Lei Zhong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3840106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lei Zhong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lei |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhong |
| SIGNATURE | ZHONG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7937-5379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Advances in Zooarchaeological and Biomolecular Approaches to the Study of Goats in Ancient China
Goats played important economic, ecological, and social roles in ancient China. After their initial domestication in western Eurasia, goats entered China through trans-Eurasian interaction networks and were gradually incorporated into diverse agropastoral systems, ritual practices, and regional economies. However, goats have often remained analytically obscured within broad categories such as “sheep/goat” or “ovicaprids”, while relevant evidence …
A Hierarchical Federated Continual Learning Framework for Dynamic and Heterogeneous IoV
Traditional federated learning (FL) architectures face challenges in handling heterogeneous data and dynamic tasks, often resulting in catastrophic forgetting when new training tasks are continuously introduced. Federated continual learning (FCL) integrates the privacy-preserving capabilities of FL with the knowledge retention and incremental update mechanisms of continual learning, effectively mitigating catastrophic forgetting and protecting us…
An Emergentist Approach to Phenomenal Causality
Philosophers have long debated whether phenomenal properties can play genuine causal roles. In this article, I aim to develop an emergentist approach to phenomenal causality, an approach that attributes novel causal powers to phenomenal properties and rejects the causal closure of physics. I also compare this emergentist approach with an influential competing approach to phenomenal causality, the compatibilist account, which postulates a model of…
Biogas Residue Carbonization Rather Than Biogas Residue Promoted the Yield of Pakchoi and Reduced the N 2 O Production Potential in Horticultural Soil
Biogas residue (BR) and biogas residue‐derived biochar (BRC) are widely used as substitute for inorganic Nitrogen (N) fertilizers in vegetable production. Yet, their comparative research on vegetable production and N 2 O production was still lacking. Here, the pot experiment of pakchoi ( Brassica chinensis ) with a gradient of BR or BRC application rates (0, 30%, 60%, 100% w/w) was carried out to simulate different N fertilizer substitution rates…
Phenomenal knowledge and phenomenal causality
There has been extensive debate over whether we can have phenomenal knowledge in the case of epiphenomenalism. This article aims to bring that debate to a close. I first develop a refined causal account of knowledge—one that is modest enough to avoid various putative problems, yet sufficiently robust to undermine the epiphenomenalist position. I then consider and reject several possible responses that an epiphenomenalist might offer. The discussi…
Relationship between childhood obesity and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
The relationship between childhood obesity and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases (CCVD) remains ambiguous. This study aims to explore the causal relationship between childhood obesity and CCVD utilizing the two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) method. Furthermore, the study investigates the prognostic implications of obesity on CCVD, utilizing insights derived from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study 2021. This study utilized po…
Remnant cholesterol and aortic aneurysm risk
Aortic aneurysm (AA) is a life-threatening condition with growing global health implications. This study assessed the global burden and temporal trends of AA and explored the causal effect of remnant cholesterol (RC) on aortic diseases using Mendelian randomization (MR). Data from the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) 2021 were used to estimate age-standardized death rate (ASDR), age-standardized DALY rate (ASDALYR), and their annual percentage cha…
Conservation and restoration of the painted wooden horse unearthed from the tomb of Murong Zhi
Analysis of the indoor wind environment in buildings on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau of China
The Dege Scripture Printing House (DSPH), built in 1729, is located on the southeastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and serves as a significant center for Tibetan Buddhism culture. Compared to typical Tibetan architecture, DSPH features unique characteristics, such as its substantial size, diverse structures, and adaptability to the local climate. The surrounding topography of DSPH primarily comprises plateaus and hilly plains, and the regi…
How does housing affordability affect migration intentions of married migrant workers? Social integration as a mediating variable
