics, Springer, pp.536-555.

22. CHEN Bo, 2017. Reformulation of Frege’s Theory of Thought, The Philosophical Forum (A&HCI), 48 (2):143-159.

23. CHEN Bo, 2016. Against Williamson’s Arguments about Bivalence. The Philosophical Forum (A&HCI), 47(3-4): 325-340.

24. CHEN Bo, 2016. Socio-historical Causal Descriptivism: A Hybrid and Alternative Theory of Names. Croatian Journal of Philosophy (A&HCI), XVI (46): 45-67.

25. CHEN Bo, 2016. When a Young Chinese Scholar met von Wright¼, Acta Philosophica Fennica, Vol.92: 9-32.

26. CHEN Bo, 2015. Social Constructivism of Language and Meaning, Croatian Journal of Philosophy (A&HCI), XV (43): 87-113.

27. CHEN Bo, 2015. Two Important Questions about Hume’s Philosophy, Universitas-Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture (A&HCI), 2015 (8): 3-24. [In Chinese]

28. CHEN Bo, 2014. Six Groups of Paradoxes in Ancient China, From the Perspective of Comparative Philosophy, Asian Philosophy (A&HCI), 24 (4): 363-392.

29. CHEN Bo, 2014. The Nature of Logical Knowledge, An Unfinished Agenda of Quine’s Philosophy, The Philosophical Forum (A&HCI), XLV (3): 217-249.

30. CHEN Bo, 2013. Kripke’s Semantic Argument against Descriptivism Revisited, Croatian Journal of Philosophy (A&HCI), XIII (39): 421-445.

31. CHEN Bo, 2013. Kripke’s Epistemic Argument against Descriptivism Reconsidered, Journal of Chinese Philosophy (A&HCI, Blackwell), 40(3–4): 486–504.

32. CHEN Bo, 2012. A Descriptivist Refutation of Kripke’s Modal Argument and of Soames’s Defense, Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy (A&HCI), 79(3): 225-260.

33. CHEN Bo, 2012. Justification of Induction: Russell and Jin Yuelin. A Comparative Study，History and Philosophy of Logic (A&HCI), 33 (4): 353-378.

34. CHEN Bo, 2011. Proper Names, Contingency A Priori and Necessity A Posteriori, History and Philosophy of Logic (A&HCI), 32 (2): 119–138.

35. CHEN Bo, 2011. An Interview with Timothy Williamson, Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy (A&HCI), 77 (1): 4–31.

36. CHEN Bo, 2009. Xunzi’s Politicized and Moralized Philosophy of Language, Journal of Chinese Philosophy (A&HCI, Blackwell), 36 (1): 107-140.

37. CHEN Bo, 2007. Intellectual Journey: An Interview with Susan Haack, in Cornelis de Wall (ed.), Susan Haack: A Lady of Distinction, the Philosopher Responds to Her Critics, New York: Promethius Books, pp.17-37.

38. CHEN Bo and et al, 2010. Frege, His Logic and His Philosophy: Interview with Michael Beaney, Journal of the Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University, Japan, Vol.5: 1-28.

39. CHEN Bo, 2014. Refutation of the Semantic Argument against Descriptivism, in ProtoSociology: An international journal and interdisciplinary project, Vol. 31 Language and Value, 17-38, edited by Yi Jiang and Ernest Lepore.

40. CHEN Bo, 2013. To be philosophical, even if one will not be a professional philosopher: The Aim and Mission of Philosophy Education, Frontier of Philosophy in China, Brill, 8(2): 247-257.

41. CHEN Bo, 2013. The Demystification of Frege’s Theory of Thoughts, Politics and Society, Special Issue of Journal of Central China Normal University, 1 (1): 85-122.

42. CHEN Bo, 2012. Introduction: Philosophizing like Dummett, Frontier of Philosophy in China, 7(3): 347-50.

43. CHEN Bo, 2006. The Debate on the Yan–Yi Relation in Chinese Philosophy: Reconstruction and Comments, Frontiers of Philosophy in China, Springer, 1 (4): 539-560.

44. CHEN Bo, 2003. The Epistemic Justification of Deduction, Social Sciences in China, Autumn 2003, 149-157.

In past 30 years, he organized more than ten international conferences separately on Frege, Quine, Kripke, Williamson, Hintikka, Russell, Wittgenstein, Paradoxes, Truth, Modality, Philosophical Education & Contemporary Society, and How to Do Philosophy: Metaphilosophy and Philosophical Methodology, at Peking University.  

