Chenhao Lu
I am a third-year PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Paolo Santorio.
I work on philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of emotion.
I received my BA and MA in philosophy from East China Normal University. I grew up in Shanghai, China.
When I’m not doing philosophy, I enjoy watching films and listening to music. David Lynch and Kiyoshi Kurosawa are my favorite directors, and I’m a huge fan of NewJeans.
You may reach me at clu12348 [at] umd.edu
Work in Progress
- [a paper on modal knowledge]
- [a paper on epistemic uses of ‘ought’]
- [a paper on emotional rationality]
- [a paper on belief reports]
Recent Presentations
Asian Epistemology Network Meeting, Zhejiang University, November 2026
Philosophy of Language Association Conference, UCLA, September 2026
On the pragmatics of belief ascriptions
Eastern APA, Baltimore, 2026
Teaching
Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland:
- PHIL 100: Introduction to Philosophy (2026)
- PHIL 205: Are Sports Ethical? (2026)
- PHIL 271: Symbolic Logic (2025)
- PHIL 203: The Rights and Wrongs of Killing People (2025)
Misc
Some talks I’ve given at UMD; feel free to email me for the handouts!
- How to praise a movie you haven’t watched (Grad WIP, 2026)
- The psychology of ought-judgments (Grad WIP, 2026)
- Shouldn’t feel special: agglomeration and the logic of epistemic ought (WIP, 2026)
- On the pragmatics of belief ascriptions (Meaning Meeting, 2025)
- (In)Decisive modal knowledge (Logic Seminar, 2025)
- Is modal knowledge factive? (Meaning Meeting, 2024)