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QU Hsueh Ming

Professor
Head of Department

Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/5305-hsueh-ming-qu/abouthttps://nus.academia.edu/HsuehQu

Teaching Areas: Early Modern Philosophy, Kant

TANG Weng Hong

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

John Christian HOLBO

John HOLBO

Associate Professor

Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/780

Teaching Areas: Philosophy and Literature, Greek Philosophy, Aesthetics, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche

 

LOY Hui Chieh

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

Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/8305

Teaching Areas: Ethics, Greek Philosophy

Moonyoung Song

Moonyoung SONG

Assistant Professor

Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/21320

Teaching Areas: Aesthetics, Ethics

Daniel Waxman

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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Research Areas: Philosophy of Mathematics, Mathematical Logic, Epistemology

Teaching Areas: Computational Reasoning, Logic, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Language

Cathay Liu

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

Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/24

Teaching Areas: Computability Theory

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Neil MEHTA

Associate Professor
Humanities (Philosophy), Yale-NUS College

Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/3659

Teaching Areas: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology

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Matthew D WALKER

Associate Professor
Humanities (Philosophy), Yale-NUS College

Profile page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/3660

Teaching Areas: Greek Philosophy

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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)