M.A. SungKyunkwan University; Email: a0082362-at-nus.edu.sg; Degree: PhD 
About Herself: So Young holds an MA from Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. Her study is mainly in early Confucian philosophy and she wrote my MA thesis on Confucius’ renxue in the Analects. Her current research interests in NUS are early Chinese philosophy, including Confucianism, Daoism, and thoughts of the other schools in the pre-Qin period. Also, she is interested in Comparative Philosophy and Ethics.
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Mary K. RILEY
M.A. Kent State University; Email: a0082734-at-nus.edu.sg; Degree: PhD
I hold an MA from Kent State University, where my thesis focused on resonating themes in the Confucian and George Herbert Mead’s concepts of self. I hope to continue research in comparative philosophy looking at the intertwining nature of community and individual in different philosophical contexts. Additionally, I am interested in the methodology of comparative philosophy and the problems associated with distinguishing between eastern and western thought. More broadly, my interests include early Confucian thought, American Pragmatism, Twentieth Century Continental philosophy, and Plato.
LIM Chong Ming
LIM Chong-Ming. M.A., B.A. Hons (NUS); Website: http://cmlim.droppages.com/; Degree: M.A. (2013).
About Himself: My primary interests centre on political and legal philosophy, and ethics. In my recently-submitted M.A. dissertation, I defended a Rawlsian account of distributive justice from some criticisms, pertaining to mental disabilities, by disability theorists. I argued that while many of the criticisms may be easily responded to, they nevertheless point to some open questions that the Rawlsian account has yet to fully answer. Currently, I am examining the limits of justification within the contractarian framework – especially the Rawlsian Overlapping Consensus – and exploring if there may be more reasons for compromising on justice, than for the sake of justice itself. I have also recently developed an interest in issues of international justice and legitimacy.
I have tutored at the department (Philosophy of Law, and Introduction to Philosophy), and taught philosophy at various local secondary schools.
Anantharaman Muralidharan
B.Sc. Hons, NUS; Email: a0030974-at-nus.edu.sg; Degree: MA
About Himself: My thesis is concerned with trying to find a more general justification for the Rawlsian framework. I am interested in broadly trying to derive and defend a free-standing theory of justice. At the same time I am interested in democracy and justifications for it. I am also interested in social epistemology and its implications for democracy.
Mitradutta MOHAPATRA
M.A. University of Mumbai; Email: a0095415-at-nus.edu.sg; Degree: PhD
Mitradutta Mohapatra holds an MA from University of Mumbai and he is exposed to both Indian and Western philosophical traditions. He is keen to look at various aspects of moral philosophy and more particularly, his interest lies in ‘applied ethics’. His current research interest at NUS is to have a closer look at the evolution of compliance governance in the contemporary business world and examine its compatibility with the ethical theories and the traditional tenets of human morality.
ZHANG Ming
M.A. Jilin University, China; Email: a0068441-at-nus.edu.sg; Degree: PhD
Zhang Ming is currently a PhD student in the department of philosophy, with a M.A. of philosophy from Jilin University, China. He has passed his QE and now is on the stage of thesis writing. His research interest is in contemporary political philosophy, especially the topic of distributive justice. The topic of his thesis is “Luck, Responsibility, and Distributive Justice” through which he attempts to defend a resourcist version of luck egalitarianism.
TSAI Miao Kun
M.A. National Taiwan University; Email: g0800380-at-nus.edu.sg; Degree: PhD
The topic of Miao Kun’s MA thesis was on qing 情 in the Chuang-tzu. Since joining NUS, she has broadened her academic interest to include Continental philosophy and contemporary hermeneutics. At this moment she is endeavoring to work out a proposal for her doctoral thesis, which aims to contribute to comparative ethics through investigating the place of ethics and agency in pre-Qin Daoist thought, particularly the thought of Lao-zi and Chuang-tzu. She has the faith that in while in academic life, we reflect, in everydayness, we embrace our own worldhood through wandering at ease.