University Awards

Young Researcher Award

History is a wonderful teacher, if we are willing to learn its lessons. The struggles and triumphs of our most profound thinkers are great guides to understanding the nature of the universe.  ” Professor Qu Hsueh Ming
Provost’s Chair Full Professor
Department of Philosophy
College of Humanities and Sciences
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Research Interests

  • Hume
  • Kant
  • Early modern philosophy

Research Achievements

  • His body of work offers novel and rigorous contributions to Hume scholarship. Achievements include:
    • Receiving acclaim for his monograph, Hume’s Epistemological Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2020), which offers a novel solution to a critical problem in Hume scholarship, the ‘Kemp Smith Problem’. It was nominated for the American Philosophical Association’s Book Prize in 2021 and received highly favourable reviews, including from the Journal of the History of Philosophy, the Journal of Scottish Philosophy, and Hume Studies
    • Publishing work on Hume’s metaphysical principles in leading journals, including Mind, the Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and the British Journal of the History of Philosophy
  • His work won the NUS Department of Philosophy a place, for the first time, in the 2021/2022 Philosophical Gourmet Report’s “Early Modern: 18th Century” category, tying with the likes of Stanford University’s and Princeton University’s philosophy departments

Publication Credits

  • A monograph published by Oxford University Press and 20 papers in leading journals
  • Three homeruns (a journal article that receives 10 times more citations than the average in a particular discipline)

International Standing

  • Director of NUS Press (since 2023)
  • Associate editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (since 2022)
  • Member of the Hume Society Executive Committee (since 2020)
  • Invited speaker/panelist at various leading conferences, including the American Philosophical Quarterly Eastern Division (2021) and the 45th International Hume Society Conference (2018)

Awards and Accolades

  • Provost’s Chair, NUS (2023)
  • Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, NUS (2022)
  • Dean’s Chair, NUS (2021)
  • NUS FASS Excellent Researcher Award (2021)
  • American Philosophical Association Book Prize nomination (2021)
  • NUS FASS Promising Young Researcher Award (2018) 

Education

  • PhD (New York University)
  • BPhil (Oxford University)
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