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Current Projects

​Major Research Project:

  • Mourning Neoliberalism: Emancipation in the Age of Psychopolitics (PhD project at the SPAH, the University of Essex) supervised by Prof. Fabian Freyenhagen

    • PhD Funded by the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme​​

Publications and Work

Peer-Reviewed Philosophy Journal Articles:​

  • Felix S. H. Yeung (2022). “Psychoanalyzing Democracies: Antagonisms, Paranoia and the Productivity of Depression.” Constellations. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12648

  • Fei Song, and Felix S. H. Yeung (2022). “A Pluralist Hybrid Model for Moral A.I.s” AI & Society (In press).

Peer-reviewed Scientific Journal Articles

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Seminars/Conference Presentations

  1. “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.

  2. "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

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

    • 2021 CEPE/IACAP Joint Conference ​

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

    • 2020 Seminar @ HKU Dept of Philosophy

  5. On The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory 

    • Seminar @ HKU Dept of Philosophy

  6. 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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Postgraduate Thesis

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

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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) Abstract

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

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Articles pending publication/ Working Manuscripts

Manuscripts/Talks in progress:​​​

  • Wrong Life Cannot be Mourned Rightly: Theodor Adorno and the Impossibility of Psychic Integration

  • Enlightenment's "Good Mourning": A Kleinian Reading of the Dialectic of Enlightenment.

Completed Manuscripts:

  • "A Skilful-expert model for Machine Ethics" (In collaboration with Dr. Song Fei) - Manuscript accepted, pending publication

  • "The Unconscious in Age of Neuralized Digital Capitalism: On Psychic Resistance in the Age of Deep Learning"

  • "Resetting Machine Ethics: Rationalism, Hypocrisy, Disagreement, and Skills" (In collaboration with Dr. Song Fei)

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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)

Teaching Experience

2023 Fall

  • Diploma for Creative Arts, Philosophy Programme: Our Manic Age - An Introduction to Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Theory (Lecturer) (HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity)

  • PHIL 1068: Elementary Logic (Tutor) with Dr. Lam Ka Ho

2023 Spring

  • PHIL 1068: Elementary Logic (Tutor) with Dr. Jennifer Nado (HKU)

2022 Spring

  • Diploma for Creative Arts, Philosophy Programme: The Weight of the World - The social philosophy of emotions (Lecturer) (HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity)

  • PHIL 1034: Ethics and Politics, with Dr. Amit Chaturvedi (HKU)

2021 Fall

  • PHIL 1068: Elementary Logic (Tutor), with Dr. Jennifer Nado (HKU)

  • Diploma for Creative Arts, Philosophy Programme: On Subjectivity (Lecturer) (HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity)

2021 Spring (HKU)

  • PHIL 1068: Elementary logic (Tutor), with Dr. Jennifer Nado

2020 Fall (HKU)

  • APAI 1001 AI: foundation, philosophy and ethics (Peer Tutor), with Dr. Joe Lau

2020 Spring(HKU)

  • CCHU 9005 Food and Values (Tutor), with Dr. Joe Lau

2019 Fall(HKU)

  • PHIL 1068 Elementary Logic (Tutor), with Dr. Jennifer Nado

2019 Spring (HKU)

  • PHIL 1068 Elementary Logic (Tutor), with Dr. Jennifer Nado

2018 Fall (HKU)

  • PHIL 1012 Mind and Knowledge (Tutor), with Prof. Max Deutsch

  • PHIL 2360 Political Philosophy (Tutor), with Prof. Jiwei Ci

2017 Spring (HKU)

  • PHIL 2077 Habermas (Tutor, Co-instructor), with Prof. Jiwei Ci and Johannes Hoerning

  • PHIL 2362 Liberal Democracy (Co-instructor), with Prof. Jiwei Ci and Johannes Hoerning

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