{"id":15401,"date":"2024-04-01T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/?p=15401"},"modified":"2025-04-25T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T01:03:00","slug":"%e7%a7%8b%e5%b1%b1-%e5%be%b9-2-6-2-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/other-en\/2024\/04\/01\/15401\/","title":{"rendered":"CHENG, Tony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Name<\/h5>\n<p>CHENG, Tony<\/p>\n<h5>Degree<\/h5>\n<p>Ph.D., Philosophy<\/p>\n<h5>HP (URL)<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonycheng.net\">http:\/\/www.tonycheng.net<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Status<\/h5>\n<p>Associate Professor<\/p>\n<h5>Research Topic<\/h5>\n<p>The Embodied Self: Touch, Bodily Awareness, and Agency<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h5>Monthly Spotlight<\/h5>\n<p>[Monthly Spotlight] is focusing on a researcher to introduce his\/her research<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/news-en\/2025\/03\/27\/18624\/\">Molyneux\u2019s Question: Clinical Cases vs. Thought Experiments<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Education and Academic Employment<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<table class=\"table table-striped table-chronology table-colored-tbhd\" style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; height: 69px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.56237%; height: 23px;\">2021<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.4376%; height: 23px;\">MSc in Psychology &amp; Neuroscience of Mental Health, King\u2019s College London<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.56237%; height: 23px;\">2019<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.4376%; height: 23px;\">PhD in Philosophy, University College London (with cross-disciplinary training in cognitive neuroscience)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.56237%; height: 23px;\">2014<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.4376%; height: 23px;\">MPhil in Philosophy, University College London<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.56237%;\">2012<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.4376%;\">MA in Philosophy, City University of New York, Graduate Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Academic Employment<\/strong><\/p>\n<table class=\"table table-striped table-chronology table-colored-tbhd\" style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; height: 69px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.49322%; height: 23px;\">2024-present<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.5068%; height: 23px;\">Associate Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.49322%; height: 23px;\">2024-present<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.5068%; height: 23px;\">Associate Editor, <em>Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 9.49322%; height: 23px;\">2023-2024<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.5068%; height: 23px;\">Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy \/ Center for Phenomenology \/ Research Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning, National Chengchi University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.49322%;\">2019-2023<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 90.5068%;\">Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy \/ Center for Phenomenology \/ Research Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning, National Chengchi University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>Fields of Research Interests<\/h5>\n<p>Bodily Awareness; Touch; Attention; Consciousness<\/p>\n<h5>Academic Publications<\/h5>\n<p>[Authored Books]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Philosophy of Perception<\/em> (expected 2024, Palgrave Macmillan)<\/li>\n<li><em>Transcendental Epistemology<\/em> (2024, Cambridge University Press)<\/li>\n<li><em>John McDowell on Worldly Subjectivity: Oxford Kantianism Meets Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences<\/em> (2021, Bloomsbury Academics)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Edited Volumes]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Consciousness and Its Epistemic Roles<\/em> (first editor, with Takuya Niikawa, expected 2024), special issue, <em>Synthese<\/em> (SCI, SSCI, A&amp;HCI)<\/li>\n<li><em> Expected Experiences: The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World<\/em> (first editor, with Ryoji Sato and Jakob Hohwy, 2023, Routledge)<\/li>\n<li><em>Self and World, 20 Years On<\/em> (2021), special issue, <em>Analytic Philosophy<\/em>, 62(1) (A&amp;HCI)<\/li>\n<li><em>Objectivity, Space, and Mind<\/em> (first editor, with Paul Snowdon, 2019), special issue, <em>Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences<\/em>, 18 (A&amp;HCI)<\/li>\n<li><em>Spatial Senses: Philosophy of Perception in an Age of Science<\/em> (first editor, with Ophelia Deroy and Charles Spence, 2019, Routledge)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Encyclopedia Entries]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Transcendental Arguments\u2019 (2023, with Robert Stern), <em>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u2018Bodily Awareness\u2019 (2022), <em>Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Journal Articles]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018On the Transcendental Explanation of Intentionality\u2019 (in press), <em>Australasian Philosophical Review<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u2018The Language of Tactile Thoughts\u2019 (2023), <em>Behavioral