Amit Chaturvedi is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2018. His research focuses on classical South Asian and contemporary analytic philosophies of perception and consciousness. He also has research interests in cross-cultural ethics and moral psychology.

Boric works primarily in ethics, law, and policy of artificial intelligence and machine learning, especially in medical applications. I also work in Bayesian statistics and epistemology. Formerly, I was an Assistant Professor at INSEAD, both in France and Singapore, and a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). I received a JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, an MS in Statistics and a PhD in Philosophy, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
 

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Dr. Brian Wong (DPhil in Politics, Oxford) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong, specialising in political and moral philosophy. His research examines the nature of political responsibilities of citizens under non-democratic contexts, how state and individual actors respond to historical and structural injustices, and the intersection of philosophy and public policy. 

Chris currently teaches philosophy at the University of Hong Kong and Lingnan University. His research interests include philosophy of mind, epistemology, and ethics. He received his PhD from Lingnan University in 2018.

Daniel A. Bell  is Professor, Chair of Political Theory with the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He served as Dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University (Qingdao) from 2017 to 2022.   His books include The Dean of Shandong (2023),  Just Hierarchy (co-authored with Wang Pei, 2020), The China Model (2015), The Spirit of Cities (co-authored with Avner de-Shalit, 2012), China’s New Confucianism (2008), Beyond Liberal Democracy (2007), and East Meets West (2000), all published by Princeton University Press.   He is also the author of Communitarianism and Its Critics (Oxford University Press, 1993).  He is founding editor of the Princeton-China series (Princeton University Press) which translates and publishes original and influential academic works from China. His works have been translated in 23 languages. He has been interviewed in English, Chinese, and French. In 2018, he was awarded the Huilin Prize and was honored as a “Cultural Leader” by the World Economic Forum.

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Dr. Frank Hong is currently a Research Fellow at the Center for AI Safety, and a Postdoctoral Research with the AI&Humanity Lab at the University of Hong Kong. He was recently awarded his PhD from the University of Southern California (USC). He areas of specialization include the philosophy of language, logic, epistemology, and philosophy of AI.

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Professor Herman Cappelen is Director of the AI&Humanity Lab, Steering Committee Member of the Musketeers Institute for Data Science, and Chair Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD in Philosophy at the University of California Berkeley, and has held positions at Vassar College, the University of Oxford, the University of Oslo, and the University of St Andrews. He is author of 11 books, including Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2021), a frequent speaker and commentator at academic and public events in AI and Philosophy, and co-editor of the forthcoming collection Communicating with AI: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press). His research focuses on the philosophy of AI, conceptual engineering, the conceptual foundations of political discourse, and externalism in the philosophy of mind and language.

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Dr Yuen received his DPhil from the University of Oxford and is an assistant lecturer at the HKU Philosophy Department. His research interests include cultural relativism, social and global justice, and normative political economy. He is currently working on a project that seeks to defend the culturalist conception of justice by accentuating culture's scope of authority.

Dr. Lowe (Dr. phil., FU Berlin) is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at HKU. He specializes in the moral and political philosophy of Kant and Rawls. His research interests include international cooperation, the rise of Enlightenment and modernity, and modernization in East Asia. The conflict between premodernity and modernity is a central focus of his research.

Dr. Nado received her PhD from Rutgers University in 2011 and has worked at HKU since 2017. She specializes in epistemology and metaphilosophy. Her research deals specifically with questions regarding the use of intuition in philosophical methodology, and with the prospects for a revisionary approach to philosophical method known as 'conceptual engineering'.

Dr. Joe Lau (PhD, MIT) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He specialises in philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and critical thinking. He is author of An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity: Think More, Think Better (Wiley, 2011), and prominent contributor to issues in critical thinking education. In addition, he teaches in the Bachelor of Arts and Sciences Applied AI programme.

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Justin Tiwald (PhD, University of Chicago) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He works at the intersections of ethics, political philosophy, and traditional Chinese philosophy, with particular interests in Chinese and Western views of virtue, knowledge, and governance. Recent books include the The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy (Oxford, 2024) and Neo-Confucianism (with Stephen C. Angle, Polity, 2017). With Eric L. Hutton, he is a series editor of Oxford Chinese Thought.

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Dr. Nate Sharadin (PhD, UNC Chapel Hill) is currently a Philosophy Fellow at the Center for AI Safety, and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He is author of the book Epistemic Instrumentalism Explained (Routledge, 2022). His work centres on epistemology, value theory, meta-ethics, and the philosophy of AI. His current research on AI includes strategies for evaluative alignment, and capabilities identification.

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Wang Pei, Assistant professor at the School of Chinese, the University of Hong Kong. She completed her PhD thesis on phenomenology at department of philosophy of Tsinghua University and was a joint PhD. student in Université Paris 1. She was a post-doc fellow in Tsinghua Institute of Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Science. She is the co-author (with Daniel. A. Bell) of Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World, published by Princeton University Press in 2020. She has authored academic articles in English, Chinese, and French, mainly on phenomenology, ethics, and comparative philosophy. She is currently writing a book titled "The Power of Calligraphy: A Political History of Calligraphy in China."

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Dr. Rachel Katharine Sterken (PhD, St Andrews/Oslo) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong, and Principal Investigator of the project Meaning and Communication in the Information Age, which looks at how the nature of linguistic meaning and communication have changed because of advances in information technology, AI, and virtual reality. She studies the nature of online speech and manipulation, fake news, and conceptual engineering. She is co-editor of the forthcoming volume Communicating with AI: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press).

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Ryan Whalen’s research takes a data-driven approach to understanding the law and legal systems, with a particular focus on intellectual property law and innovation policy. This approach unites traditional doctrinal analyses with empirical techniques drawn from diverse fields including machine learning, natural language processing, network analysis, and data science.

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His work has appeared in a wide variety of journals including the University of Chicago Law Review, Research Policy, Science & Public Policy, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Yale Law Journal Forum, the Michigan State Law Review, and the Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society.

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Ryan Whalen holds a BA(hons) from Saint Mary’s University (Canada), an MA from National Chengchi University (Taiwan), a JD from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and a PhD from Northwestern University. While at Northwestern, Ryan served as the editor-in-chief of the Northwestern University Law Review. Prior to joining HKU Ryan served on the faculties at the National University of Singapore and Dalhousie University, and as a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago and the University of Glasgow.

Professor Scott Veitch (LLB PhD, Edinburgh) is Paul K C Chung Professor of Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He writes and teaches in the areas of legal, social and political theory. His area of research is jurisprudence broadly defined, and his work draws on historical, philosophical and sociological insights into law and legal institutions. He is the author of numerous books including his most recent book Obligations: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2021).

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Vince Feng (PhD, Harvard; MBA, Stanford) is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Hong Kong. He researches heterodox price models—primarily extending theories from sociology and behavioral finance—and their application to financial markets. Prior to teaching at HKU, he founded and managed a global macro hedge fund and the Asia operations of a global private equity fund. He continues to serve as a director on funds and listed companies, while managing his family office and assisting local charities.

Simon is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong.  His research focuses on AI safety, epistemology, and philosophy of language. Before moving to Hong Kong University, he worked at the Center for AI Safety, the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, and at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He received his BA from Yale, and his PhD from Rutgers, where he wrote a dissertation about dynamic semantics.

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