Frederick Choo Wen YeongI am a 3rd year PhD student in philosophy at Rutgers University, supervised by Frances Kamm and Michael Otsuka. Previously, I did my MA and BA in philosophy at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (where I'm from). My primary areas of interests are in: Normative Ethics, Metaethics, Philosophy of Religion. My secondary areas of interests are in: Chinese Philosophy, Technology Ethics, Bioethics, Epistemology, and Experimental Philosophy. My main research project is on aspects of the good life such as: well-being, meaningfulness, death, achievement, perfectionist goods, and morality. I also have various side projects on theistic ethics, non-consequentialist principles, technology ethics, and ethics in Chinese philosophy. I am also beginnning to explore experimental philosophy and population-level bioethics. When not doing philosophy, you will find me making music or playing counterstrike (a first-person shooter game). |
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
- “The Subjective Ought and the Accessibility of Moral Truths”
American Philosophical Quarterly (Forthcoming) - “A Non-Vacuist Response to the Counterpossible Terrible Commands Objection”
Erkenntnis (Forthcoming) - “Conversational Implicatures Cannot Save Divine Command Theory from the Counterpossible Terrible Commands Objection”
Religious Studies 59(4): 852-858 (2023) - “Addressing Two Recent Challenges to the Factive Account of Knowledge” (with Esther Goh)
Synthese 200(435): 1-14 (2022) - “Can a Worship-worthy Agent Command Worship?” (Finalist for Religious Studies Postgraduate Essay Prize)
Religious Studies 8(1): 79-95 (2022) - “The Epistemic Significance of Religious Disagreements: Cases of Unconfirmed Superiority Disagreements”
Topoi 40(5): 1139-1147 (2021) - “The Prior Obligations Objection to Theological Stateism”
Faith and Philosophy 36(3): 372-384 (2019) - “Telling Others to Do What You Believe Is Morally Wrong: The Case of Confucius and Zai Wo”
Asian Philosophy 29(2): 106-115 (2019) - “The Free Will Defense Revisited: The Instrumental Value of Significant Free Will” (with Esther Goh)
International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science 4: 32-45 (2019)
PRESENTATIONS
Conferences
- “Desire-Satisfactionism and the No-Future-Time-of-Desire View”
Symposium at APA Central Division, New Orleans (2024).
16th Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado-Boulder (RoME XVI) (2023). (Young Ethicist Prize)
6th Beijing Analytic Philosophy Conference, Remin University of China (2019). (Best Graduate Student Paper) - “Aesthetic Reasons: Requiring or Merely Enticing?”
St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality (SLACRR), UMSL, WUSTL, and SLU (2024). - “Kavka’s Toxin Puzzle, Abraham’s Sacrifice, and Conditional Intentions”
Istanbul Analytic Theology Workshop, Ibn Haldun University (2024). - “The Loop Trolley Case: Is it Permissible to Divert?”
Galway International Graduate Conference, University of Galway (2023). - “Is Theism Compatible with Moral Error Theory? An Experimental Investigation”
Natural Theology Conference, Saint Louis University (2023). - “Psychopaths: The Problem of God’s Inaccessible Commands”
Virginia Philosophy of Religion Workshop, Virginia Commonwealth University (2023). (Invited) - “Wealth, Poverty, and Living a Moral Life: Confucius and Mencius”
6th Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy, Rutgers University (2023). - "Is the Subjective Ought Sensitive to Our Epistemic Position Regarding Moral Facts?"
15th Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME XV), University of Colorado-Boulder (2022). - “Moral Concerns about Robots and AI Leading to a Utopic Post-work World”
Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Sydney (2022). - "Omnipotence, Omnibenevolence, and the Power to Ground Moral Obligations"
Virginia Philosophy of Religion Workshop, Virginia Commonwealth University (2022). (Invited) - “God’s Terrible Commands and Impossible Worlds”
The Philosophy of Religion Incubator, Princeton University (2021). - “In Defense of Uncertaintism”
4th SPEL Graduate Conference, Binghamton University (2020). - “De-motivating Rowland’s Buck-passing Account of Good-For”
Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Adelaide (2020). - “The Moral Obligations of Reasonable Non-Believers”
II Graduate Conference “Contemporary Issues Across Ethics and Epistemology,” University of Pavia (2019). - “On the Prior Obligations Objection to Theistic Ethical Theories”
University of Oklahoma Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Oklahoma (2019). - “The Epistemic Significance of Religious Disagreements”
The Haifa Philosophy of Religion Conference, University of Haifa (2018).
- “Is Automation Desirable? Worries about the Goods of Work and Autonomy in a Partially-Working World”
California State University, East Bay (2022).