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

Andrew Bailey (Yale-NUS)
Ben Blumson (NUS)
Neil Mehta (Yale-NUS)

Logic and Epistemology

History of Western Philosophy

Amber Carpenter (Yale-NUS)
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

Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science

Chinese Philosophy

Scott Cook (Yale-NUS)
Cathay Liu (Yale-NUS)
Hui-Chieh Loy (NUS)
Matthew Walker (Yale-NUS)

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.