Felix Yeung

 

Academic Publications

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Peer-Reviewed Philosophy/Theory Journal Articles:​

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• Felix S. H. Yeung. 2026. “Dying Myths of Neoliberalism: Reflections on Socialization in the Age of Precarity.” European Journal of Social Theory

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• Shane Ryan, and Felix S. H. Yeung. 2025. “Can We Biotechnologically Construct a Morally Better Human? – A Response to Jason T. Eberl and Matilda Ajibola” International Journal of Chinese & Comparative Philosophy of Medicine

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• Yeung, Felix S H, and Song Fei. 2025. "Towards a Skillful-Expert Model for Virtuous Machines,” American Philosophical Quarterly.

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• Yeung, Felix S. H. 2024. "Psychoanalyzing Democracies: Antagonisms, Paranoia, and the Productivity of Depression,” Constellations.

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• Song, Fei, and Felix S H Yeung. 2024. "A Pluralist Hybrid Model for Moral Ais,” AI & Society.

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Peer-reviewed Scientific Journal Articles

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• Song, F., Shou, Y., Olney, J., Yeung, F. S. H. 2023. Moral judgments under uncertainty: risk, ambiguity and commission bias. Curr Psychol.

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Book Chapters

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• Yeung, Felix S. H., and Fei Song. 2025. "Resetting Machine Ethics: Rationalism, Hypocrisy, Disagreement, and the Skillful-Expert Model,” in Social and Ethical Considerations of AI in East Asia and Beyond (Springer)

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Seminars and Conference Presentations​

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1.  “Mental Distress: Values and Ways of Living,”

   • 3rd CICSI Summer School, Centre for Investigation Contemporary Social Ills, University of Essex, United Kingdom, 19 September 2025.

2. "Xinzhai 心齋 as Free Association: A model for counter-fascist education?”

   • International Society of East Asian Philosophy 2025 Conference, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, 28 - 29 August 2025.

3. Felix S H Yeung (2024) “Adorno meets Zhuangzi in VR: Is Dao obsolete under Technocapitalism?”

   • International Society of East Asian Philosophy 2024 Conference, Fukuoka University, Japan, 14 – 15 December 2024. 

4. Felix S H Yeung (2024) “Enlightenment’s Good Mourning: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of the Dialectic of Enlightenment.”

   • 4th International Colloquium in Contemporary Philosophy and Culture, Society for Philosophy as Global Conversation, University of Nagano, Japan, 31 May – 2 June 2024.

5. “A Skilful-Coping Model for Moral AIs.” (with Fei Song)

   • Ethical and Social Implications of Artificial Intelligence: East-Asia and Beyond, Centre for Applied Ethics, Hong Kong Baptist University, 30 Mar – 01 Apr 2023.

6. "Can AI be Moral? Two different approaches to Ethical AIs" (with Fei Song)

   • 2023 research semainar (invited) @ Graduate School of Humanities and Faculty of Letters, Kobe University. ​Website

7. A Hybrid Model for Moral AIs (with Fei Song)

   • 2021 CEPE/IACAP Joint Conference ​

8. Democracy and Depression: Democratic maturity as "working-through"

   • 2020 Seminar @ HKU Dept of Philosophy

9. On The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory 

   • 2018 Seminar @ HKU Dept of Philosophy

10. Beyond Bad Conscience: Critical Reflections on Judith Butler's Ethics of the social bond

    • 2018 Villanova University Philosophy Conference - Resistance: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theories

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Dissertations​

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Postgraduate Theses

• "Mourning Neoliberalism: Emancipation in the Age of Precarity and Psychopolitics" (PhD Thesis, PHAIS, University of Essex)

• "On the Normative Foundation of Critical Theory" (Research MPhil Thesis, Dept. of Philosophy, The University of Hong Kong)​​

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Undergraduate Theses

• Recognition or Power? : a critical assessment of Axel Honneth's recognition-theoretic renewal of critical theory (2015-6 under Prof. Jiwei Ci) 

• Pollination Ecology and Floral Development of Machilus chekiangensis and Machilus velutina (Lauraceae) (2015-6 under Prof. R.M.K. Saunders)

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Working Manuscripts

M anuscripts/Talks in progress:​​​

• "Beyond Survivalism: Transcending late-Neoliberal Subjectivity"

• "Six Foucaultian Lessons for our Digital Economy"

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Awards and Scholarships

• 2022-2026     Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence (HKSAR Government) - Title of "Hong Kong Scholar"

• 2016-2018     Postgraduate Scholarship (Graduate School, HKU)

• 2016             Peter Thrower Prize in Biological Sciences (Faculty of Science, HKU)

  • Awarded to the best student in Ecology and Biodiversity completing BSc in 2016.

• 2015             External Examiner’s Book Prize in Philosophy    (Faculty of Arts, HKU)

  • One of the two undergraduate prizes in Philosophy of year 2015, awarded based on academic merit

• 2012-2015     Dean’s Honours List (Three-time awardee) (Faculty of Science, HKU)

• 2012             HKU Foundation Scholarship for Outstanding Students (HKU)

• 2012             Science Entrance Scholarship (Faculty of Science, HKU)​​