The Department has research strengths in Chinese and comparative philosophy, philosophical methodology, philosophy of mind and language, ethics and politics, and the history of European philosophy.

Recent major research grants

  • 2020-21 RGC General Research Fund. Dr. J. F. Asay – Truth and Psychology
  • 2019-20 RGC Early Career Scheme. Dr. A. Chaturvedi – Classical Indian Philosophies of Perception and Consciousness: A Contemporary Reconstruction
  • 2018-19 RGC General Research Fund. Dr. J. E. Nado – Re-Engineering Epistemology
  • 2015-16 RGC General Research Fund. Dr. C. J. Fraser – Zhuangzi and Normative Ethics
  • 2014-15 RGC General Research Fund. Dr. G. A. Cook – The herbarium as scientific object: 1545-present
  • 2014-15 RGC General Research Fund. Dr. D. P. Robins – The Mohists and the Beginnings of Chinese Philosophy
  • 2014-15 RGC Early Career Scheme. Dr. J. E. Wolff – The nature of physical quantities
  • 2012-13 RGC General Research Fund. Dr. D. P. McCarthy – The Structure of Good
  • 2012-13 RGC General Research Fund. Dr. T. E. O’Leary – Philosophy and the History of Experience
  • 2011-12 RGC General Research Fund. Dr G. A. Cook – Œuvres complètes  de J.J. Rousseau — Botany
  • 2010-11 RGC General Research Fund. Dr. M. E. Deutsch – Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Method

Note: RGC grants are funded by the Hong Kong Government.