FASS Staff Profile

DR LEE WANG YEN
LECTURER
DEPARTMENT of PHILOSOPHY

Appointment:
LECTURER
Office:
AS3-05-01
Email:
wangyen.lee@nus.edu.sg
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Homepage:
https://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/phileew/
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Brief Introduction

Lee Wang Yen has a PhD in philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining NUS Department of Philosophy, he taught Logic and Critical Thinking, Philosophy of Science, Critical Thinking in Economics, and Philosophy and Methodology of Research at undergraduate and graduate levels at the Faculty of Science and Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya. He was a senior research fellow/research co-ordinator at the University of Oxford in 2013-14. 


Teaching Areas

Logic, Effective Reasoning, Introduction to Philosophy of Science


Current Research

An objective Bayesian account of probabilistic inference (monograph project).


Research Interests

Philosophy of science, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language.


Publications

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

    1. 2014. Should the No-Miracle Argument Add to Scientific Evidence? Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 42:999-1004.
    2. 2013. Akaike’s Theorem and Weak Predictivism in Science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 44:594-99.
    3. 2012. Hitchcock and Sober on Weak Predictivism. Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 40:553-62.
    4. 2009. Does Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism Work? Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 45:73-83. 
    5. 2009. A Pragmatic Case against Pragmatic Theological Realism. The Heythrop Journal: a Quarterly Review of Philosophy and Theology: 479-94.
    6. 2007. A Pragmatic Case against Pragmatic Scientific Realism. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 38 (Nov): 299-313.

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