Yafeng Shan

Yafeng Shan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Kent's Department of Philosophy. He holds a PhD from University College London (UCL). His research focuses on philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphilosophy, and the philosophy of social sciences, with a particular emphasis on exemplar-based approaches to scientific progress and methodology.

Key research areas include understanding scientific development through exemplary practices, evidential pluralism in social sciences, and the philosophical foundations of mixed methods research. His current work explores progress in the social sciences and critiques traditional causal frameworks.

Shan has authored/co-authored multiple influential books, including *Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science* (2020), *New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress* (2022), and *Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences* (2023, with Jon Williamson). He is also actively engaged in dialogues between philosophers and researchers across disciplines.

No academic awards or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided text. His publications reflect a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and advancing methodological debates in philosophy of science.