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Hello there,
Thank you for taking the time to visit this page. This page provides a brief introduction to my academic work and life. I am a senior lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the National University of Singapore. There are some questions that I care very much about. Most of the time I spend at work goes into teaching and researching thoughts on these questions. Currently, I'm focusing on three inquiries that intrigue me. |
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1 - How can we build a society that cares better and pays careful attention to pain experiences? I co-teach a course titled 'Pain Points' where we explore total pain (physical, spiritual, emotional and social). I am currently writing a manuscript (under contract, Cambridge University Press) on a comparative history of anger, which I take to be an important emotional pain experienced in different ways across societies. I've also written much on spiritual pain, examining how religious individuals cope with the experiences of suffering and the feeling of being forsaken or abandoned by the Divine. I'm currently working on a project to identify various kinds of pains and epistemic injustices that show up in the classroom.
2 - How can we dialogue and disagree better - more charitably, more thoughtfully, and more respectfully? I teach a course titled 'Everyday Ethics in Singapore' where we explore different topics of disagreement in Singapore (inequality, meritocracy, multiculturalism, migration) and where we equip students with tools to navigate their internal and external moral worlds. I've written papers on social epistemology, philosophical dialogue and the role of rhetoric in argument. I'm also working with educational institutions (pre-university and university) to experiment with 'Normative Case Studies' as a pedagogical tool to promote better dialogic education and reasoning.
3 - The History of Philosophical Ideas! I teach and write on philosophers who work in Early Modern Philosophy (David Hume) and Classical/Neo-Classical Chinese Philosophy (Mencius, Wang Yangming). I find that there's much in our history that our present can learn from, a kind of looking 'out' that can help us better look 'in'.
From the other pages on this site, you'll see some of my current (and previous) thoughts and engagement with these questions. These, of course, are works-in-progress. Feel free to contact me ([email protected] or [email protected]) if you'd like to chat more about any of these.
2 - How can we dialogue and disagree better - more charitably, more thoughtfully, and more respectfully? I teach a course titled 'Everyday Ethics in Singapore' where we explore different topics of disagreement in Singapore (inequality, meritocracy, multiculturalism, migration) and where we equip students with tools to navigate their internal and external moral worlds. I've written papers on social epistemology, philosophical dialogue and the role of rhetoric in argument. I'm also working with educational institutions (pre-university and university) to experiment with 'Normative Case Studies' as a pedagogical tool to promote better dialogic education and reasoning.
3 - The History of Philosophical Ideas! I teach and write on philosophers who work in Early Modern Philosophy (David Hume) and Classical/Neo-Classical Chinese Philosophy (Mencius, Wang Yangming). I find that there's much in our history that our present can learn from, a kind of looking 'out' that can help us better look 'in'.
From the other pages on this site, you'll see some of my current (and previous) thoughts and engagement with these questions. These, of course, are works-in-progress. Feel free to contact me ([email protected] or [email protected]) if you'd like to chat more about any of these.
