Logic · Argumentation · Collective Choice

Weiwei Chen

Associate Professor · Sun Yat-sen University

I study how individual arguments, judgments, and preferences can become rational collective decisions.

Portrait of Weiwei Chen

I am an associate professor at the Institute of Logic and Cognition and Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, China.

My research studies formal models of collective argumentation and their connections to social choice theory, logic, and artificial intelligence. I ask how individual argumentation frameworks, judgments, preferences, or votes can be aggregated into collective outcomes while preserving rationality, semantic, and strategic properties.

Recent work develops preservation results for collective argumentation, topological restrictions that avoid impossibility results, dynamic revision and contraction operators, proportional acceptability, and strategyproof collective argumentation.

  • Collective argumentation
  • Formal argumentation semantics
  • Social choice and aggregation
  • Logic and AI
  • Dynamic and strategic reasoning

Publications

This page is my curated publication list and includes journal articles, conference papers, books, book chapters, and Chinese-language publications. DBLP indexes a useful but partial subset of my computer-science-related work.

Selected Publications

Journal Articles and Conference Papers

Books and Book Chapters

  • 陈伟伟, 《论辩聚合:社会选择理论的新视角》. 人民出版社, forthcoming.
  • 陈伟伟, 《阿姆斯特丹大学的逻辑学传统与硕士教育》. 载《哲学教育评论(第三辑):逻辑学专辑——推古论今辩东西》, 张伟主编, 刘海林执行主编, 商务印书馆, 2025. Book notice
  • 刘小龙、陈伟伟, 《论证挖掘与论证形式化》第十二章. 鞠实儿等著, 科学出版社, 2022.
  • 陈伟伟 and Ulle Endriss, 《融合与修正:跨文化交流的逻辑与认知研究》第五章. 鞠实儿等著, 经济科学出版社, 2020.

Selected Talks

  • Axiom- and Data-Driven Collective Argumentation. Ruohai Logic Forum, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China, May 2026. [Event page]
  • Constructing the Revision and Contraction Operators for Dynamic Collective Argumentation. The 3rd International Workshop on Logic for Multi-Agent Systems, Zhejiang, China, June 2024.
  • Collective Argumentation: Static and Dynamic Perspectives. Seminar at PKU Center of Logic, Language, and Cognition, Beijing, China, Mar. 2024. [Event page]
  • Dynamically Rational Collective Argumentation. The 3rd International Workshop on Logic and Philosophy, Beijing, China, May 2024. [Event page]
  • Dynamic Collective Argumentation. Trends in Logic, Online, Nov. 2023. [Event page]
  • Applying the Axiomatic Method to Collective Argumentation. Individual and Collective Reasoning Group Seminar, University of Luxembourg, Feb. 2022.
  • Collective Argumentation with Topological Restrictions. CLAR-2021, Online, Oct. 2021. [Event page]
  • Collective Argumentation: The Case of Aggregation of Support-Relations of Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks. TARK-2021, Online, June 2021.
  • Aggregation of Support-Relations of Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks. AAMAS-2020, Online, May 2020.
  • Aggregating Extensions of Abstract Argumentation Frameworks. Computational Social Choice Seminar, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Sept. 2018. [Event page]
  • What Can We Expect from Consensus Decision-making? Cool Logic Seminar, University of Amsterdam, Sept. 2017. [Event page]

Research Grants

  • 公理化群体论辩的可能性和防操纵性研究. Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong, China, 2024A1515012540.
  • 基于社会选择方法的论辩聚合理论研究. National Social Science Fund of China, 22FZXB093.
  • 公理化群体论辩理论. Ministry of Education of China, Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Fund, 22YJC72040001.
  • 形式论辩中的双极论辩框架与分级论辩语义聚合研究. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2019M663352.

Service

  • Program committee member: AAMAS, ECAI, IJCAI, PRICAI, CLAR, and LNGAI.
  • Reviewer: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, and Studies in Logic.

Students

I welcome MA students interested in formal argumentation, social choice theory, logic in AI, computational models of argument, and collective decision-making.

Academic profile

Contact


Associate Professor
Institute of Logic and Cognition
Department of Philosophy
Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou 510275, China

Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, then Associate Researcher, Sun Yat-sen University

Education

  • PhD in Logic, Sun Yat-sen University
  • Visiting PhD Student, ILLC, University of Amsterdam
  • MSc in Logic, Sun Yat-sen University
  • BA in Software Engineering, Guangzhou University
Last updated: August 20, 2026