Increasing migrant workers’ belongingness to the locality is an important step in accelerating high-quality urbanization. Settlement intention can largely indicate this sense of belongingness, which is crucially affected by housing and social integration. Although the settlement intention of migrant workers has been widely investigated, inadequate attention has been paid to hukou transfer intention, which reflects the unique institutional arrange…
Global prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum coinfection in wild and domesticated animals
Phenomenal Concepts, Direct Reference, and the Problem of Double Aspect
Synthetic physicalism-understood as the view that while mental concepts are distinct from physical concepts, mental properties are nonetheless identical to physical properties-is the dominant type of reductive physicalism in the philosophy of mind. With a focus on phenomenal concepts, this article examines two competing versions of synthetic physicalism: the demonstrative approach and the constitutive approach, both of which attempt to cash out t…
Quercetin promotes cutaneous wound healing in mice through Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway
Physicalism without supervenience
Bibliometric Analysis of Current Status on Bioremediation of Petroleum Contaminated Soils during 2000–2019
Petroleum contaminated soils have become a great concern worldwide. Bioremediation has been widely recognized as one of the most promising technologies and has played an important role in solving the issues of petroleum contaminated soils. In this study, a bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer based on Web of Science data was conducted to provide an overview on the field of bioremediation of petroleum contaminated soils. A total of 7575 articles …
Moral Functionalism and Moral Nonnaturalism
Mental Causation
In this book, Thomas Kroedel develops a novel account of mental causation, allegedly available to both nonreductive physicalists and naturalistic dualists. This account draws on the difference-making ideas of causation, including Lewis’s classical counterfactual theory as well as the more recent causal modeling approaches. This book is rich, engaging, and clearly written. Although I have some worries about the main arguments (as I will explain la…
Intervention, Fixation, and Supervenient Causation
A growing number of philosophers are bringing interventionism into the field of supervenient causation. Many argue that interventionist supervenient causation is exempted from the fixability condition. However, this approach looks ad hoc, inconsistent with the general interventionist requirement on fixation. Moreover, it leads to false judgments about the causal efficacy of supervenient/subvenient properties. This article aims to develop a novel …
Prioritarianism Without Consequentialism
According to prioritarianism, an influential theory of distributive justice, we have a stronger (non-egalitarian) reason to benefit people the worse off these people are (Parfit 2012). Many authors have adopted a consequentialist version of prioritarianism. On this account, we have a consequentialist reason to benefit the worse off because the state of affairs where the worse off gains a given amount of utility is more valuable than the state of …
Semantic Normativity and Semantic Causality
Semantic normativism , which is the view that semantic properties/concepts are some kind of normative properties/concepts, has become increasingly influential in contemporary meta‐semantics. In this paper, I aim to argue that semantic normativism has difficulty accommodating the causal efficacy of semantic properties. In specific, I raise an exclusion problem for semantic normativism, inspired by the exclusion problem in the philosophy of mind. M…
An Explanatory Challenge to Moral Reductionism
It is generally believed that moral reductionism is immune from notorious problems in moral metaphysics and epistemology, such as the problem of moral explanation – it is at least on this dimension that moral reductionism scores better than moral anti‐reductionism. However, in this article I reject this popular view. First, I argue that moral reductionism fails to help vindicate the explanatory efficacy of moral properties because the reductionis…
Can Counterfactuals Solve the Exclusion Problem
A quite popular approach to solving the Causal Exclusion Problem is to adopt a counterfactual theory of causation. In this paper, I distinguish three versions of the Causal Exclusion Argument. I argue that the counterfactualist approach can block the first two exclusion arguments, because the Causal Inheritance Principle and the Upward Causation Principle upon which the two arguments are based respectively are problematic from the perspective of …
Can Counterfactuals Solve the Exclusion Problem
A quite popular approach to solving the Causal Exclusion Problem is to adopt a counterfactual theory of causation. In this paper, I distinguish three versions of the Causal Exclusion Argument. I argue that the counterfactualist approach can block the first two exclusion arguments, because the Causal Inheritance Principle and the Upward Causation Principle upon which the two arguments are based respectively are problematic from the perspective of …
