ADRIAN LIU

adrian.liu [at] rutgers.edu | [cv] | [philpeople]

I'm a PhD candidate at Rutgers Philosophy. I work on epistemic questions with political implications. My published research is about higher-order uncertainty and belief polarization, and my current research is about how rational agents should revise their beliefs when they revise their concepts. I also have research interests in the philosophy of computing and in Chinese Philosophy, especially 莊子.

In 2025 and 2026 I was a graduate director of PIKSI-Boston. I am on the climate committee at Rutgers Philosophy and on the Executive Council and Bargaining Committee of Rutgers AAUP-AFT.

I joined Rutgers in 2022. From 2020 to 2022 I worked at Placer County Superior Court in Roseville and the California Supreme Court in San Francisco. Before that I did my undergraduate studies at Stanford. I grew up just east of Interstate 5 in Northern San Diego in Southern California on the U.S. West Coast.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Avoiding Polarization. Forthcoming in Analysis.

TEACHING

1. Buddhist Philosophy (Winter 2025)
2. Logic, Reasoning, and Persuasion (Fall 2025)

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

1. Finding Balance in Uncertain Times
   • Central APA, Chicago, February 2026
   • Formal Approaches to Rationality and Meaning, UMD, October 2025
   • Formal Epistemology Workshop, University of Iceland, May 2025
2. The Evidence Function
   • Northeastern Epistemology Workshop, April 2025
3. Avoiding Polarization
   • Eastern APA, New York, January 2025
   • Formal Epistemology Workshop, ANU, 2024
4. Why Wouldn't ZhuangZi have a Political Philosophy?
   • ACPA Eastern APA, New York, January 2025
   • ISCWP Pacific APA, Portland, March 2024