Our People
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Main Faculty
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QU Hsueh Ming
Professor
Head of Department
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/5305-hsueh-ming-qu/about | https://nus.academia.edu/HsuehQu
Teaching Areas: Early Modern Philosophy, Kant
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TANG Weng Hong
Associate Professor
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/1525
Research Areas: Epistemology
Teaching Areas: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Probability
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Ben Richard Kelsey BLUMSON
Associate Professor
Graduate Co-ordinator
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/1777-ben-richard-kelsey-blumson
Teaching Areas: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics
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John HOLBO
Associate Professor
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/780
Teaching Areas: Philosophy and Literature, Greek Philosophy, Aesthetics, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche
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LOY Hui Chieh
Associate Professor
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/785-huichieh-loy
Research Areas: Chinese Philosophy
Teaching Areas: Chinese Philosophy, Greek Philosophy
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Michael Pelczar
Associate Professor
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/881
Teaching Areas: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics
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Neiladri SINHABABU
Associate Professor
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/1779
Research Areas: Ethics, Nietzsche, Political Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind and Action
Teaching Areas: Ethics, Nietzsche, Political Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind and Action
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Saranindra Nath TAGORE
Associate Professor
Honours Co-ordinator
SEP Co-ordinator
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/620
Teaching Areas: Indian Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
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Ethan JERZAK
Assistant Professor
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/15883
Teaching Areas: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic
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Lavinia PICOLLO
Assistant Professor
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/19619
Research Areas: Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language
Teaching Areas: Logic, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics
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Abelard PODGORSKI
Assistant Professor
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Moonyoung SONG
Assistant Professor
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/21320
Teaching Areas: Aesthetics, Ethics
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Daniel WAXMAN
Assistant Professor
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/19616
Teaching Areas: Philosophy of Mathematics, Political Philosophy, Logic, Ethics, Metaphysics
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Isaac WILHELM
Assistant Professor
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/20834
Research Areas: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics
Teaching Areas: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Feminist Philosophy, Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of Biology
Neil BARTON
Lecturer
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Cathay LIU
Senior Lecturer
Profile page: https://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/about/faculty/cathay-liu/
Teaching Areas: Early Modern Philosophy, especially Descartes
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LEE Wang Yen
Lecturer
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/7950-wang-yen-lee
Research Areas: General Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Bayesianism
Teaching Areas: Logic, Effective Reasoning, Philosophy of Science
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Jonathan Y. H. SIM
Lecturer
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/13806-jonathan-y-h-sim
Teaching Areas: Computational Reasoning, Chinese Philosophy
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Daryl OOI
Lecturer
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/20479
Research Areas: Early Modern Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Singapore Studies
Teaching Areas: Everyday Ethics in Singapore, Chinese Philosophy, Philosophical Pedagogy
Joint Faculty
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Andrew M BAILEY
Professor
Humanities (Philosophy), Yale-NUS College
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/3670
Teaching Areas: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion
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CHONG Chi Tat
University Professor
Department of Mathematics
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Neil MEHTA
Associate Professor
Humanities (Philosophy), Yale-NUS College
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Matthew D WALKER
Associate Professor
Humanities (Philosophy), Yale-NUS College
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Christine TAN
Lecturer
NUS College
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/20622
Research Areas: Chinese Philosophy (Classical Chinese Philosophy, Daoism, Neo-Daoism/Wei-Jin Xuanxue, Chan Buddhism, Continental Philosophy (Psychoanalysis, Post-structuralism, Critical Theory), Social Epistemology, Post-colonialism
Teaching Areas: Philosophy and Political Thought 1 and 2, Conceptions of Freedom in Classical Chinese Philosophy, Readings in Neo-Daoism, Perspectives on Gender in Chinese Philosophy, Global Narratives
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Joel CHOW
Lecturer
Department of Philosophy, NUS College
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/3328
Research Areas: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; Political Philosophy; Political Epistemology
Teaching Areas: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; Political Philosophy
Amy RAMIREZ
Lecturer
Department of Philosophy, NUS College
Research Areas: Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, Feminist Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy
Teaching Areas: Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Race, Moral Philosophy
Maximilian TEGTMEYER
Lecturer
Department of Philosophy, NUS College
Profile page: https://philpeople.org/profiles/maximilian-tegtmeyer
Research Areas: Kant and German Idealism, Early Modern Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology
Teaching Areas: Human Nature, Epistemology
Bart Van WASSENHOVE
Senior Lecturer
Department of Philosophy, NUS College
Research Areas: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, particularly Roman Stoicism.
Teaching Areas: Global Narratives, Moral Emotions in Everyday Life, and Technologies of the Self: from Socrates to Self-Help
James Ernest PENNER
Professor
Department of Philosophy, NUS Law
Research Areas: Moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophy of rights and legal reasoning, law of trusts
Teaching Areas: Philosophy of law, law of trusts
Julian SAVULESCU
Professor
Department of Philosophy, Medicine
Research Areas/Teaching Areas: Medical ethics, gene ethics, neuro ethics, AI ethics/tech ethic
David MERRY
Lecturer
Department of Philosophy, NUS College
Profile Page: https://philpeople.org/profiles/david-merry
Research Areas: Ancient Greek & Roman Philosophy, Normative Ethics, Meta-Ethics, Applied Ethics (esp. medical ethics & environmental ethics).
Teaching Areas: Environmental Philosophy & Policy, Happiness and Understanding Nature
Other Faculty
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TEN Chin Liew
Emeritus Professor
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/23972
Teaching Areas: Legal Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
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YEO Shang Long
Senior Tutor / NUS Overseas Graduate Scholar
Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/11436
Teaching Areas: Ethics, Political Philosophy, PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics)
Research Areas: Normative Ethics, Metaethics, PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics)