ADRIAN LIU

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I'm a PhD candidate at Rutgers Philosophy. My committee is Juan Comesaña, Ted Sider, Liz Camp, Andy Egan, and Kevin Dorst (MIT). My interests are in epistemology and metaphysics, especially on accuracy, higher-order uncertainty, and conceptual change. My dissertation is about meaning and evidence, and their relevance for social philosophy.

I'm graduate co-director of PIKSI-Boston for 2025 and 2026, and I convene the Epistemology Reading Group at Rutgers.

Teaching:

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

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. Ineffective Reassurance (with Isabel Herburger)
   • Non-Paradigmatic Pragmatics Workshop, Rutgers, May 2025
3. The Evidence Function
   • Northeastern Epistemology Workshop, April 2025
4. Manipulation: A Relational Analysis
   • Central APA, February 2025
5. Avoiding Polarization
   • Eastern APA, New York, January 2025
   • Formal Epistemology Workshop, ANU, 2024
6. Why Wouldn't ZhuangZi have a Political Philosophy?
   • ACPA Eastern APA, New York, January 2025
   • ISCWP Pacific APA, Portland, March 2024