Graduate Supervision
Faculty at NUS Philosophy supervise graduate research on topics ranging from analytic metaphysics to applied ethics, drawing on, and often synthesizing, the philosophical traditions of China, India, and Europe. Across campus, Yale-NUS College boasts a dynamic philosophy unit with an additional eight faculty who are eligible to supervise graduate research at NUS. As a group, the NUS and affiliated Yale-NUS graduate faculty includes twenty-one philosophers actively working on projects in moral and political philosophy; metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind; Chinese philosophy, Indian philosophy, and the history of Western philosophy. Below is a list of some main research areas, with an indication of faculty members working in each.
Philosophy of Mind
Logic and Epistemology
Daniel Waxman (NUS)
Ethan Jerzak (NUS)
Lavinia Picollo (NUS)
Neil Mehta (Yale-NUS)
Robert Beddor (NUS)
Weng Hong Tang (NUS)
Zach Barnett (NUS)
History of Western Philosophy
Cathay Liu (Yale-NUS)
Matthew Walker (Yale-NUS)
Qu Hsueh Ming (NUS)
Simon B. Duffy (Yale-NUS)
Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of Law
Hui-Chieh Loy (NUS)
Moonyoung Song (NUS)
Neil Sinhababu (NUS)
Sandra Field (Yale-NUS)
Zach Barnett (NUS)
Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science
Daniel Waxman (NUS)
Isaac Wilhelm (NUS)
Lavinia Picollo (NUS)
Michael Pelczar (NUS)
Weng Hong Tang (NUS)
Chinese Philosophy
Indian Philosophy
Philosophy of Language
Aesthetics
In addition to these full-time philosophers, there is an active group of legal theorists at the NUS Faculty of Law. This group includes the following scholars:
Andrew Halpin
Mark McBride
J.E. Penner
Nicole Roughan
A.P. Simester
The logician, Professor C.T. Chong, well-known for his work on recursion theory, holds a joint appointment with the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Mathematics.