
Current Projects
​Major Research Project:
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Mourning Neoliberalism: Emancipation in the Age of Psychopolitics (PhD project at the SPAH, the University of Essex)
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supervised by Prof. Fabian Freyenhagen
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​PhD Funded by the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme​​
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Publications and Work
Peer-Reviewed Philosophy Journal Articles:​
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Yeung, Felix S H, and Song Fei. 2025. "Towards a Skillful-Expert Model for Virtuous Machines,” American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 153-171.
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Yeung, Felix S. H. 2024. "Psychoanalyzing Democracies: Antagonisms, Paranoia, and the Productivity of Depression,” Constellations, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 35-50. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12648.
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Song, Fei, and Felix S H Yeung. 2024. "A Pluralist Hybrid Model for Moral Ais,” AI & Society, vol. 39, pp. 891-900. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01601-0.
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Peer-reviewed Scientific Journal Articles
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Song, F., Shou, Y., Olney, J., Yeung, F. S. H. Moral judgments under uncertainty: risk, ambiguity and commission bias. Curr Psychol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-05050-w
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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, ed. Levi Checketts and Benedict S. B. Chan: Springer), pp. 161-177.
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Seminars/Conference Presentations
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Felix S H Yeung (2024) “Adorno meets Zhuangzi in VR: Is Dao obsolete under Technocapitalism?”
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International Society of East Asian Philosophy 2024 Conference, Fukuoka University, Japan, 14 – 15 December 2024.
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Felix S H Yeung (2024) “Enlightenment’s Good Mourning: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of the Dialectic of Enlightenment.”
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4th International Colloquium in Contemporary Philosophy and Culture, Society for Philosophy as Global Conversation, University of Nagano, Japan, 31 May – 2 June 2024.
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“A Skilful-Coping Model for Moral AIs.” (with Fei Song)
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Ethical and Social Implications of Artificial Intelligence: East-Asia and Beyond, Centre for Applied Ethics, Hong Kong Baptist University, 30 Mar – 01 Apr 2023.
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"Can AI be Moral? Two different approaches to Ethical AIs" (with Fei Song)
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2023 research semainar (invited) @ Graduate School of Humanities and Faculty of Letters, Kobe University. ​Website
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A Hybrid Model for Moral AIs (with Fei Song)
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2021 CEPE/IACAP Joint Conference ​
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Democracy and Depression: Democratic maturity as "working-through"
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2020 Seminar @ HKU Dept of Philosophy
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On The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory
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2018 Seminar @ HKU Dept of Philosophy
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Beyond Bad Conscience: Critical Reflections on Judith Butler's Ethics of the social bond
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2018 Villanova University Philosophy Conference - Resistance: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theories
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Postgraduate Thesis
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"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
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Recognition or Power? : a critical assessment of Axel Honneth's recognition-theoretic renewal of critical theory (2015-6 under Prof. Jiwei Ci) Abstract
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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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Working Manuscripts
M​​ anuscripts/Talks in progress:​
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"The Unconscious in Age of Neuralized Digital Capitalism: On Psychic Resistance in the Age of Deep Learning"
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Resisting Algorithmic Power: A Foucaultian Perspective
Completed Manuscripts:​​
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Myths of Neoliberalism, or, How to Study Neoliberal Subjects in the Age of Precarity
Awards and Scholarships
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2022-2026 Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence (HKSAR Government) - Title of "Hong Kong Scholar"
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2016-2018 Postgraduate Scholarship (Graduate School, HKU)
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2016 Peter Thrower Prize in Biological Sciences (Faculty of Science, HKU)
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Awarded to the best student in Ecology and Biodiversity completing BSc in 2016.
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2015 External Examiner’s Book Prize in Philosophy (Faculty of Arts, HKU)
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One of the two undergraduate prizes in Philosophy of year 2015, awarded based on academic merit
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2012-2015 Dean’s Honours List (Three-time awardee) (Faculty of Science, HKU)
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2012 HKU Foundation Scholarship for Outstanding Students (HKU)
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2012 Science Entrance Scholarship (Faculty of Science, HKU)
Teaching Experience
​2025 Spring:
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CCHU 9021: Critical Thinking in the Contemporary World (Tutor) with Dr. Arthur Chin (HKU)
2024 Fall
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PHIL 1068: Elementary Logic (Tutor) with Dr. Jennifer Nado (HKU)
2024 Spring
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Diploma for Creative Arts, Philosophy Programme: Digital Present (Lecturer) (HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity)
2023 Fall
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Diploma for Creative Arts, Philosophy Programme: Our Manic Age - An Introduction to Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Theory (Lecturer) (HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity)
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PHIL 1068: Elementary Logic (Tutor) with Dr. Lam Ka Ho
2023 Spring
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PHIL 1068: Elementary Logic (Tutor) with Dr. Jennifer Nado (HKU)
2022 Spring
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Diploma for Creative Arts, Philosophy Programme: The Weight of the World - The social philosophy of emotions (Lecturer) (HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity)
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PHIL 1034: Ethics and Politics, with Dr. Amit Chaturvedi (HKU)
2021 Fall
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PHIL 1068: Elementary Logic (Tutor), with Dr. Jennifer Nado (HKU)
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Diploma for Creative Arts, Philosophy Programme: On Subjectivity (Lecturer) (HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity)
2021 Spring (HKU)
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PHIL 1068: Elementary logic (Tutor), with Dr. Jennifer Nado
2020 Fall (HKU)
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APAI 1001 AI: foundation, philosophy and ethics (Peer Tutor), with Dr. Joe Lau
2020 Spring(HKU)
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CCHU 9005 Food and Values (Tutor), with Dr. Joe Lau
2019 Fall(HKU)
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PHIL 1068 Elementary Logic (Tutor), with Dr. Jennifer Nado
2019 Spring (HKU)
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PHIL 1068 Elementary Logic (Tutor), with Dr. Jennifer Nado
2018 Fall (HKU)
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PHIL 1012 Mind and Knowledge (Tutor), with Prof. Max Deutsch
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PHIL 2360 Political Philosophy (Tutor), with Prof. Jiwei Ci
2017 Spring (HKU)
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PHIL 2077 Habermas (Tutor, Co-instructor), with Prof. Jiwei Ci and Johannes Hoerning
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PHIL 2362 Liberal Democracy (Co-instructor), with Prof. Jiwei Ci and Johannes Hoerning