Faculty Profiles - SHAN Yafeng | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Yafeng SHAN
單亞峰

PhD in Philosophy
University College London, 2016

Assistant Professor
Division of Humanities

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ORCID

0000-0001-7736-1822

ResearcherID

GRS-4003-2022

Scopus ID

58697651500

Research Interest

Philosophy of science
Epistemology
History and philosophy of biology
Metaphilosophy
Philosophy of social science
Metaphysics

Publications

2024 6

The extended evolutionary synthesis: An integrated historical and philosophical examination

Philosophy Compass, v. 19, (6), June 2024, article number e13002
Shan, Yafeng
Article

Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism

Shan, Yafeng
Book

Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy

Shan, Yafeng
Book

Epistemic Causality and Its Application to the Social and Cognitive Sciences

Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism / Yafeng Shan. UK : Oxford University Press, 2024, p. 241-277, Ch. 10
Shan, Yafeng; Taylor, Samuel D.; Williamson, Jon
Book chapter

Kuhn still matters

Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy / edited by Yafeng Shan. Cham : Springer, 2024, p. 1-7
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

Some Reflections on Causation

Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism / Yafeng Shan. UK : Oxford University Press, 2024, p. 1-12, Ch. 1
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

2023 20

‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, v. 99, June 2023, p. A1-A3, Special issue: New Directions in the Historiography of Genetics
Shan, Yafeng; Lamm, Ehud; Harman, Oren
Article

Beyond Structure: New Frontiers of the Philosophy of Thomas Kuhn

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, v. 36, (2), October 2023, p. 81-86
Politi, Vincenzo; Shan, Yafeng
Article

Science is more than knowing

Asian Journal of Philosophy, v. 2, (1), April 2023, article number 13
Shan, Yafeng
Article

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences

Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon
Book

Examining Philosophy Itself

Shan, Yafeng
Book

Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Dialogues between Researchers and Philosophers

Shan, Yafeng
Book

Assessing Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research

Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Dialogues between Researchers and Philosophers / edited by Yafeng Shan. London : Routledge, 2023, p. 1-10, Ch. 1
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

Economics

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 7
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon
Book chapter

Evidence-Based Policy

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 3
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon
Book chapter

Evidential Pluralism

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 1
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon
Book chapter

Historical Roots

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 2
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon
Book chapter

Introduction: The Unexamined Philosophy Is Not Worth Doing

Examining Philosophy Itself / edited by Yafeng Shan. Wiley, 2023
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

Law

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 9
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon
Book chapter

Mixed Methods Research

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 4
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon
Book chapter

Objections and Responses

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 5
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon
Book chapter

Philosophy Doesn’t Need a Concept of Progress

Examining Philosophy Itself / edited by Yafeng Shan. UK : Wiley, 2023, p. 29-41, Ch. 2
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

Political Science

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 8
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon
Book chapter

Sociology

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 6
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon
Book chapter

The Historiography of Scientific Revolutions: A Philosophical Reflection

Handbook for the Historiography of Science / edited by Mauro L. Condé, Marlon Salomon. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023, p. 1-18, Book series: Historiographies of Science
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

The Scope of Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 10
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon
Book chapter

2022 6

Philosophical foundations of mixed methods research

Philosophy Compass, v. 17, (1), January 2022, article number e12804
Shan, Yafeng
Article

Philosophy doesn’t need a concept of progress

Metaphilosophy, v. 53, (2-3), April 2022, p. 176-184
Shan, Yafeng
Article

The unexamined philosophy is not worth doing: An introduction to New Directions in Metaphilosophy

Metaphilosophy, v. 53, (2-3), April 2022, p. 153-158
Shan, Yafeng
Article

New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress

Shan, Yafeng
Book

Introduction: Philosophical Analyses of Scientific Progress

New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress / edited by Yafeng Shan. New York : Routledge, 2022, p. 1-9
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

The Functional Approach: Scientific Progress as Increased Usefulness

New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress / edited by Yafeng Shan. New York : Routledge, 2022, p. 46-61, Ch. 3
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

