Yue Dan


About

Yue Dan was born in Shanxi Province, China, in 1994. She received her B.A. in Philosophy from Shanxi University in 2016 and her M.A. in Philosophy from Beijing Normal University in 2019. In the same year, she was awarded a scholarship through the CSC–Freie Universität Berlin Joint Program to pursue her doctoral studies at the Institute of Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wenchao Li and Prof. Dr. Anne Eusterschulte. She successfully defended her dissertation in October 2025, earning the distinction magna cum laude.
Her research centers on the philosophy of Leibniz, especially his metaphysics and logic. She is also interested in medieval and early modern metaphysics, including Islamic philosophy and scholastic traditions.
Yue Dan has presented her work at major international conferences, including the XI International Leibniz Congress (Hanover, 2023), the XXV World Congress of Philosophy (Rome, 2024), and colloquia organized by the Sodalitas Leibnitiana in Italy (2025).
She received the Merit Award of the Logos & Pneuma Research Student Forum in 2018. From 2023 to 2024, she contributed to the co-editing of the four-volume proceedings of the XI International Leibniz Congress. In 2025, she was awarded a publication grant from the Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft of Freie Universität Berlin to support the publication of her dissertation.

Research areas

  • Leibniz's metaphysics and logic
  • Medieval and early modern metaphysics, including Islamic philosophy and scholastic traditions

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Publications by Yue Dan

Toward the Concept of the Pre-established Curve
Studia Leibnitiana – Sonderhefte, Volume 61