Bio
Hong Yu Wong is Chair of Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science at the Philosophisches Seminar and Head of the Philosophy of Neuroscience (PONS) Research Group at the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), University of Tübingen. He is also a faculty member of the Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience - an International Max Planck Research School - and the Tübingen Cognitive Science Programme. His primary research interests concern the relations between perception and action, and the role of the body in structuring these relations. Currently he is exploring new approaches to studying the mind and the brain through the lens of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and evolution.
He has a monograph entitled Embodied Agency forthcoming with Oxford University Press and co-edited (with Frédérique de Vignemont, Andrea Serino, and Alessandro Farnè) an interdisciplinary anthology on peripersonal space entitled The World at Our Fingertips: a Multidisciplinary Exploration of Peripersonal Space (Oxford University Press, 2021). Alongside his philosophical research program, he does research in psychology and cognitive neuroscience on body cognition and motor cognition with colleagues in the two DFG Excellence Clusters in Tübingen, the CIN and the Machine Learning for Science cluster, Psychology, Computer Science, Sports Science, the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the Hertie Institute for Brain Research, and the Psychosomatic Clinic, the Psychiatric Clinic, and the Neuropsychology Section of the Universitätsklinikum Tübingen.
He received his PhD from UCL in 2009 for a dissertation on the relation between bodily awareness and bodily action supervised by Paul Snowdon, Michael Martin and Christopher Peacocke. His honours include a Templeton Foundation ACT Fellowship (2017-2020), the Annual Essay Prize for work on multimodality from the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp (2012), and the European Science Foundation's CNCC Essay Award for interdisciplinary work on consciousness (2008). As a graduate student, with the support of the then Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London, Tim Crane, he founded the London Aesthetics Forum together with Julia Peters in 2006. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Philosophical Explorations and an Associate Editor in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology for the journal Frontiers in Psychology. He was on the executive committee of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology from 2013-2021 and is an associate of the Centre for the Study of the Senses at the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.
Contact Details:
Prof. Hong Yu Wong
University of Tübingen
Bursagasse 1
72070 Tübingen
Germany
whywong [AT] gmail.com
hong-yu.wong [AT] cin.uni-tuebingen.de
