Academic Positions

• Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, (2020-present)

• Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2014–2020)

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2011-2012)

• Research Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2011)

Visiting positions

• Honorary Visiting Fellow, IDEA CETL, University of Leeds (2018)

• Visiting Scholar, Needham Research Institute, University of Cambridge (2015)

Education

PhD, Philosophy, University College London, UK (2021), 'Fixing Belief'

MPhil, Philosophy, University College London, UK (2016), 'Belief about Belief'

PhD, Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Australia (2010), 'Xin 心 in the Xunzi'

Visiting student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2007-2008)

Hon. BA, University of Toronto, Canada (2006)

Specialist: Philosophy; Minor: Political Science

Research Areas

• Xunzi

• Early Confucian ethics

• Self-knowledge

• Self-Consciousness

• Moral Psychology

• Reasoning

Email:

whcsung at ntu.edu.sg