Dr Jingyi Wu

Dr Jingyi Wu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. She primarily works on epistemology (feminist, social, and formal) and philosophy of physics.

She works in both areas separately, but increasingly, she has been thinking about their intersection (check out the Feminist Philosophy of Physics Workshop). She also has interests in general philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, Asian diasporic philosophy, and mathematical physics.

Her work focuses on clarifying the structures of our social and physical worlds. As a scientifically-informed philosopher, she does so in two ways: First, she employs network models to address questions such as: How do social identities and social injustice impact knowledge production in a group? Does diversity improve group learning? How do we promote such diversity? This work is at the intersection of social epistemology, network modeling, and the philosophy of race and gender. Second, she uses geometric and topological methods to study foundational questions in physics, especially in spacetime theories and statistical mechanics. This work is in the philosophy and foundations of physics.

In both areas, she uses mathematical tools to think about philosophically interesting questions, and philosophically reflect on the applicability of models that purport to represent or explain reality.

Research Interests

• Social Epistemology (of Science)
• Feminist Epistemology
• Philosophy of Space and Time