Hi! My name is Davide, and I am a philosopher.

I'm a postdoctoral fellow at Fudan University’s School of Philosophy, where I work with Prof. Huang Yong. I'm also an assistant editor at The Journal of East Asian Philosophy, and I run with my co-investigators “Is There a Place for Religious Value?”, a two-years research project funded by the Global Philosophy of Religion Project 2 that brings together philosophers and psychologists.

My work spans across Chinese philosophy, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of religion, and metaphysics. Lately, I've been developing a view inspired by the Zhuangzi 莊子 on which reality, while having an objective structure, does not by itself settle what things and kinds there are: settling that requires a constructive role on our part that is played by our perspectives. I use this view to rethink creativity, agency, and the relation between mind and world. I also do research on religion. Recently, I have been interested in using theoretical tools from the analytic philosophy of religion and the cognitive science of religion to uncover similarities that religious traditions share beneath their differences.

Before joining Fudan, I was a research fellow at Hokkaido University's Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience (CHAIN), supported by the CANON Foundation, and before then a research fellow at National Taiwan University. I received my PhD in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia, where I worked with Catherine Prueitt, Edward Slingerland, and Evan Thompson.

You can reach me at zappulli.davide@gmail.com. To see my CV, click the button below.