Phenomenal Concepts, Direct Reference, and the Problem of Double Aspect
Synthetic physicalism-understood as the view that while mental concepts are distinct from physical concepts, mental properties are nonetheless identical to physical properties-is the dominant type of reductive physicalism in the philosophy of mind. With a focus on phenomenal concepts, this article examines two competing versions of synthetic physicalism: the demonstrative approach and the constitutive approach, both of which attempt to cash out t…
Can Counterfactuals Solve the Exclusion Problem
A quite popular approach to solving the Causal Exclusion Problem is to adopt a counterfactual theory of causation. In this paper, I distinguish three versions of the Causal Exclusion Argument. I argue that the counterfactualist approach can block the first two exclusion arguments, because the Causal Inheritance Principle and the Upward Causation Principle upon which the two arguments are based respectively are problematic from the perspective of …
An Explanatory Challenge to Moral Reductionism
It is generally believed that moral reductionism is immune from notorious problems in moral metaphysics and epistemology, such as the problem of moral explanation – it is at least on this dimension that moral reductionism scores better than moral anti‐reductionism. However, in this article I reject this popular view. First, I argue that moral reductionism fails to help vindicate the explanatory efficacy of moral properties because the reductionis…
Semantic Normativity and Semantic Causality
Semantic normativism , which is the view that semantic properties/concepts are some kind of normative properties/concepts, has become increasingly influential in contemporary meta‐semantics. In this paper, I aim to argue that semantic normativism has difficulty accommodating the causal efficacy of semantic properties. In specific, I raise an exclusion problem for semantic normativism, inspired by the exclusion problem in the philosophy of mind. M…
Prioritarianism Without Consequentialism
According to prioritarianism, an influential theory of distributive justice, we have a stronger (non-egalitarian) reason to benefit people the worse off these people are (Parfit 2012). Many authors have adopted a consequentialist version of prioritarianism. On this account, we have a consequentialist reason to benefit the worse off because the state of affairs where the worse off gains a given amount of utility is more valuable than the state of …
Intervention, Fixation, and Supervenient Causation
A growing number of philosophers are bringing interventionism into the field of supervenient causation. Many argue that interventionist supervenient causation is exempted from the fixability condition. However, this approach looks ad hoc, inconsistent with the general interventionist requirement on fixation. Moreover, it leads to false judgments about the causal efficacy of supervenient/subvenient properties. This article aims to develop a novel …
Physicalism without supervenience
Bibliometric Analysis of Current Status on Bioremediation of Petroleum Contaminated Soils during 2000–2019
Petroleum contaminated soils have become a great concern worldwide. Bioremediation has been widely recognized as one of the most promising technologies and has played an important role in solving the issues of petroleum contaminated soils. In this study, a bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer based on Web of Science data was conducted to provide an overview on the field of bioremediation of petroleum contaminated soils. A total of 7575 articles …
Moral Functionalism and Moral Nonnaturalism
Mental Causation
In this book, Thomas Kroedel develops a novel account of mental causation, allegedly available to both nonreductive physicalists and naturalistic dualists. This account draws on the difference-making ideas of causation, including Lewis’s classical counterfactual theory as well as the more recent causal modeling approaches. This book is rich, engaging, and clearly written. Although I have some worries about the main arguments (as I will explain la…
Quercetin promotes cutaneous wound healing in mice through Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway
Analysis of the indoor wind environment in buildings on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau of China
The Dege Scripture Printing House (DSPH), built in 1729, is located on the southeastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and serves as a significant center for Tibetan Buddhism culture. Compared to typical Tibetan architecture, DSPH features unique characteristics, such as its substantial size, diverse structures, and adaptability to the local climate. The surrounding topography of DSPH primarily comprises plateaus and hilly plains, and the regi…
How does housing affordability affect migration intentions of married migrant workers? Social integration as a mediating variable
