Michelle Liu

Biography

I joined Monash in July 2023. I completed my DPhil in philosophy at Oxford in 2019, followed by a two-year lectureship at the University of Hertfordshire and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. I am currently the secretary of Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Research Expertise and Interests

I work on various topics in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and aesthetics.

In philosophy of mind, I am interested in the nature of consciousness and the intuition of dualism.

In philosophy of language, I am particularly interested in the linguistic phenomenon of polysemy (words with multiple related senses). I believe that a thorough investigation of the phenomenon can help understand a wide range of philosophical debates. I am also interested in the role of mental imagery in language comprehension, especially polysemy and metaphor comprehension.

Outside issues in philosophy of mind and language, I enjoy thinking about questions in philosophy of art, such as the aesthetics of poetry, the nature of musical expressiveness, and the relationship between music and abstract painting.