Below includes my career, publication (journal articles, conference papers, degree thesis), research projects, and specialist areas and interested topics.
2004 - Reviewer of EurAmerica, published by Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- reviewing philosophical articles
2003 - Reviewer of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, and a reviewer of the 2003 European Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (EuroCogSci) - reviewing philosophical articles
2002 ¡V Reviewer of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society - reviewing philosophical articles
2000 - Reviewer of Taiwan Philosophical Studies, published by Taiwanese Philosophical Association
08/2000- Assistant Professor (part-time), Center for General Education, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; offereing a course¡Xlogic.
08/2000- Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, Providence University: duty of courses¡Xlogic, introduction of philosophy, ethics, philosophy of life.
(11/)1999-(07/)2000 postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Philosophy, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; Organiser, workshop for the philosophy of cognitive science; Teacher, seminar of journal articles
1995 Organiser¡A8th Annual Conference of the Centre for Cognitive Science and the Human Communication Research Centre, Edinburgh, U.K.
1999 PhD, Centre for Cognitive Science, university of Edinburgh, U.K.
1994-5 Organiser, workshop for the philosophy of mind
1993-9 PhD program of Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
1992-3 passing the M.A. program, Centre for Cognitive Science, university of Edinburgh, and transferring to the second year of the PhD program of Cognitive Science (MSc thesis: An Intensional Logic of Abstract Objects),
1988 M.A. department of philosophy, Tunghai university (M.A. dissertation: A Contractual Foundation of Rawl¡¦s Theory of Justics)
1984-7 T.A (part-time). department of philosophy, Tunghai university
1984 ¡@ B.A., department of philosophy, Tunghai university, Taichung
2001 Jan An Ethical Consideration of Life for Future Generaltions: The Formation of Norms for Germ-line Gene Therapy, Studies of Humanity and Ecology in Taiwan, (Division of Humanities, & The Ecological Research Center of Taiwan, Providence university) Vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 53-76
2000 Dec Animat Mechanicalism: On the mechanisms of interactions between Cognitive Architectures and the Environment¡AEurAmerica: vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 125-183¡C
2000 June The Model Control of Situated Representation, Studies of Humanity and Ecology in Taiwan, Vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 33-48
[1] Daniel Hsi-wen Liu, 2004, Non-descriptive Nature of Dynamic Content, First
Joint Conference of the Society for Philosophy & Psychology and the European
Society for Philosophy & Psychology, July 3 ¡V July 6, Barcelone, Spain.
(a result of NSC 92-2411-H-126-003-)
[2] Daniel Hsi-wen Liu, 2003, ¡¥Reconsidering the Notion of Dynamical Systems
Theory Resources as a Conceptual Framework¡¦, Proceedings of the Twenty Fifth
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates. (accepted for an oral presentation to the Conference: July 31-August
2, Boston, U.S.A.)¡]reviewed paper¡^(a result of NSC 91-2411-H-126-002-)
[3] Daniel Hsi-wen Liu, 2003, ¡¥Embodied Objectivity of Perception¡¦, accepted
to Proceedings of European Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (accepted for an abstract poster to the
Conference: September, 10-13, Osnabruck: Osnabruck University, Germany)¡]reviewed
paper¡^(a result of NSC 91-2411-H-126-002-)
[4] Daniel Hsi-wen Liu, 2003, ¡¥Viewpoints in Embodied Objectivity¡¦, Proceedings
of the Twenty Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (accepted for an abstract poster presentation
to the Conference: July 31-August 2, Boston, U.S.A.)¡]reviewed abstract¡^(a result
of NSC 91-2411-H-126-002-)
[5] Daniel Hsi-wen Liu, 2003, ¡¥Explaining the linkage between visual experience
and visuomotor activities grounded on the notion of deictic codes¡¦, accepted
for a poster presentation to The 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy
and Psychology, June 18-21, Californian Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.
¡]reviewed¡^ (a result of NSC 91-2411-H-126-002-)
[6] Daniel Hsi-wen Liu, 2002 Reconsidering the Determinism Implicit in the
Notion of Genetic Program, 2002 Annual Conference of Taiwan Philosophical Association,
Taipei, Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University.
[7] Hsi-wen Liu, 2001, ¡¥Language-Like Representation in Embodied and Situated
Cognition: A Case Study of a Situated Robot¡¦s Planning¡¦, Proceedings of
the Twenty Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (eds.)
Wayne Gray & Christian Schunn, Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers,
p. 1019. (ISBN: 0-8058-4581-X), (Conference: August 7-10, George Mason University,
Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.A.) ¡]reviewed¡^¡]a result of NSC 90-2411-H-126-017-¡^
[8] Daniel Hsi-wen Liu, On the role of Biological Traits in the Nature-Culture
Interactions, 2001 Annual Conference of Taiwan Philosophical Association, Hsin-chu,
Institute of Philosophy, National Tsing Hua University.
[9] Animat Mechanicalism: On the mechanisms of interactions between Cognitive
Architectures and the Environment, 1999 Annual Conference of Taiwan Philosophical
Association, Taipei, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica.
[10] Hsi-wen Liu, October, 1999, panel discussion ¡X ¡¥Seeking unity of multiple
processes via the notion of incremental adaptation¡¦, ¡¥BEYOND BABEL¡¦ conference
-- Common Language, Common Differences, Common Ground, Western Humanities Alliance
-- 18th Annual Conference UC San Diego -. (Invited to the panel discussion,
but I could not but cancel this invitation in consideration of the probable
aftershocks of the ¡¥921 earthquake¡¦.)
[11] Hsi-wen Liu, August, 1999, poster presentation ¡X ¡¥Multiplism of cognition:
A case study of active perception¡¦, Twenty first annual conference of the Cognitive
Science Society; Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. (reviewed)
[12] Daniel Hsi-wen Liu, 1995 March ¡¥Explaining intentionality in terms of
mental representations¡¦, 8th Annual Conference of the Centre for Cognitive Science
and the Human Communication Research Centre, Edinburgh, U.K.
Doctoral dissertation¡G (1998) The emergence of active perception -- Seeking conceptual foundations, Edinburgh, U.K.
2003 Explaining the linkage between contents of visual experience and visuomotor actions: Seeking unity between the localist and interactionist perspectives, a research project for the Taiwanese National Science Council, NSC 92-2411-H-126-003-
2002 The objectivity of action-oriented representation, a research project for the Taiwanese National Science Council, NSC 91-2411-H-126-002-
2001 A criticism of the recent explanations for the embedded and embodied nature of cognition, a research project for the Taiwanese National Science Council, NSC 90-2411-H-126-017-
4. Specialist areas: philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, logic (critical thinking), philosophy of artificial life, philosophy of biology.
Interested topics: perception, visuomotor actions, embodiment, representation,
dynamical systems, emergence.