Department of Philosophy
Director of Undergraduate Advising, Department of Philosophy
Associate Professor of Philosophy

Tianyu Cao's primary areas of interest include the philosophy of science, the history of science, methodology of historiography of science, metaphysics, epistemology, social and political philosophy (with special interests in philosophical issues related to modernity, post-modernity and globalism).  He is the editor of The Chinese Model of Modern Development (2005; Chinese edition 2003) and is currently working on "Philosophical Issues in Quantum Gravity," a book-length monograph.

For more Information, see:  http://www.bu.edu/philo/faculty/cao.html

Courses:

Undergraduate:
Philosophy of Science (CAS PH 270)
History of Science (CAS PH 271)
History of Modern Philosophy (CAS PH 310)
Philosophy of Cognitive Science (CAS PH 465)
Philosophy of Physics (CAS PH 470)
Marx and Marxism (CAS PH 418)
Social Philosophy (CAS PH 253)

Graduate:
Philosophy of Cognitive Science (CAS PH 665)
Philosophy of Physics: Space-time, Probability, Quantum (CAS PH 670)
Seminar on The History of Philosophy of Science (CAS PH 870)
Seminar on Contemporary Issues in the History and Philosophy of Science: Relativism and its Opponents: Positivism, Realism and Pragmatism (CAS PH 871)