Qianli

PhD Student in Philosophy, University of St Andrews

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I am a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. Before beginning my PhD at the University of St Andrews, I completed an MA in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

My primary philosophical interests are logic (especially mathematical and philosophical logic), formal epistemology, and metaphysics. I also have general interests in philosophy of science. My current work focuses on modal logic, especially bundled fragments of modal logic, e.g., noncontingency logic, together with their algebra, representation, and model theory, as well as on the philosophical applications of formal methods.

I am also mainly interested in VTubers (especially Nijisanji), cinema (especially film history), anime and manga, literature, and Japanese comedy (manzai and conte). I warmly welcome conversations on these topics.

我的兴趣包括数理逻辑和哲学逻辑、虚拟主播(尤其是彩虹社)、哲学、电影(尤其是电影史)、动漫与漫画、文学,以及日本喜剧(漫才、短剧等)。交流大欢迎 🥹

Doing justice to what we know. — Hao Wang

For publications, see the publications page. A complete curriculum vitae is available as a PDF.

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Sep 22, 2026 I gave a talk entitled “A Jónsson-Tarski-Goldblatt Representation and Frame Definability for Noncontingency Logic” at Colloquium Logicum 2026, held at the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Würzburg.

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selected publications

  1. The Elimination of Direct Self-Reference
    Qianli Zeng and Ming Hsiung
    Studia Logica, 2023