{"id":9488,"date":"2021-09-27T14:50:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T14:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/philo\/?page_id=9488"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T01:48:59","slug":"graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/philo\/graduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>\n\t\t\tGraduate Students\t<\/h2>\n<h2>\n\t\t\t<strong>Ph.D.<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/philo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/03\/Jonathan.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan\" height=\"800\" width=\"600\" title=\"Jonathan\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>\n\t\t\tJonathan SIM\t<\/h4>\n\t<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:jyhsim@nus.edu.sg\">jyhsim@nus.edu.sg<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/nus.academia.edu\/AbelardPodgorski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<p><strong>Teaching Areas: <\/strong>Computational Reasoning, Chinese Philosophy<\/p>\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Read More<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-plus\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-minus\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>AY 2020-21 Modules<\/td>\n<td>Semester 1 &#8211; GET1050 Computational Reasoning<br \/>\nSemester 2 &#8211; GET1050 Computational Reasoning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brief Introduction<\/td>\n<td>Jonathan has a Master of Arts (Philosophy). He specialises in Classical Chinese philosophy and agent-based modelling. He has been researching ways of testing the effects of certain ethical concepts on a societal level through the use of computer simulations, modelling the behaviour and observing the effects of agents practicing certain ethical norms in the context of an artificial society. Jonathan has a special interest in crossing beyond disciplinary boundaries in the search for fascinating new insights to age-old problems. For his knowledge of philosophy across a spectrum of issues, he has been invited to discuss philosophical issues about technology and society in panel discussions for the Financial Times, Channel NewsAsia, and the Institute of Asian Consumer Insight. He recently edited a book on the Grand Challenges for Science in the 21st Century, (New Jersey: World Scientific, 2018) featuring insights from prominent Nobel laureates and academics from around the world. He is passionate about teaching and he enjoys sharing his love for philosophy. He has been teaching a variety of general education modules in NUS since 2016 to undergraduate students and adult learners from diverse backgrounds. At present, he is teaching computational methods in problem-solving and how to critically assess algorithms for biases and algorithmic injustices to undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/philo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/10\/Fred-Wu.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Wu\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1919\" title=\"Fred Wu\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>\n\t\t\tWU Mingqian (Freddie)\t<\/h4>\n\t<strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:freddiewu@u.nus.edu\">freddiewu@u.nus.edu<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<strong>Research Areas: <\/strong>Philosophy of mind<br \/>\n\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Read More<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-plus\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-minus\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brief Introduction<\/td>\n<td width=\"1790\">Freddie&#8217;s main research interest is philosophy of mind. He is also interested in cognitive science, metaphysics, and aesthetics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/philo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/10\/Shahid-Sumon.jpg\" alt=\"Shahid Sumon\" height=\"570\" width=\"473\" title=\"Shahid Sumon\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>\n\t\t\tMd Shahidul ISLAM\t<\/h4>\n\t<strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:msi@u.nus.edu\">msi@u.nus.edu<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<p><strong>Research Areas: <\/strong>Philosophy of Nagarjuna<\/p>\n\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Read More<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-plus\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-minus\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brief Introduction<\/td>\n<td width=\"1790\">Md Shahidul Islam received his bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees in philosophy at Jahangirnagar University in Bangladesh. He also competed an MSc in Logic at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He was teaching philosophy at Jahangirnagar University until he began his PhD at National University of Singapore in 2022. His current PhD research focuses on the use of paradoxes in Nagarjuna&#8217;s philosophy. His interests include Indian Philosophy, Nagarjuna, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, the power and limits of logic, philosophy of religious language, and the philosophy of philosophy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/philo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/10\/Zhi-Heng-Chia.jpg\" alt=\"Zhi Heng Chia\" height=\"846\" width=\"888\" title=\"Zhi Heng Chia\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>\n\t\t\tCHIA Zhi Heng\t<\/h4>\n\t<p><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:e0032405@u.nus.edu\">e0032405@u.nus.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Areas: <\/strong>Metaphysics and philosophy of mind<\/p>\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Read More<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-plus\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-minus\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brief Introduction<\/td>\n<td>I am currently a PhD student at NUS Philosophy. At a general level, I am interested in philosophical questions about the nature of reality, and the relationship between our epistemology, language and reality. This has led me to my research interests in the metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/philo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/02\/Aldrin.jpg\" alt=\"Aldrin\" height=\"579\" width=\"495\" title=\"Aldrin\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>\n\t\t\tAldrin RELADOR\t<\/h4>\n\t<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:aldrin.relador@u.nus.edu\">aldrin.relador@u.nus.