Anosike Wilson Towards a Moralization of the “War On Terror”
Cansu Canca Currently, my research is focused on the ethical complications of organ transplantation and the problem of international organ trade. In addition to my focus on bioethics, I am working on a paper about the nature of phenomenal space. I received my B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy from Bogazici University (Istanbul). For my M.A. thesis, which is titled as “Voluntary Active Euthanasia: Justifications and Regulations”, I carried out my research in the Medical Ethics Department of Osaka University. Apart from philosophy, I enjoy watching/criticizing films (on which I also did my minor during my undergraduate years), traveling, taking excessive amount of travel pictures and trying out new types of food.
Gunardi Endro Conferred in year 2008 Currently working in Bakrie School of Management (Jakarta, Indonesia) as a teacher
Iluyomade Raphael Funwa Conferred in year 2008 Currently working in LogicMills (Singapore) as a teacher
Jonathan Charles Reynold Hill Conferred in year 2009 Currently working in Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (UK) as a research assistant
Kim Hak Ze Conferred in year 2009 Currently working in Se Myung University (Korea) as a part-time lecturer
Li Wanquan My general research areas are political philosophy, ethics and Chinese philosophy. My current research is about the comparative studies between communitarianism, care ethics and early Confucianism, which focuses on the issue of impartiality and partiality.
Md. Munir Hossain Talukder I am interested in Applied Ethics. The role of Applied Ethics in today’s society seems crucial. Different professionals as well as common people are facing new moral dilemmas and are seeking reasonable answers to these problems. I believe philosophers can significantly contribute by analyzing, clarifying and even reformulating the questions as they have been doing so since ancient times. However, some problems are not limited to the individual or the local, rather these are global problems. For example, environmental crisis is an extreme threat for all of us. My present research is about how we can analyze this problem from different perspectives. Is there any distinction or similarity between the Eastern and Western environmental philosophical approach? Can an alternative perspective of nature provide a plausible solution of environmental problems?
Ong Bendick I am currently working on emotions in early Confucianism, or to put it more specifically, the notion of joy, resentment, grief and fear as seen from the Analects, Mencius as well as recently-retrieved archaeological texts. And I am also a Christian in the ever-continuing process of growing in the faith, and am still trying to figure out a way through the problem of evil and the paradox of freewill and determinism.
Chinese and Christian- these are the two main thought that shapes me. Professionally, I hope to become a Confucian specialist and I believe the Mencian tradition has got Confucianism right, in fact, I think it pretty much summarises Chinese thought. I am a Mencian and believe that conscience and intuition is the key to solving anything Chinese. In a sense, this is very much the same with my walk with God. And perhaps the Chinese has got it correct when they say the heart and mind is never separated: The heart-mind is the key to many answers.
Sun Wei Conferred in year 2008 Currently working in Philosophy Institute, Beijing Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing, China) as a assistant professor
Tsai Miao-Kun The Problem of Self in Pre-Qin Confucian and Daoist Thought
Voo Teck Chuan My research areas are in the fields of Bioethics and Comparative Philosophy. Currently, I am exploring the idea of justice and how it relates to autonomy and the virtue of altruism; I may compare Rawlsian and Confucian perspectives on this to think about the ethics of instituting medical donation (human tissue and organs).
Wong Soo Lam I have a general interest in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, ethics, and buddhist philosophy. My previous research interest examines the concepts of material constitution, emergence, and their bearings on the problem of consciousness and the problem of mental causation. And my current research interest examines the concepts of causality, determinism, indeterminism and their implications for choice, action, and moral responsibility.
M.A. STUDENTS
Anuratha Selvaraj I'm in debt to Sartre for flaming my interest in Philosophy. As such, I've always enjoyed existential thought and the entire cultural movement that it represents - films by Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen, art by Jackson Pollock, literature by Dostoevsky and the Beat Generation. I'm also keen on post-structuralism, deconstruction and hyperreality. I am easily awed by Barthes, Baudrillard and Derrida and will, in a heartbeat, pander to any related stereotype (partly just for the fun of it). In the bid to express just how ardent my passion for continental philosophy is, I'd like to add that I have sat in a Parisian cafe, in a black turtleneck and man's beret, smoking a cigarette and aptly discussing authenticity - philosophy is heaps of fun!
Cheok Bee Ling Happiness, Law and Governance in Early China Aesthetics. Chinese Philosophy. Hermeneutics.