and Brain Sciences<\/em> 46: e270 (SCI, SSCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Perspectival Shapes are Viewpoint-Dependent Relational Properties\u2019 (with Yi Lin and Cheng-Wei Wu, 2022), <em>Psychological Review<\/em> (online first) (SCI, SSCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Artificial Agential Intelligence\u2019 (2022), <em>Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness<\/em> 9(3): 285-295<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Illusions, Objectivity, and Non-Reductive Emergentism: Reply to Rose\u2019 (2022), <em>Perception<\/em> 51(12): 847-852 (SCI, SSCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Taking Conceptual Issues Really Seriously: One Next Step for the Cognitive Science of Consciousness\u2019 (with Yi Lin and Philip Tseng, 2022), <em>Cognitive Science<\/em> 46: e13213 (SSCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Demystifying Consciousness and Non-Cognitive Theories of Consciousness\u2019 (2022), <em>Journal of Neurophilosophy<\/em> 1(2): 245-247<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Spatial Representations in Sensory Modalities\u2019 (2022), <em>Mind and Language<\/em> 37(3): 485-500 (SSCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018P3b does not Reflect Perceived Contrast\u2019 (with Yen-Kuang Chen and Brown Hsieh, 2022), <em>eNeuro<\/em> 9(2): 1-14 (SCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Radical Internalism Meets Radical Externalism, Or: Smithies\u2019 Epistemology Transcendentalised\u2019 (2022), <em>Asian Journal of Philosophy<\/em> 1(1): 1-8<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Post-Perceptual Confidence and Matching Profile\u2019 (2022), <em>Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy<\/em> 65(3): 249-277 (A&amp;HCI, SSCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Introduction: Sensing the Self in World\u2019 (2021), <em>Analytic Philosophy<\/em> 62(1): 57-60 (A&amp;HCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Introduction: Striving for Objectivity in Space\u2019 (first author, with Paul Snowdon, 2019), <em>Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences<\/em> 18(5): 791-797 (A&amp;HCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Quine\u2019s Naturalism and Behaviourisms\u2019 (2018), <em>Metaphilosophy <\/em>49(4): 548-567 (A&amp;HCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018A Mechanism for Spatial Perception on the Human Skin\u2019 (with Francesca Fardo, Brianna Beck, and Patrick Haggard, 2018), <em>Cognition<\/em> 178: 236-243. (SSCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018The Recurrent Model of Bodily Spatial Phenomenology\u2019 (first author, with Patrick Haggard, 2018), <em>Journal of Consciousness Studies<\/em> 25(3-4): 55-70 (A&amp;HCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Iconic Memory and Attention in the Overflow Debate\u2019 (2017), <em>Cogent Psychology<\/em> 4(1)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Attention, Fixation, and Change Blindness\u2019 (2017), <em>Philosophical Inquiries<\/em> 5(1): 9-26<\/li>\n<li>\u2018The Sceptical Paradox and the Nature of the Self\u2019 (2016), <em>Philosophical Investigations<\/em> 39(1): 3-14 (A&amp;HCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018The Trajectory of Self\u2019 (with Timothy Lane, Niall Duncan, and Georg Northoff, 2016), <em>Trends in Cognitive Sciences<\/em> 20(7): 481 (SCI, SSCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Compositionality and Believing That\u2019 (2016), <em>Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations<\/em> 20: 60-76<\/li>\n<li>\u2018A Plea for the Plurality of Function\u2019 (2016), <em>Review of Contemporary Philosophy<\/em> 15: 70-81<\/li>\n<li>\u2018The Situational Structure of Primate Belief\u2019 (2016), <em>Perspectives<\/em> 6(1): 50-57, Special Issue: Social Cognition<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Why Animals are Persons\u2019 (2016), <em>Animal Sentience<\/em> 1(10): 5-6<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Obstacles to Testing Molyneux\u2019s Question Empirically\u2019 (2015), <em>i-Perception<\/em> 6(4): 1-5 (SSCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Self, Action, and Passivity\u2019 (2015), <em>Philosophical Writings<\/em> 44(1): 1-19<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Evaluating Williamson\u2019s Anti-Scepticism\u2019 (2008), <em>Sorites<\/em> 21: 6-11<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Programs and Persons\u2019 (2003), B.A. Honours Thesis, <em>NCCU Philosophy<\/em> 32: 64-76<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Book Chapters]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Neither Object nor Content: Situating Anil Gupta\u2019s Reformed Empiricism\u2019 (forthcoming), in R. Rosenhagen (ed.) <em>Reformed Empiricism and Its Prospects<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u2018Higher-Order Bayesian Statistical Decision Theory of Consciousness, Probabilistic Justification, and Predictive Processing\u2019 (in press), in T. Cheng, R. Sato, and J. Hohwy (eds.) <em>Expected Experiences: The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World<\/em>, New York: Routledge<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Predictive Processing in the Second Brain: From Gut Complex to Meta-Awareness\u2019 (forthcoming), in T. Cheng, R. Sato, and J. Hohwy (eds.) <em>Expected Experiences: The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World<\/em>, New York: Routledge<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Schellenberg and