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Areas: <\/strong>Ethics, Desire satisfaction, Action theory, Value theory, Counterfactuals<\/p>\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Read More<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-plus\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-minus\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brief Introduction<\/td>\n<td>I&#8217;m Aldrin, a PhD candidate. I&#8217;m broadly interested in issues related to desires, time, and the metaphysics of reasons. My present research projects include paradoxes for desire satisfaction theory, rational\/rationalising desires, and counterfactual idealisation for subjective reasons.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/philo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/02\/Yizhou.jpg\" alt=\"Yizhou\" height=\"644\" width=\"562\" title=\"Yizhou\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>\n\t\t\tYE Yizhou\t<\/h4>\n\t<p><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:yizhouye@u.nus.edu\">yizhouye@u.nus.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Areas: <\/strong>Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Cognitive Science<\/p>\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Read More<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-plus\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-minus\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brief Introduction<\/td>\n<td>I am currently a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. I hold a bachelor&#8217;s degree in Philosophy from Zhejiang Gongshang University and a master&#8217;s degree in Philosophy from KU Leuven.\nMy research focuses on the nature and realization of intentionality and agency. I am especially interested in how these capacities are realized in natural agents, including human and non-human animals, as well as in artificial systems such as AI.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/philo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/02\/Yuang.jpg\" alt=\"Yuang\" height=\"733\" width=\"553\" title=\"Yuang\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>\n\t\t\tCHEN Yuang\t<\/h4>\n\t<p><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:chenyuang@u.nus.edu\">chenyuang@u.nus.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Areas: <\/strong>Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science<\/p>\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Read More<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-plus\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-minus\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brief Introduction<\/td>\n<td>I work mainly in metaphysics and philosophy of science. I am particularly interested in laws of nature, explanation, fundamentality, and the relationship between theory and reality, broadly construed.\nBefore starting my PhD, I received an MPhil in Philosophy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a BA in Philosophy from Renmin University of China.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/philo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/10\/Cheong-Hong-Wai.jpg\" alt=\"Cheong Hong Wai\" height=\"1600\" width=\"1200\" title=\"Cheong Hong Wai\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>\n\t\t\tCHEONG Hong Wai\t<\/h4>\n\t<strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:e0309957@u.nus.edu\">e0309957@u.nus.edu<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<strong>Research Areas: <\/strong>Ethics, Metaphysics, Logic, Philosophy of Science<br \/>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Read More<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-plus\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-minus\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brief Introduction<\/td>\n<td>I finished my BA (Hons) in PPE here at NUS at 2022. I&#8217;m currently focused on issues in Population Ethics, Naturalness in Metaphysics and the Normativity of Logic.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>\n\t\t\t<strong>M.A.<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/philo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/02\/Peng-Han.jpg\" alt=\"Peng Han\" height=\"608\" width=\"523\" title=\"Peng Han\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>\n\t\t\tHO Peng Han\t<\/h4>\n\t<strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:hopenghan@u.nus.edu\">hopenghan@u.nus.edu<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<strong>Research Areas: <\/strong>Philosophy of Art, Education, Epistemology<br \/>\n\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Read More<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-plus\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-minus\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brief Introduction<\/td>\n<td>I am a M.A. student at the department of philosophy.\n<p>My B.A. thesis proposed and defended a new version of Hypothetical Intentionalism about literary work meaning. My M.A. thesis is currently on the epistemic aims of education with related issues about testimony in education. I am also currently working on the entanglement between logic and mathematics.<\/p>\nI have a specific fascination with meaning, reference, and truth in core analytic philosophy, and an interest in applying philosophy to solve societal problems by doing interdisciplinary work.