I am a Ph.D. student (2023–) in Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2025–26, I was a visiting student research collaborator at Princeton University. I received my B.A. (2023) in Philosophy from Fudan University, and spent a year (2021–22) at the University of California, Berkeley.

I work mainly in moral and political philosophy. I am interested in population ethics, distributive ethics, risk, and uncertainty; equality and priority; reasons and rationality; and various forms of injustice in our interpersonal and social life. I am also interested in formal theories of decision and social choice.

On a popular level, I occasionally translate academic philosophy books into Chinese: see, most recently, Epistemic Injustice (OUP | Chinese) and Why Some Things Should Not be For Sale (OUP | Chinese). I also wrote an opinionated guide in Chinese to the philosophy of Derek Parfit in the Shanghai Review of Books.

I am currently working on the following topics: risky moral decision-making, structural injustice, incomplete preferences, egalitarianism, and nonidentity.

My email is ashershang@pitt.edu. Here is my CV.

Publications

Intentions and the Limits of Autonomy.

Forthcoming in The Journal of Philosophy.

Reviews

The Future of Equality, by Shlomi Segall.

Forthcoming in Journal of Moral Philosophy.