I'm an ethicist and philosopher based at the medical school at the University of Hong Kong. I'm also a Research Fellow at HKU's Centre for Medical Ethics and Law. My research engages questions at the intersection of ethics, moral psychology, and the history of philosophy. My current work deals with ideas of sympathy and moral character found in Immanuel Kant. More generally, I’m interested in the ethical nature of the different roles and relationships we inhabit, including professional roles and personal relationships, and the moral value and hazards in things like empathy, anger, forgiveness, and atonement.

 

I absolutely enjoy teaching. Most of my teaching is devoted to training medical students in ethics. Recently I developed a new course for the university's Common Core curriculum on love, morality, and the meaning of human relationships, as seen through different scales and cross-cultural perspectives. I taught the Life Worth Living course for four years prior to that.