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

• 2024-27 RGC General Research Fund. Dr. A. Chaturvedi – All in the Mind: A Yogācāra Philosophy of Sentience
• 2024-25 RGC General Research Fund. Dr. Jennifer Nado – Rethinking our Methods: Analytic Philosophy without Conceptual Analysis
• 2024-25 RGC General Research Fund. Dr. N. P. Sharadin – Artificial Achievement and Machine Learning Capabilities
• 2023-24 RGC General Research Fund. Prof. Herman Cappelen – Can AI’s and Humans Understand Each Other?
• 2023-24 RGC General Research Fund. Dr. David McCarthy – Problems of Aggregation
• 2022-23 RGC General Research Fund. Dr. N. P. Sharadin – Explaining Epistemic Authority
• 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.