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

I work mainly in moral and political philosophy. I am most interested in population ethics, distributive ethics, risk, and uncertainty; equality and priority; 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 | forthcoming) 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.