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/philo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/10\/Jolly-Cheong.jpg\" alt=\"Jolly Cheong\" height=\"453\" width=\"340\" title=\"Jolly Cheong\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>\n\t\t\tJolly CHEONG\t<\/h4>\n\t<strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:jollycheong@u.nus.edu\">jollycheong@u.nus.edu<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<p><strong>Research Areas: <\/strong>The Nature and Value of Pleasure and Displeasure, Hedonic Naturalism, Normative Hedonism, Meta-ethics, Normative Ethics<\/p>\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Read More<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-plus\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-minus\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brief Introduction<\/td>\n<td>Experiencing pleasure got me interested in its nature and value, and that got me interested in everything else.\n<p>Primarily, I&#8217;m working on the nature and value of pleasure. Apropos of pleasure&#8217;s nature, I&#8217;m working a phenomenological theory of pleasure, according to which pleasure just is felt goodness. Apropos of pleasure&#8217;s value, I&#8217;m working on arguing for hedonic naturalism, according to which pleasure just is moral value.<\/p>\n<p>Secondarily, I&#8217;m interested in topics such as emotions, introspection, vividness, and death.<\/p>\nI&#8217;m currently working on two articles: one in which I defend phenomenological theories<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/philo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/10\/Intanon-Troph-Som.jpg\" alt=\"Intanon Troph Som\" height=\"1504\" width=\"1134\" title=\"Intanon Troph Som\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>\n\t\t\tTroph Intanon SOMBOONTANASARN\t<\/h4>\n\t<p><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:e1374364@u.nus.edu\">e1374364@u.nus.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<strong>Research Areas: <\/strong>Post-Kantian Philosophy, Culture Studies, Literary Studies<br \/>\n\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Read More<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-plus\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-minus\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brief Introduction<\/td>\n<td>My MA thesis is about the notion of givenness and noumena, especially with respect to Martin Heidegger and speculative materialism. I also draw heavily from German idealism (Schelling, Hegel), post-structuralism (Foucault, Lacan, Derrida), and cross-cultural philosophy (with Madhyamaka Buddhism). Otherwise, I am also interested in the intersection between phenomenology and social theory, cosmopolitanism, poetry (especially Georg Trakl), and the works of Georges Bataille.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/philo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/02\/Sirui.jpg\" alt=\"Sirui\" height=\"659\" width=\"431\" title=\"Sirui\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>\n\t\t\tFAN Sirui\t<\/h4>\n\t<p><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:siruifan@u.nus.edu\">siruifan@u.nus.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<strong>Research Areas: <\/strong>Epistemology, Moral Philosophy<br \/>\n\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Read More<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-plus\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-minus\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brief Introduction<\/td>\n<td>My research is in epistemology, with a focus on moral epistemology and testimony. My earlier work examined moral deference and moral testimony, while my current research explores the nature of testimony and its role in transmitting justification, knowledge and understanding. I am also interested in contemporary epistemic challenges, particularly the effects of large language models on our epistemic practices.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4>\n\t\t\tHia Ren\t<\/h4>\n\t<p><strong>Email:<\/strong><\/p>\n<strong>Research Areas:<\/strong><br \/>\n\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Read More<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-plus\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-minus\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brief Introduction<\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4>\n\t\t\tNicholas LOO\t<\/h4>\n\t<p><strong>Email:<\/strong><\/p>\n<strong>Research Areas:<\/strong><br \/>\n\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Read More<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-plus\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-minus\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brief Introduction<\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/philo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/Samuel-bio-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Samuel bio photo\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" title=\"Samuel bio photo\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h4>\n\t\t\tSamuel FOO\t<\/h4>\n\t<p><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:e0389168@u.nus.edu\">e0389168@u.nus.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<strong>Research Areas: <\/strong>Ethics, Political Philosophy, Epistemology.<br \/>\n\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Read More<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-plus\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-minus\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brief Introduction<\/td>\n<td>I am an MA student at the department, interested in normative questions in ethics, political philosophy and epistemology. I hold a BA (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. Currently, I am most interested in procreation and population ethics, the ethics of belief and knowledge, and trust in ethics and epistemology. I also have substantial interests in the philosophy of nationality and gender.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate Students Ph.D. Jonathan SIM Email: jyhsim@nus.edu.sg Teaching Areas: Computational Reasoning, Chinese Philosophy Read MoreCollapse AY 2020-21 Modules Semester 1 &#8211; GET1050 Computational Reasoning Semester 2 &#8211; GET1050 Computational Reasoning Brief Introduction Jonathan has a Master of Arts (Philosophy). He specialises in Classical Chinese philosophy and agent-based modelling. 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