PhD Placement Record (Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore (NUS)

2025

Hongbin Zhao. Vivacity and Determination in Hume’s Philosophical Psychology

  • Postdoctoral fellow at Peking University.

Melvin Ng. So What if Morality is Queer? A Moral Error-Theoretic Reply to the Robust Realist.

  • Instructor in the Department of Philosophy, NUS.

2024

Jeremias Koh. Utilitarianism and Effective Altruism.

  • Adjunct lecturer at Singapore Management University.

Jiachen Liu. Depiction.

  • Postdoctoral fellow in the School of Arts, Peking University.

Qiantong Wu. Exploring Dreaming Consciousness from an Enactivist Perspective.

  • Postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2023

Gabriele Escoffier. The Ways of Power: Morality and Politics in Han Fei and Thomas Hobbes.

  • Screenwriter in France

Daryl Ooi. Hume’s Fragment on Evil and its Contribution to Understanding Hume’s Philosophy of Religion

  • Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, NUS.

2020

John Robert Williams. Monk Yaodi roasts Zhuangzi: Fang Yizhi on Zhuangzi and human flourishing.

  • Lecturer at Chinese University Hong Kong

2018

Theresa Helke. On Conditionals.

  • Head of the Mathematics department at Barwaaqo University
  • Previous Job(s): Lecturer at Smith College, visiting lecturer at Barwaaqo University, visiting lecturer at Mount Holyoke College, and an assistant professor at Government Elementary College of Education (a partnership between Durbeen and the University of Karachi)

Elena Ziliotti. The Meritocratic Challenge to Democratic Theories.

  • Associate Professor at City University of Hong Kong
  • Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology
  • Previous Job(s): Postdoctoral fellow at Wuhan University

So Young Moon. On the Confucian Method of Communication in the Analects.

2017

Philippe Major. Is “Modern Confucianism” an oxymoron? Textual Authority and the Early New Confucian response the modern tradition of anti-traditionalism.

  • Lecturer at Lancaster University
  • Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Basel
  • Previous Job(s): Postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven

2016

Tsai Miao Kun. Moral Dispute in Early Chinese Thought: On a three way conversation between the Mohist, Mencius and Zhuangzhi.

  • Postdoctoral Fellow at National Taiwan University

2015

Zhang Ming. Rights in Context.

2013

Munir Hussain Talukder. Identification, Self-Realization and Spirituality.

  • Professor at Jahangirnagar University

Anosike Wilson. Towards a moralization of the “war on terror”.

  • Lecturer at Imo State University

2012

Cansu Canca. An Ethical Analysis of an Organ Market: In Defence of Buying and Selling Kidneys.

  • Associate Professor at Northeastern University
  • Founder and Director of the AI Ethics Lab.
  • Previous Job(s): Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the University of Hong Kong

Wong Soo Lam George. Reasons, Agency and Responsibility: A Defence of Soft Compatibilism.

  • Senior Lecturer at Singapore University of Social Sciences

2011

Jacklyn Cleofas. Fallible Omniscience: Wittgenstein’s Argument Against Moral Naturalism.

  • Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines Los Banos
  • Previous Job(s): Assistant Professor at Ateneo de Manila University

Li Wanquan. Family-Related Partiality: Communitarianism, Care Ethics and Early Confucianism.