Increasing migrant workers’ belongingness to the locality is an important step in accelerating high-quality urbanization. Settlement intention can largely indicate this sense of belongingness, which is crucially affected by housing and social integration. Although the settlement intention of migrant workers has been widely investigated, inadequate attention has been paid to hukou transfer intention, which reflects the unique institutional arrange…
Global prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum coinfection in wild and domesticated animals
Phenomenal Concepts, Direct Reference, and the Problem of Double Aspect
Synthetic physicalism-understood as the view that while mental concepts are distinct from physical concepts, mental properties are nonetheless identical to physical properties-is the dominant type of reductive physicalism in the philosophy of mind. With a focus on phenomenal concepts, this article examines two competing versions of synthetic physicalism: the demonstrative approach and the constitutive approach, both of which attempt to cash out t…
Biogas Residue Carbonization Rather Than Biogas Residue Promoted the Yield of Pakchoi and Reduced the N 2 O Production Potential in Horticultural Soil
Biogas residue (BR) and biogas residue‐derived biochar (BRC) are widely used as substitute for inorganic Nitrogen (N) fertilizers in vegetable production. Yet, their comparative research on vegetable production and N 2 O production was still lacking. Here, the pot experiment of pakchoi ( Brassica chinensis ) with a gradient of BR or BRC application rates (0, 30%, 60%, 100% w/w) was carried out to simulate different N fertilizer substitution rates…
Phenomenal knowledge and phenomenal causality
There has been extensive debate over whether we can have phenomenal knowledge in the case of epiphenomenalism. This article aims to bring that debate to a close. I first develop a refined causal account of knowledge—one that is modest enough to avoid various putative problems, yet sufficiently robust to undermine the epiphenomenalist position. I then consider and reject several possible responses that an epiphenomenalist might offer. The discussi…
Relationship between childhood obesity and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
The relationship between childhood obesity and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases (CCVD) remains ambiguous. This study aims to explore the causal relationship between childhood obesity and CCVD utilizing the two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) method. Furthermore, the study investigates the prognostic implications of obesity on CCVD, utilizing insights derived from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study 2021. This study utilized po…
Remnant cholesterol and aortic aneurysm risk
Aortic aneurysm (AA) is a life-threatening condition with growing global health implications. This study assessed the global burden and temporal trends of AA and explored the causal effect of remnant cholesterol (RC) on aortic diseases using Mendelian randomization (MR). Data from the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) 2021 were used to estimate age-standardized death rate (ASDR), age-standardized DALY rate (ASDALYR), and their annual percentage cha…
Conservation and restoration of the painted wooden horse unearthed from the tomb of Murong Zhi
Advances in Zooarchaeological and Biomolecular Approaches to the Study of Goats in Ancient China
Goats played important economic, ecological, and social roles in ancient China. After their initial domestication in western Eurasia, goats entered China through trans-Eurasian interaction networks and were gradually incorporated into diverse agropastoral systems, ritual practices, and regional economies. However, goats have often remained analytically obscured within broad categories such as “sheep/goat” or “ovicaprids”, while relevant evidence …
A Hierarchical Federated Continual Learning Framework for Dynamic and Heterogeneous IoV
Traditional federated learning (FL) architectures face challenges in handling heterogeneous data and dynamic tasks, often resulting in catastrophic forgetting when new training tasks are continuously introduced. Federated continual learning (FCL) integrates the privacy-preserving capabilities of FL with the knowledge retention and incremental update mechanisms of continual learning, effectively mitigating catastrophic forgetting and protecting us…
An Emergentist Approach to Phenomenal Causality
Philosophers have long debated whether phenomenal properties can play genuine causal roles. In this article, I aim to develop an emergentist approach to phenomenal causality, an approach that attributes novel causal powers to phenomenal properties and rejects the causal closure of physics. I also compare this emergentist approach with an influential competing approach to phenomenal causality, the compatibilist account, which postulates a model of…
Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (8 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (5 works) · Metaphysics (5 works) · Physicalism (5 works) · Causation (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)