He is a member of editorial board of the Series of History of Analytic Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, USA), and of the Series of Philosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives (Rowman and Littlefield), one of four associated editors of the journal Review of Analytic Philosophy (MYU K.K., Japan) (2021--), and a member of editorial board of English journals such as Asian Studies (2022--), Asian Journal of Philosophy (2022--), Distinctio (2022--), Frontier of Philosophy in China (2010--), Studies in Logic (2008--), Philosophies (2023--), Logics (2024--), etc. 

He is a reviewer of internationally well-recognized journals: The Journal of Philosophy, Syntheses, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Theory: Swedish Journal of Philosophy, Dialectica, Dialogue, History and Philosophy of Logic, Axiomethes, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Review of Analytic Philosophy, Asian studies, Asian Journal of Philosophy, Frontier of Philosophy in China, Studies in Logic, etc. 

His Chinese publications have been warmly welcome by Chinese readers. For example, his popular book What is Logic (2002) has been sold more than 200,000 copies, his textbook Fifteen Lectures on Logic (2008) 110,000 copies, textbook Introduction to logic (2003) more than 100,000 copies, academic book Studies on Paradoxes (2014) 45,000 copies.

His publications have won many academic awards from Chinese Ministry of Education, Beijing City Government, Peking University, and others. Taken for examples:

2020. Chinese book: Studies on Paradoxes, the Second-grade Award of Excellent Research Achievement of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Chinese Ministry of Education.

2002. Chinese Book: Studies on Quine’s Philosophy, the Third-grade Award of Excellent Research Achievement of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Chinese Ministry of Education.

2002. Chinese Book: Introduction to Philosophy of Logic, the Second-grade Award of Excellent Textbooks Prize, Chinese Ministry of Education.

2020. Chinese book: Analytic Philosophy: Critique and Construction, the Second-grade Award of Excellent Achievements of Philosophy and Social Science, Beijing City Government.

2016. Chinese Book: Studies on Paradoxes, the Second-grade Award of Excellent Achievements of Philosophy and Social Science, Beijing City Government.

2006. Chinese Book: Studies on Philosophy of Logic, the Second-grade Award of Excellent Achievements of Philosophy and Social Science, Beijing City Government.

2000. Chinese Book: Studies on Quine’s Philosophy, the First-grade Award of Excellent Philosophy and Social Science Achievements, Beijing City Government.

1991. Chinese Paper: On Implication, the Second-grade Award of Excellent Achievements of Philosophy and Social Science, Beijing City Government.

2015. Chinese Book: Studies on Philosophy of Logic, the Second-grade Award of Jin Yuelin Academic Prize.

1995. Chinese Book: Quine, the Third-grade Award of Jin Yuelin Academic Prize (Contemporary Western Philosophy 1984-1994).

1990. Chinese Paper: Critiques of the Theories of Proper Name and General Name, the Third-grade Award of Jin Yuelin Academic Prize (Logic).

2020. Chinese book: Studies on Paradoxes (Second Edition)，Excellent Textbook Award, Peking University

2018. Chinese Textbook: Introduction to Logic, Excellent Textbook Award, Peking University.

2016. Popular Reading: Magic Cube of Thinking: Paradoxes from Philosophers and Mathematicians, Silver Award for the Fourth Excellent Popular Science Books by Chinese Association of Popular Science Writers.

2015. Chinese book: Studies on Paradoxes，Second-grade Prize of Excellent Academic Books from Chinese University Presses.

He has also won several teaching awards from Chinese Ministry of Education and from Peking University, for examples:

2022. His MOOC “Introduction to Logic”, National First-class Courses for Undergraduates, Chinese Ministry of Education.

2020. His MOOC “Paradoxes: Magic Cube of Thinking”, National First-class Courses for Undergraduates, Chinese Ministry of Education.

2020. Annual Excellent Teaching Award, Peking University.

2012. PhD Supervisor Prize of Excellent Dissertation, Peking University.

2012. Selective Course “Introduction to Logic”, the First-grade Prize of Excellent Teaching Achievement, Peking University.