2021 3

Applying Evidential Pluralism to the social sciences

European Journal for Philosophy of Science, v. 11, (4), October 2021, article number 96
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon
Article

Beyond Mendelism and Biometry

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, v. 89, October 2021, p. 155-163
Shan, Yafeng
Article

Mendel on developmental information

Information and the History of Philosophy / edited by Chris Meyns. London : Routledge, 2021, p. 262-280, Ch. 15
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

2020 12

Kuhn’s “wrong turning” and legacy today

Synthese, v. 197, (1), January 2020, p. 381-406
Shan, Yafeng
Article

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics

Shan, Yafeng
Book

A Functional Account of the Progress in Early Genetics

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 101-117, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

A New Mode of Conceptual Continuity

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 137-157, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

De Vries’ Mendelism Reassessed

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 37-51, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

Exemplarising the Origin of Genetics

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 73-99, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

Introduction

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 1-11, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

Mendel’s Pisum Revisited

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 15-35, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

Promisingness in Theory Choice

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 177-192, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

The Gap Problem in Hypothetico-Deductivism

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 159-175, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

The Problem of the Long Neglect Revisited: An Exemplar-Based Explanation

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 119-133, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

Weldon’s Choice Reconsidered

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 53-69, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng
Book chapter

2019 2

A New Functional Approach to Scientific Progress

Philosophy of Science, v. 86, (4), October 2019, p. 739-758
Shan, Yafeng
Article

Contrastivism and non-contrastivism in scientific explanation

Philosophy Compass, v. 14, (8), August 2019, article number e12613
Shan, Yafeng
Article

Article 1

The extended evolutionary synthesis: An integrated historical and philosophical examination

Philosophy Compass, v. 19, (6), June 2024, article number e13002
Shan, Yafeng

Book 2

Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism

Shan, Yafeng

Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy

Shan, Yafeng

Book chapter 3

Epistemic Causality and Its Application to the Social and Cognitive Sciences

Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism / Yafeng Shan. UK : Oxford University Press, 2024, p. 241-277, Ch. 10
Shan, Yafeng; Taylor, Samuel D.; Williamson, Jon

Kuhn still matters

Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy / edited by Yafeng Shan. Cham : Springer, 2024, p. 1-7
Shan, Yafeng

Some Reflections on Causation

Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism / Yafeng Shan. UK : Oxford University Press, 2024, p. 1-12, Ch. 1
Shan, Yafeng

Article 3

‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, v. 99, June 2023, p. A1-A3, Special issue: New Directions in the Historiography of Genetics
Shan, Yafeng; Lamm, Ehud; Harman, Oren

Beyond Structure: New Frontiers of the Philosophy of Thomas Kuhn

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, v. 36, (2), October 2023, p. 81-86
Politi, Vincenzo; Shan, Yafeng

Science is more than knowing

Asian Journal of Philosophy, v. 2, (1), April 2023, article number 13
Shan, Yafeng

Book 3

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences

Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon

Examining Philosophy Itself

Shan, Yafeng

Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Dialogues between Researchers and Philosophers

Shan, Yafeng

Book chapter 14

Assessing Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research

Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Dialogues between Researchers and Philosophers / edited by Yafeng Shan. London : Routledge, 2023, p. 1-10, Ch. 1
Shan, Yafeng

Economics

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 7
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon

Evidence-Based Policy

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 3
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon

Evidential Pluralism

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 1
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon

Historical Roots

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 2
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon

Introduction: The Unexamined Philosophy Is Not Worth Doing

Examining Philosophy Itself / edited by Yafeng Shan. Wiley, 2023
Shan, Yafeng

Law

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 9
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon

Mixed Methods Research

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 4
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon

Objections and Responses

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 5
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon

Philosophy Doesn’t Need a Concept of Progress

Examining Philosophy Itself / edited by Yafeng Shan. UK : Wiley, 2023, p. 29-41, Ch. 2
Shan, Yafeng

