Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS)Waseda University

Name

CHENG, Tony

Degree

Ph.D., Philosophy

HP (URL)

http://www.tonycheng.net

Status

Associate Professor

Research Topic

The Embodied Self: Touch, Bodily Awareness, and Agency

My research focusses on how human and animal minds work, integrating a priori conceptual analysis and empirical methods. More specifically, I study consciousness, bodily experiences, spatial senses, and so on. Accordingly, I collaborate with both philosophers and empirical scientists for joint theoretical and experimental projects.

Monthly Spotlight

[Monthly Spotlight] is focusing on a researcher to introduce his/her research
Molyneux’s Question: Clinical Cases vs. Thought Experiments

Education and Academic Employment

Education

Academic Employment

Fields of Research Interests

Bodily Awareness; Touch; Attention; Consciousness

Academic Publications

[Authored Books]

•  Philosophy of Perception (expected 2024, Palgrave Macmillan)
• Transcendental Epistemology (2024, Cambridge University Press)
• John McDowell on Worldly Subjectivity: Oxford Kantianism Meets Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences (2021, Bloomsbury Academics)

[Edited Volumes]

• Consciousness and Its Epistemic Roles (first editor, with Takuya Niikawa, expected 2024), special issue, Synthese (SCI, SSCI, A&HCI)
• Expected Experiences: The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World (first editor, with Ryoji Sato and Jakob Hohwy, 2023, Routledge)
• Self and World, 20 Years On (2021), special issue, Analytic Philosophy, 62(1) (A&HCI)
• Objectivity, Space, and Mind (first editor, with Paul Snowdon, 2019), special issue, Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences, 18 (A&HCI)
• Spatial Senses: Philosophy of Perception in an Age of Science (first editor, with Ophelia Deroy and Charles Spence, 2019, Routledge)

[Encyclopedia Entries]

• ‘Transcendental Arguments’ (2023, with Robert Stern), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
•  ‘Bodily Awareness’ (2022), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[Journal Articles]

• ‘On the Transcendental Explanation of Intentionality’ (in press), Australasian Philosophical Review
• ‘The Language of Tactile Thoughts’ (2023), Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46: e270 (SCI, SSCI)
• ‘Perspectival Shapes are Viewpoint-Dependent Relational Properties’ (with Yi Lin and Cheng-Wei Wu, 2022), Psychological Review (online first) (SCI, SSCI)
• ‘Artificial Agential Intelligence’ (2022), Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness 9(3): 285-295
• ‘Illusions, Objectivity, and Non-Reductive Emergentism: Reply to Rose’ (2022), Perception 51(12): 847-852 (SCI, SSCI)
• ‘Taking Conceptual Issues Really Seriously: One Next Step for the Cognitive Science of Consciousness’ (with Yi Lin and Philip Tseng, 2022), Cognitive Science 46: e13213 (SSCI)
• ‘Demystifying Consciousness and Non-Cognitive Theories of Consciousness’ (2022), Journal of Neurophilosophy 1(2): 245-247
• ‘Spatial Representations in Sensory Modalities’ (2022), Mind and Language 37(3): 485-500 (SSCI)
• ‘P3b does not Reflect Perceived Contrast’ (with Yen-Kuang Chen and Brown Hsieh, 2022), eNeuro 9(2): 1-14 (SCI)
• ‘Radical Internalism Meets Radical Externalism, Or: Smithies’ Epistemology Transcendentalised’ (2022), Asian Journal of Philosophy 1(1): 1-8
• ‘Post-Perceptual Confidence and Matching Profile’ (2022), Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 65(3): 249-277 (A&HCI, SSCI)
• ‘Introduction: Sensing the Self in World’ (2021), Analytic Philosophy 62(1): 57-60 (A&HCI)
• ‘Introduction: Striving for Objectivity in Space’ (first author, with Paul Snowdon, 2019), Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences 18(5): 791-797 (A&HCI)
• ‘Quine’s Naturalism and Behaviourisms’ (2018), Metaphilosophy 49(4): 548-567 (A&HCI)
• ‘A Mechanism for Spatial Perception on the Human Skin’ (with Francesca Fardo, Brianna Beck, and Patrick Haggard, 2018), Cognition 178: 236-243. (SSCI)
• ‘The Recurrent Model of Bodily Spatial Phenomenology’ (first author, with Patrick Haggard, 2018), Journal of Consciousness Studies 25(3-4): 55-70 (A&HCI)
• ‘Iconic Memory and Attention in the Overflow Debate’ (2017), Cogent Psychology 4(1)
• ‘Attention, Fixation, and Change Blindness’ (2017), Philosophical Inquiries 5(1): 9-26
• ‘The Sceptical Paradox and the Nature of the Self’ (2016), Philosophical Investigations 39(1): 3-14 (A&HCI)
• ‘The Trajectory of Self’ (with Timothy Lane, Niall Duncan, and Georg Northoff, 2016), Trends in Cognitive Sciences 20(7): 481 (SCI, SSCI)
• ‘Compositionality and Believing That’ (2016), Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations 20: 60-76
• ‘A Plea for the Plurality of Function’ (2016), Review of Contemporary Philosophy 15: 70-81
• ‘The Situational Structure of Primate Belief’ (2016), Perspectives 6(1): 50-57, Special Issue: Social Cognition
• ‘Why Animals are Persons’ (2016), Animal Sentience 1(10): 5-6
• ‘Obstacles to Testing Molyneux’s Question Empirically’ (2015), i-Perception 6(4): 1-5 (SSCI)
• ‘Self, Action, and Passivity’ (2015), Philosophical Writings 44(1): 1-19
• ‘Evaluating Williamson’s Anti-Scepticism’ (2008), Sorites 21: 6-11
• ‘Programs and Persons’ (2003), B.A. Honours Thesis, NCCU Philosophy 32: 64-76

