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Chinese Name
張寄冀
Biography
Jiji Zhang received his BA in Logic from the Department of Philosophy at Peking University and PhD in Logic, Computation, and Methodology from the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. He taught previously at California Institute of Technology and Lingnan University, before joining the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. His philosophical interests lie mainly in philosophy of science, formal epistemology, and logic. His primary research program is interdisciplinary in nature and centers around the topic of causation, addressing both the epistemological and logical aspects of causal reasoning, and the statistical and computational aspects of causal modelling and discovery.
Research Interests
Philosophy of Science, Formal Epistemology, Logic, Metaphysics of Causation, Artificial Intelligence
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Parsimony in Causal Inference: Epistemic Justifications and Methodological Implications
1/01/21 → 31/12/22
Project: Research project
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Logical Investigations of Causal Models and Counterfactual Structures
1/09/18 → 31/12/20
Project: Research project
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On the unity between observational and experimental causal discovery
Zhang, J., 25 Apr 2022, In: Theoria (Spain). 37, 1, p. 63-74 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reliable Causal Discovery with Improved Exact Search and Weaker Assumptions
Ng, I., Zheng, Y., Zhang, J. & Zhang, K., 6 Dec 2021, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021). Ranzato, MA., Beygelzimer, A., Dauphin, Y., Liang, P. S. & Wortman Vaughan, J. (eds.). Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, Vol. 24. p. 20308-20320 13 p. (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems; vol. 34)(NeurIPS Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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On the Minimization Principle in the Boolean Approach to Causal Discovery
Zhang, J., 25 Nov 2017, Philosophical Logic. Current Trends in Asia: Proceedings of AWPL-TPLC 2016. Yang, S. C-M., Lee, K. Y. & Ono, H. (eds.). 1st ed. Springer Singapore, p. 79-94 16 p. (Logic in Asia: Studia Logica Library).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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On the identifiability and estimation of functional causal models in the presence of outcome-dependent selection
Zhang, K., Zhang, J., Huang, B., Schölkopf, B. H. & Glymour, C., Jun 2016, Proceedings of the 32nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2016). Ihler, A. & Janzing, D. (eds.). AUAI Press, p. 825–834 10 p.Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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An embarrassment of riches: modeling social preferences in ultimatum games
Bicchieri, C. & Zhang, J., 23 Apr 2012, Philosophy of Economics. Mäki, U. (ed.). 1st ed. Amsterdam; London: North Holland, p. 577-595 19 p. (Handbook of the philosophy of science; vol. 13).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review