▸ Under review/in progress
  1. T. Jarmużek, M. Klonowski and J. Yan. Logic with relational properties in general. Manuscript. 2025
  2. J. Yan. Weakening Effects under Attitude Verbs: A Case of Monotonicity Reasoning in Desires. Under review.
  3. J. Yan, M. Aloni, F. Liu. Epistemic Might in Multi-Agent Settings. Under review.
  4. J. Yan, M. Aloni. Knowing and Believing an Epistemic Possibility. Under review.
  5. L, Li and J, Yan. A Logical Characterization of Filter Bubbles under Personalized Feeds. Manuscript. 2025
▸ Published/accepted

  • 2025:
  1. J.Yan, C. Ju, W. Wang. Disjunction and Parentheses. In Yan, J., Westerstahl, D., Liu, M., & Yang, X. (eds.). The Connectives in Logic and Language: Fourth Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning. Forthcoming
  2. J. Yan, M. Aloni, and F. Liu. Perspective Shifts: Formalizing Epistemic Might in Multi-agent Models. Proceedings of AWPL 2024. Accepted
  3. W. Wang and J, Yan, A propositional team logic with intersecting disjunction. Accepted by Lori 10.
  4. J. Yan and Q. He. A Logic for Intrumental Obligation. Accepted by AWPL 2025
  • 2023:
  1. K. Xie, J. Yan. A Logic for Desire Based on Causal Inference. Journal of Logic and Computation [PDF]. 2023.09.
  • 2022:
  1. J. Yan. The Overtone of Monotonicity under Desire. ESSIILI 2022 Student Session. https://doi.org/10.21942/uva.20368506.v3 
  • 2021:
  1. K. Xie, & J. Yan. A Logic for Desire Based on Causal Inference. In International Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Interaction (pp. 273-287). Springer, Cham. 2021 [PDF]
  • 2020:
  1. J. Yan, & F. Liu. Monotonic Opaqueness in Deontic Contexts. In Context, Conflict and Reasoning (pp. 87-96). Springer, Singapore. 2020 [PDF]
  2. Jialiang Yan. Review of Nominals of Possible Worlds. Studies in Logic, 2020(5): 97-100. 2020 (published in Chinese) [PDF] 闫佳亮. 《可能世界的名字》述评[J]. 逻辑学研究, 2010, 13(5): 97-100.
▸ Presentations (selection)

  • 2024:
  1. Reasoning about desire. J. Yan. The Nihil Workshop. Amsterdam, NL. Feb, 2024.
  2. Perspective Shifts: Formalizing Epistemic Might in Multi-agent Models. J. Yan. The 6th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL2024). Sapporo, Japan. Mar, 2024.
  3. Ordering in Disjunctive Statements: Brackets and Disjunctions. Y, Ji and J. Yan. The 4th Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning (TLLM2024). Beijing, China. Mar, 2024.
  4. Epistemic Might, Belief and Knowledge. J. Yan. The 6th Logic Forum of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region. Baoding, Hebei. Jun, 2024
  5. Perspective Shifts: Formalizing Epistemic Might in Multi-agent Models. Beijing Logic Society Annual Meeting, Beijing, November 2024
  6. Instrumental Obligation = Priority + Causality. International Conference on Logic and Games, Taiyuan, October 2024
  7. Ordered Disjunction. 12th Tsinghua Logic Seminar, Beijing, August 2024
  8. Bilateral State-based Epistemic Logic. 4th Tsinghua Summer School, Beijing, July 2024
  • 2023:
  1. Free choice triggered by non-disjunctive statements. J. Yan. The 10th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-10). Oct, 2023
  2. Formalizing and reasoning epistemic might. J. Yan. Nihil seminar. ILLC. Jun, 2023
  3. The Overtone of Monotonicity under Desire and Deontic modals. J. Yan. On the conference Logic Meets Norms. Tsinghua University, Beijing. May, 2023
  4. Knowing and Believing an Epistemic Possibility. J. Yan, M. Aloni. On LIRA seminar. ILLC, the Netherlands. Feb, 2023
  • 2022:
  1. The Overtone of Monotonicity under Desire. J. Yan. On the 33rd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Student Session (ESSLLI 2022 Student Session). Galway, Ireland.
  3. Monotonicity under Knowledge: Epistemic Possibility in Logic and Conversations. J. Yan (joint work with Maria Aloni). On the 11th Scandinavian Logic Symposium (SLSS 2022). Bergen, Norway.
  4. Monotonic Inferences under Epistemic Verbs. J. Yan. On January Project – Team Semantics and Dependence: Linguistic and Philosophical Applications/ MLC Seminar, ILLC, the Netherlands
  • 2021:
  1. A Logic for Desire Based on Causal Inference. K. Xie, & J. Yan. On the 8th International Conference on Logic, Rationality and Interaction (Lori 2021). Xi’an Jiaotong University, China/The 9th Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications. Online.
  2. Specificity and Ignorance in Indefinites. B. Li & J. Yan. On the course Structure of Semantics (online), Spring, ILLC, the Netherlands
  • 2020:
  1. Monotonic Opaqueness in Deontic Contexts. J. Yan (joint work with Fenrong Liu). On the 5th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL2020). Zhejiang University, China
  2. The Theory of Type and  Categorial Grammar. J. Yan. On the Tsinghua formal semantics seminar, Tsinghua University, China 
  • 2018:
  1. A Modal Logic with Predicate Abstraction and Functions. The 4th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic. Beijing, China, 2018.
  2. Validity and Normativity of Logic. National Conference of Modern Logic 2018. Xiamen, China.
▸ Translations
  1. 《数理逻辑初阶》〔美〕雷蒙德·斯穆里安/著，刘新文、张瑜、荣华夏、闫佳亮、张立英/译，中国轻工业出版社，2019年2月。
  2. 《数理逻辑是什么》〔英〕约翰·N．克罗斯利/著，夏素敏、闫佳亮/译，中国轻工业出版社，2018年11月。
▸ PhD Dissertation:

Monotonicity in Intensional Contexts

Weakening and pragmatic effects under modals and attitudes