Faculty

 

Teaching Staff

TAN Sor Hoon

Associate Professor
Head of Department

Interests: Chinese Philosophy. Pragmatism. Moral and Political Philosophy from cross-cultural comparative perspectives.

Saranindranath TAGORE

Associate Professor
DEPUTY Head of Department
SEP Co-ordinator

Interests: Continental Philosophy. Indian Philosophy and Religions.

TEN Chin Liew

Professor

Interests: Political Philosophy. Philosophy of Law. Applied Ethics

Brook ZIPORYN

Professor

Interests: Chinese Philosophy. Buddhism.

John HOLBO

Associate Professor
2nd & 3rd year Co-ordinator

Interests: Wittgenstein. Nietzsche. Kierkegaard. Plato. Philosophy of Literature (Literary Criticism). Philosophy of Anthropology. History of Analytic Philosophy.

Cecilia LIM Teck Neo

Associate Professor

Interests: Descartes. Early Modern Philosophy. Environmental Ethics.

Anh Tuan NUYEN

Associate Professor
USP Co-ordinator

Interests: Philosophy of Social Issues - Abortion, Euthanasia, etc. Philosophy of Hume & Kant. Continental Philosophy - particularly Post-Structuralism, Post-Modernism, Hermeneutics & Critical Theory. Virtue Ethics. Philosophy of Religion. Comparative Philosophy.

Michael PELCZAR

Associate Professor
1st year Co-ordinator

Interests: Philosophy of Mind. Philosophy of Language. Metaphysics.

Ben Richard Kelsey BLUMSON

Assistant Professor

Interests: Philosophy of language. Philosophy of mind and aesthetics.

Christopher Anthony BROWN

Assistant Professor

Interests: Kant’s Ethics. Moral Philosophy. Applied Ethics. Social/Political Philosophy.

Axel Heinz GELFERT

Assistant Professor
Graduate Co-ordinator

Interests:Philosophy of Science and Technology. Social Epistemology. History of Philosophy.

LOY Hui Chieh

ASSISTANT Professor

Interests: Early Chinese Philosophy. Ancient Greek Philosophy. Ethics & Political Philosophy.

Neiladri SINHABABU

ASSISTANT Professor

Interests: Moral philosophy.

Kyle SWAN

Assistant Professor
Honours Coordinator

Interests: Theoretical and Applied Ethics. Political Philosophy.

TANG Weng Hong

Assistant Professor

Interests: Epistemology. Philosophy of Probability

CHIN Chuan Fei

Senior Tutor

Interests: Early Modern Philosophy. Wittgenstein. Philosophy of Mind.

Alexandra May SERRENTI

Teaching Assistant

Interests: Continental Philosophy. Moral Psychology and Agency.

Joint Appointments

LO Yuet Keung

Associate Professor
Department of Chinese Studies

Jacqueline CHIN Joon Lin

Assistant Professor
Center for Biomedical Ethics

CHONG Chi Tat

University Professor, Courtesy Joint Appointment
Head of Mathematics Department

Visiting Appointments

Chandran KUKATHAS

Professor
London School of Economics

Interests: History of Liberal Thought. Contemporary Liberal Theory. Multiculturalism.

Chad HANSEN

Chair Professor Emeritus
Hong Kong University

Aug 2010 - Jul 2011

Interests: Chinese Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Mind. Chinese Mohism. Taoism and Legalism. Ethics. Metaethics and Moral Psychology. Comparative Ethics and Philosophy. Philosophy of Law. Philosophy of Language. Social and Political Philosophy. Philosophy of Religion.

John GREENWOOD

City University of New York, USA

Jul 2008 - Jul 2009

Interests: History and Philosophy of Social and Psychological Science, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind

Loren LOMASKY

PROFESSOR
University of Virginia, USA

Jul 2009 - Dec 2009

Lisa RAPHALS

Professor
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE, USA

Jul 2010 - Sep 2012

Interests: Early Chinese Philosophy. Ancient Greek Philosophy. Comparative Philosophy. Religion. History of Science. Gender.

Roger AMES

PROFESSOR
University of Hawai'i of manoa, USA

Jan 2013 - Present

Interests: Early Chinese Philosophy. Comparative Philosophy. Pragmatism.