the Capacity to perceive\u2019 (2023), in M. Vuleti\u0107 and O. Beck (eds.), <em>Empirical Reason and Sensory Experience<\/em>, New York: Springer<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Spatial Cognition and Bodily Objective Presence\u2019 (2023), in M. Herrmann (ed.) <em>Personhood, Self-Consciousness, and the First-Person Perspective<\/em>, Paderborn: Brill<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Touch and Other Somatosensory Senses\u2019 (with A. Cataldo, 2022), in F. D. Brigard and W. Sinnott-Armstrong (eds.) <em>Neuroscience and Philosophy<\/em>, MIT Press<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Perception\u2019 (2022), in B. D. Young and C. D. Jennings (eds.) <em>Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience: A Philosophical Introduction<\/em>, Routledge<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Molyneux\u2019s Question and Somatosensory Spaces\u2019 (2020), in G. Ferretti and B. Glenney (eds.) <em>Molyneux\u2019s Questions and the History of Philosophy<\/em>, Routledge<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Introduction: Sensing in and of Space\u2019 (first author, with Ophelia Deroy and Charles Spence, 2019), in T. Cheng, O. Deroy &amp; C. Spence (eds.) <em>Spatial Senses: Philosophy of Perception in an Age of Science<\/em>, Routledge<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Is B\u00e1lint\u2019s Syndrome a Counterexample of Kantian Spatiality Thesis?\u2019 (2019), in T. Cheng, O. Deroy &amp; C. Spence (eds.) <em>Spatial Senses: Philosophy of Perception in an Age of Science<\/em>, Routledge<\/li>\n<li>\u2018On the Very Idea of a Tactile Field\u2019 (2019), in T. Cheng, O. Deroy &amp; C. Spence (eds.) <em>Spatial Senses: Philosophy of Perception in an Age of Science<\/em>, Routledge<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Consciousness\u2019 (2019), in C. Hendricks (ed.) <em>Introduction to Philosophy<\/em>, Quebec: Rebus Foundation Publishing<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Spatial Perception and the Sense of Touch\u2019 (with Patrick Haggard, Brianna Beck, and Francesca Fardo, 2017), in F. D. Vignemont &amp; A. Alsmith (eds.) <em>The Subject\u2019s Matter: Self-Consciousness and the Body<\/em>, MIT Press<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Reviews, Introductory Pieces, Blog Posts, and Abstracts]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Book Review: Philosophy of Neuroscience\u2019 (2024), <em>Erkenntnis<\/em>, online first<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Capturing the Elusive Self: Review of Know Thyself: The New Science of Self-Awareness\u2019 (2023), <em>Philosophical Psychology<\/em>, online first<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Book Review: Metazoa \u2013 Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind\u2019 (2022), <em>Biosystems<\/em>, 219. (SCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Book Review: In Consciousness We Trust\u201d (2022), <em>Perception,<\/em> 51(8), 598-600. (SCI, SSCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Book Review: Why Free Will is Real\u201d (2021), <em>Philosophy in Review,<\/em> 41(2), 80-82.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Book Review: The Epistemic Role of Consciousness,\u201d <em>Philosophical Quarterly<\/em>, 72(1), 238-240. (A&amp;HCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Book Review: <em>Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness<\/em>\u2019 (2016), <em>Philosophical Psychology<\/em> 29(4): 632-635 (SSCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Tactile Object and Embodied Subject\u2019 (abstract, 2016), <em>iCog website<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/i-cog.com\/abs3\">i-cog.com\/abs3<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u2018Book Review: <em>The First Sense: A Philosophical Study of Human Touch<\/em>\u2019 (2015), <em>Frontiers in Psychology<\/em> 6: 1196 (SSCI)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Self-Identification and a Puzzle about Mental Ownership\u2019 (abstract, 2011), <em>Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association<\/em> 84(4)<\/li>\n<li>Book Review: <em>Attention is Cognitive Unison<\/em> (2011), <em>Metapsychology<\/em> 15 (29)<\/li>\n<li>Book Review: <em>The Character of Consciousness<\/em> (2011), <em>Metapsychology<\/em> 15 (6)<\/li>\n<li>Book Review: <em>The Phenomenological Mind<\/em> (2010), <em>Psyche <\/em>16 (2): 1-4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Other Interests<\/h5>\n<p>Model kits (esp. Zoids); Tokusatsu (esp. Kamen Riders)<\/p>\n<h5>Affiliated Academic Organizations<\/h5>\n<p>Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC)<br \/>\nConsciousness Research Network (CoRN)<br \/>\nLogic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (LMPST)<br \/>\nCenter for Traditional and Scientific Metaphysics (TSM)<br \/>\nTaiwan Consciousness Research Association (TCRA)<\/p>\n<h5>Awards<\/h5>\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong> Awards for NSTC Talent Subsidy Incentives by Faculty Members and Researchers<br \/>\n<strong>2022<\/strong> Scholarly Monograph Award, Academia Sinica<br \/>\n<strong>2008<\/strong> First Prize, Taiwan Philosophical Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name CHENG, Tony Degree Ph.D., Philosophy HP (URL) http:\/\/www.tonycheng.net Status Associate Professor Researc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19002,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15401\/revisions\/19002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}