[Book Chapters]

• ‘Neither Object nor Content: Situating Anil Gupta’s Reformed Empiricism’ (forthcoming), in R. Rosenhagen (ed.) Reformed Empiricism and Its Prospects
• ‘Higher-Order Bayesian Statistical Decision Theory of Consciousness, Probabilistic Justification, and Predictive Processing’ (in press), in T. Cheng, R. Sato, and J. Hohwy (eds.) Expected Experiences: The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World, New York: Routledge
• ‘Predictive Processing in the Second Brain: From Gut Complex to Meta-Awareness’ (forthcoming), in T. Cheng, R. Sato, and J. Hohwy (eds.) Expected Experiences: The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World, New York: Routledge
• ‘Schellenberg and the Capacity to perceive’ (2023), in M. Vuletić and O. Beck (eds.), Empirical Reason and Sensory Experience, New York: Springer
• ‘Spatial Cognition and Bodily Objective Presence’ (2023), in M. Herrmann (ed.) Personhood, Self-Consciousness, and the First-Person Perspective, Paderborn: Brill
• ‘Touch and Other Somatosensory Senses’ (with A. Cataldo, 2022), in F. D. Brigard and W. Sinnott-Armstrong (eds.) Neuroscience and Philosophy, MIT Press
• ‘Perception’ (2022), in B. D. Young and C. D. Jennings (eds.) Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience: A Philosophical Introduction, Routledge
• ‘Molyneux’s Question and Somatosensory Spaces’ (2020), in G. Ferretti and B. Glenney (eds.) Molyneux’s Questions and the History of Philosophy, Routledge
• ‘Introduction: Sensing in and of Space’ (first author, with Ophelia Deroy and Charles Spence, 2019), in T. Cheng, O. Deroy & C. Spence (eds.) Spatial Senses: Philosophy of Perception in an Age of Science, Routledge
• ‘Is Bálint’s Syndrome a Counterexample of Kantian Spatiality Thesis?’ (2019), in T. Cheng, O. Deroy & C. Spence (eds.) Spatial Senses: Philosophy of Perception in an Age of Science, Routledge
• ‘On the Very Idea of a Tactile Field’ (2019), in T. Cheng, O. Deroy & C. Spence (eds.) Spatial Senses: Philosophy of Perception in an Age of Science, Routledge
• ‘Consciousness’ (2019), in C. Hendricks (ed.) Introduction to Philosophy, Quebec: Rebus Foundation Publishing
• ‘Spatial Perception and the Sense of Touch’ (with Patrick Haggard, Brianna Beck, and Francesca Fardo, 2017), in F. D. Vignemont & A. Alsmith (eds.) The Subject’s Matter: Self-Consciousness and the Body, MIT Press

[Reviews, Introductory Pieces, Blog Posts, and Abstracts]

• ‘Book Review: Philosophy of Neuroscience’ (2024), Erkenntnis, online first
• ‘Capturing the Elusive Self: Review of Know Thyself: The New Science of Self-Awareness’ (2023), Philosophical Psychology, online first
• ‘Book Review: Metazoa – Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind’ (2022), Biosystems, 219. (SCI)
• ‘Book Review: In Consciousness We Trust” (2022), Perception, 51(8), 598-600. (SCI, SSCI)
• ‘Book Review: Why Free Will is Real” (2021), Philosophy in Review, 41(2), 80-82.
• ‘Book Review: The Epistemic Role of Consciousness,” Philosophical Quarterly, 72(1), 238-240. (A&HCI)
• ‘Book Review: Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness’ (2016), Philosophical Psychology 29(4): 632-635 (SSCI)
• ‘Tactile Object and Embodied Subject’ (abstract, 2016), iCog website: i-cog.com/abs3
• ‘Book Review: The First Sense: A Philosophical Study of Human Touch’ (2015), Frontiers in Psychology 6: 1196 (SSCI)
• ‘Self-Identification and a Puzzle about Mental Ownership’ (abstract, 2011), Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 84(4)
• Book Review: Attention is Cognitive Unison (2011), Metapsychology 15 (29)
• Book Review: The Character of Consciousness (2011), Metapsychology 15 (6)
• Book Review: The Phenomenological Mind (2010), Psyche 16 (2): 1-4

Other Interests

Model kits (esp. Zoids); Tokusatsu (esp. Kamen Riders)

Affiliated Academic Organizations

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC)
Consciousness Research Network (CoRN)
Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (LMPST)
Center for Traditional and Scientific Metaphysics (TSM)
Taiwan Consciousness Research Association (TCRA)

Awards

2023 Awards for NSTC Talent Subsidy Incentives by Faculty Members and Researchers
2022 Scholarly Monograph Award, Academia Sinica
2008 First Prize, Taiwan Philosophical Association