Dr Xinhe Wu

Dr Xinhe Wu is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University.

Before that, she was a Research Associate on the ERC project "Truth and Semantics" at the University of Bristol. She earned her PhD in philosophy from MIT. She also studied as an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame, double majoring in philosophy and mathematics. Additionally, she is an associate editor for Erkenntnis.

​​She works primarily on philosophical logic, mathematical logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. She's especially interested in Boolean-valued models, vagueness and indeterminacy, semantic paradoxes, set theory, formal theories of truth, and truthmaker semantics. More details about her research can be found here.

Her first name is pronounced (roughly) in IPA /ʃɪnhə/. She is from the Hui ethnic minority group in China. She grew up in the city of Nanjing. When she is not doing philosophy, she likes solving number puzzles like Sudoku and playing video games.

Research Interests

• Algebraic models in mathematical logic
• Semantic paradoxes
• Vagueness and indeterminacy
• Formal metaphysics
• Forcing in set theory