Chia Hui Ping My current research areas include Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, and Continental European Philosophy. I am particularly interested in Modernist and Postmodernist philosophy, gender and cultural studies, and politics and culture in Singapore. My thesis deals with the issue of homosexuality, and alleged 'Asian' arguments that justify state intervention and public policing against something that is ostensibly private, and self-regarding. I will attempt to examine the plausibility and credibility of such 'Asian' arguments that debase homosexuality by examining the common-forwarded Natural Law argument and other philosophical arguments that surround the debate on homosexuality. I will also draw on the works of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler to explore the modes in which the idea of 'homosexuality' maintains a certain symbolic order in society.
Chong Kevin I'm interested in early modern philosophy, particularly the transformation and mastery of nature and the relationship between Man and Technology. I'm also interested in comparing methodology and the Tao. My concerns are rather Continental, but I lean towards the Analytic when it comes to style.
Christopher Daban Daguimol My research interest is on Postmodernism and Poststructuralism. I am currently working on Michel Foucault's philosophy particularly on history/historiography. Foucault's conception of genealogy and archeology has deeply influenced postcolonial writers. In the same fashion my current research aims to employ these two methods of historicizing in finding out the answer to the question: What is a Filipino? Tracing the genealogy of the term Filipino, the project aims to investigate how the term was used to shape the consciousness of the Filipino in identifying himself. Taking the premise that Foucault's Philosophy (from genealogy, archeology, knowledge and power) leads up to the main project of being able to fashion and discover the self, the research aims to provide a temporary(?) answer to the question stated above
Edward Dass Amaladass Me, Other And Transcendent: Inter-Human Dialogue in Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore
Ho You De, Alwin Areas of Interest: Applied Ethics, Art and Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Eastern Philosophy, Greek Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of René Descartes, Philosophy of David Hume, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Religion, Political Philosophy, Women in Philosophy, etc.
Past Research Areas: Philosophy of Jacques Derrida (Deconstruction), Philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard, Ferdinand de Saussure’s Views on Language, Michel Foucault’s Views on Power.
Current Research Areas: Aesthetics and Food, Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Aesthetics and Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Food.
Huang Kai Sen Clement I am mainly interested in Philosophy of Mind, with plenty of interest in Metaethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, History of Philosophy and Logic. I am either a physicalist or an idealist with respect to the Mind-Body problem, though I have argued extensively for a form of dualistic overdeterminism in a previous work. With regards to Metaethics, I subscribe to Moral Error theory, which is better known as Moral Nihilism. This view, though bleak, appears to capture the true nature of the moral institution we find ourselves in and I believe we should learn to embrace the truth instead of searching for beautiful lies.
Ivan Loo Leung Wei The Reducibility of Qualitative Propoerties into Relational Properties
Joson, Aldo Dennis C. Phenomenology. Bioethics. Multiculturalism & Liberalism. Thomas Aquinas. Meister Eckhart. Martin Heidegger. Hans-Georg Gadamer. Paul Ricoeur.
Phan Shiaw Hwa, Jason Awaiting Conferrment. Currently working in Department of Philosophy, NUS (Singapore) as a part-time tutor
Rev. Raluwe Padmasiri Thero Desire: A Comparative Study of Levinasian Concept of Desire and Buddhist Concept of Desire
Shaun Oon Qing Wei Chinese-Peranakan male, mid-20s. Likes sunsets and long walks on the beach. Spends his time in deep meditation about personal identity, biography, self-representation and related fields. His interest was born on a starry Californian night when, camping out in a polo field, he made a promise to write four essays - each on a cardinal virtue of the Moulin Rouge (Freedom, Beauty, Truth and Love). That promise led to an undergraduate paper relating those virtues to personal identity; a paper whose loose ends he is still tying up. Thinks that persons are, in some important way, deeply fictive beings that tranfigure themselves into completion through a process of active narration. He is still trying to understand what he means by that. Believes he can do so by getting a grip on how we narrate (about) ourselves and others; and so plans to look at the philosophical relationship between Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s autobiography and his novels. Those works are all originally in Spanish. Shaun is learning German and French. He clearly didn't think that through. Likes dogs, good grammar, indie music and the movies of Woody Allen and Baz Luhrmann.
Stephanie Lee Currently, I am interested in the problem of the explanatory gap in philosophy of mind and what it tells us about our theories of consciousness. Many questions are raised in the face of this epistemological problem, and I would like to explore the possible responses that our theories of consciousness may give. Aside from the explanatory gap, my philosophical interests – both great and small – include phenomenology (particularly that of Emmanuel Levinas), metaphysics (identity, persistence), Self-Other relations, metaphilosophy, and theories of explanation.
Tan Li Ling The Problem of Futurity in Environmental Ethics