Political Science

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 8
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon

Sociology

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 6
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon

The Historiography of Scientific Revolutions: A Philosophical Reflection

Handbook for the Historiography of Science / edited by Mauro L. Condé, Marlon Salomon. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023, p. 1-18, Book series: Historiographies of Science
Shan, Yafeng

The Scope of Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences / by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson. London : Routledge, 2023, Ch. 10
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon

Article 3

Philosophical foundations of mixed methods research

Philosophy Compass, v. 17, (1), January 2022, article number e12804
Shan, Yafeng

Philosophy doesn’t need a concept of progress

Metaphilosophy, v. 53, (2-3), April 2022, p. 176-184
Shan, Yafeng

The unexamined philosophy is not worth doing: An introduction to New Directions in Metaphilosophy

Metaphilosophy, v. 53, (2-3), April 2022, p. 153-158
Shan, Yafeng

Book 1

New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress

Shan, Yafeng

Book chapter 2

Introduction: Philosophical Analyses of Scientific Progress

New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress / edited by Yafeng Shan. New York : Routledge, 2022, p. 1-9
Shan, Yafeng

The Functional Approach: Scientific Progress as Increased Usefulness

New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress / edited by Yafeng Shan. New York : Routledge, 2022, p. 46-61, Ch. 3
Shan, Yafeng

Article 2

Applying Evidential Pluralism to the social sciences

European Journal for Philosophy of Science, v. 11, (4), October 2021, article number 96
Shan, Yafeng; Williamson, Jon

Beyond Mendelism and Biometry

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, v. 89, October 2021, p. 155-163
Shan, Yafeng

Book chapter 1

Mendel on developmental information

Information and the History of Philosophy / edited by Chris Meyns. London : Routledge, 2021, p. 262-280, Ch. 15
Shan, Yafeng

Article 1

Kuhn’s “wrong turning” and legacy today

Synthese, v. 197, (1), January 2020, p. 381-406
Shan, Yafeng

Book 1

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics

Shan, Yafeng

Book chapter 10

A Functional Account of the Progress in Early Genetics

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 101-117, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng

A New Mode of Conceptual Continuity

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 137-157, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng

De Vries’ Mendelism Reassessed

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 37-51, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng

Exemplarising the Origin of Genetics

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 73-99, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng

Introduction

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 1-11, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng

Mendel’s Pisum Revisited

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 15-35, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng

Promisingness in Theory Choice

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 177-192, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng

The Gap Problem in Hypothetico-Deductivism

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 159-175, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng

The Problem of the Long Neglect Revisited: An Exemplar-Based Explanation

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 119-133, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng

Weldon’s Choice Reconsidered

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / Yafeng Shan. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2020, p. 53-69, Book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, v. 320
Shan, Yafeng

Article 2

A New Functional Approach to Scientific Progress

Philosophy of Science, v. 86, (4), October 2019, p. 739-758
Shan, Yafeng

Contrastivism and non-contrastivism in scientific explanation

Philosophy Compass, v. 14, (8), August 2019, article number e12613
Shan, Yafeng

Teaching Assignment

HUMA5902	Philosophy of Biology
UROP1100N	Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 1

CTDL1901

Cognitive Foundations of University Education: Critical Thinking and Data Literacy

HUMA5901

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2021 to December 2024 (As of 21 November 2024)

Current RPGs

Master of Philosophy

KWOK, Chun Yu
Individualized Interdisciplinary Program
WANG, Qinyi
Humanities

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Publications

2024 6

2023 20

2022 6

2021 3

2020 12

2019 2

Article 1

Book 2

Book chapter 3

Article 3

Book 3

Book chapter 14

Article 3

Book 1

Book chapter 2

Article 2

Book chapter 1

Article 1

Book 1

Book chapter 10

Article 2

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2021 to December 2024 (As of 21 November 2024)

Current RPGs

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From January 2022 to December 2024

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