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Sedation Use in End-of-Life Care
Parents' Regret in Surrogate Medical Decision
The Learner’s Pleasure: Psychology of Mimesis in Aristotle

This project works on Aristotle's view on the pleasure we derive when learning to be good by imitating virtuous actions. It builds upon Aristotle's Poetics 4, where he claims that “imitation is natural to man from childhood” and that we first “learn by imitation” (mimesis, or “representation”). Equally natural, he adds, is that all human beings “take pleasure in imitation (chairein tois mimemasin).” I address the cognitive process of learning by imitation, and the pleasure derived from it addressed in Aristotle’s aesthetic psychology, and apply it in his discussion of pleasure in the Nicomachean Ethics .

Women’s Autonomy in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs)

This project is expected to yield three primary research papers (with a potential fourth if needed): The Moral Psychology of Women in Their IVF Process, The Right to Discontinue ART Treatment, and Voluntary Account of Infertility and Medical Treatment of IVF. I am currently working on the first paper as part of my Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar fellowship at the Medical Humanities Research Institute at Rice University.

PAST PROJECTS

“MUSI 374: Exploring Diversity and Inclusion in Classical Music: from Theory to Practice.”

This is a collaborative project I take with Kurt Stallman and Badie Khaleghian, funded by BRIDGE (Building Research on Inequality and Diversity to Grow Equity) at Rice University. This one-year project includes research on diversity and inclusion in the music field and a course offered to all students at Rice University. The aim is to emphasize the crucial importance of diversity and inclusion in the music field and to equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to promote a more equitable and just musical ecosystem. I feel deeply honored to be part of this team.

"Women in Socratic Love", International Society for Socratic Studies (ISSS) Latin America Regional Meeting, Brazil, 2023 Oct.

In addition to my primary research area, I have a strong interest in feminist philosophy. One that has captivated my attention is the portrayal of female figures in Plato's Symposium. I find it intriguing how women are seemingly both omnipresent and absent within the symposium. By talking about women in Socratic Love, I aim to shed light on women's subjectivity in the Socratic philosophical context.

I've co-organized a Rice-UH graduate conference held in Nov. 17-18th 2023.

Rice has an excellent philosophy program. I had and am having a great time here. One remarkable tradition is the Rice-UH Graduate Conference. This annual event serves as a catalyst for building meaningful interactions and connections among graduate philosophers in Houston and beyond. It offers a unique platform for graduate students from across the state to present their projects and engage in constructive dialogue. This year's conference theme is "Moral Psychology". You can find more information here.

"Cross-category Notions, Representations and Aristotle’s Essentialism", workshop on Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Applications (CARLA), Canada, 2023 Aug.

This is an expanded version of my paper on Aristotle's cross-category notions, with a view on Aristotle's essentialism. The research was initially presented at the conference "Aristotelica" in June 2023, and I really appreciate this opportunity to present my paper at this interdisciplinary workshop with scholars from linguistics, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and computer science.

"Cross-category notions in Aristotle", Aristotelica, June 8th 2023.

In my research on Aristotle's concept of energeia, I found that it is widely considered as one of the "cross-category" notions in Aristotle's philosophy (the others are: Good, Being, Matter and Form). This intriguing interpretation prompted me to delve deeper into Aristotle's categories and explore the "ti esti" (what is it) question discussed in his book, Category. Driven by this curiosity, I expanded my investigation to other notions also regarded as "cross-category." While this research did not directly contribute to my dissertation writing, its value is recognized. Therefore, I made it a conference paper and presented it at the Aristotelica 2023 Conference.

"Electronic Music, Women Composers, Gender Difference, and Inclusiveness"

This is a collaborative project I undertook with Badie Khaleghian, a talented composer and multimedia artist, currently an Assistant Professor at Bowdoin College. In 2022, Badie and I had a class together at Rice University, and we had a conversation about the lack of diversity in the Electronic Music field. So we did some research and wrote this paper together. The paper has been presented at the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) conference and the Rice Art History graduate conference.

Teaching materials for undergraduate courses on Ethics.

In the summer of 2022, I joined this project, with other three of my colleagues in my department, to develop teaching materials for undergraduate courses on Ethics. As part of the team, I have developed lecture contents for module topics including Virtue Ethics, Care Ethics, and Moral Emotions. This project is under the supervision of one faculty member, Timothy Schroeder, and funded by the Humanities School of Rice University.

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