Educational Qualifications

  • 2012
    PhD in Philosophy, Harvard University

  • 2006
    AM in Philosophy, Harvard University

  • 2003
    Post-Graduate Diploma in Primary Education (Merit), National Institute of Education

  • 2002
    MA in Philosophy, National University of Singapore

  • 2000
    BA in Philosophy (First Class Honours), National University of Singapore

Academic and Professional Experience

  • 2023 - Present
    External member, Stroke Support Station (S3) Institutional Review Board (via AIC-IRB)

  • 2022 - Present
    External member, Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) Institutional Review Board

  • 2020 - Present
    Member, SUSS Institutional Review Board (Human Biomedical Research)

  • 2020 - Present
    Chair, SUSS Institutional Review Board

  • 2019
    Member, SUSS Academic Audit Committee

  • 2016 - 2018
    Member, SUSS Internal Audit Committee

  • 2014 - 2019
    Member, SUSS Institutional Review Board

  • 2018 - 2021
    Senior Lecturer, SUSS

  • 2013 - 2017
    Lecturer, UniSIM/SUSS

  • 2012 - 2013
    Teacher, Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)

  • 2005 - 2008, 2010
    Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

  • 2007 - 2009
    Dudley Fellow, Harvard University

  • 2006 - 2007
    Assistant Dudley Fellow, Harvard University

  • 2000 - 2001
    Tutor, National University of Singapore

    • Selected Publications

    Journal Articles:

    • Kwek, A. “The “Risks of Routine Tests” and Analogical Reasoning in Assessments of Minimal Risk.” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine. Vol. 49, Issue 1, 2024.
    • Kwek, A., Peh, T., Tan, J. & Lee, J. X. “Distractions, Analytical Thinking and Falling for Fake News: A Survey of Psychological Factors.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. Vol. 10, Article Number 319, 2023.
    • Kwek, A. “Crowdsourced Research: Vulnerability, Autonomy and Exploitation.” Ethics & Human Research. Vol. 42, No. 1, 2020. 
    • Kwek, A. “The Indispensability of Labelled Groups to Vulnerability in Bioethics.” Bioethics. Vol. 1, Issue 9, 2017.
    • Kwek, A. “Dworkin and the Archimedean’s Lever.” Journal of Philosophical Research. Special Conference Supplement: Ethical Issues for the 21st Century. Charlottesville, VA: Philosophy Documentation Press, 2005.

    Book Chapter:

    • Kwek, A. “The Pedagogical Contributions of the Peripheral Spaces of Walks: Fort Canning and Tiong Bahru.” Cultural Heritage and Peripheral Spaces in Singapore. By Lim Tai Wei. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

    Conference Presentations:

    • Kwek, A. “Justifying a Disinformation Response Competency Test Instrument.” Winter 2020. eLearning Forum Asia 2020, Virtual Conference on Zoom, Hosted by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK.
    • Kwek, A. “The Vulnerability Heuristic.” Summer 2019. Oxford Global Health and Bioethics International Conference 2019, Keble College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
    • Kwek, A. “The Indispensability of Labels to a Theory of Bioethical Vulnerability.” Summer 2016. 13th World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics, Edinburgh International Conference Centre; and Institute of Medical Ethics Conference 2016, Institute of Medical Ethics, Edinburgh, UK.
    • Kwek, A. “Downward Causation as Role Causation.” Summer 2014. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
    • Kwek, A. “The Malfunction Problem and the Functional Individuation of Biological Traits.” Fall 2011. The Sixth Annual Mark L. Shapiro Graduate Philosophy Conference, Brown University. Commentator: Miquel Miralbés del Pino (Brown University). Spring 2012. The 86th Annual APA Pacific Division Meeting, Westin Seattle, Seattle, Washington, USA. Commentator: Shawn A. Miller (University of California at Davis).
    • Kwek, A. “The Predictive Character of Causal Explanations and Fodor’s Cross-Context Test.” Spring 2010. Southeast Philosophy Graduate Conference, University of Florida at Gainesville. Commentator: Andreas Falke (University of Florida at Gainesville). Spring 2010. Inter-Mountain West Student Philosophy Conference, University of Utah. Spring 2010. Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, Intersections with the Philosophy of Language, Brandeis University. Commentator: Richard Sandlin (Brandeis University).
    • Kwek, A. “Knowing Which and Being Located.” Spring 2007. The 31st Annual Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Commentator: Mylan Engel Jr. (Northern Illinois University).
    • Kwek, A. “Dworkin and the Archimedean’s Lever.” Fall 2001. Morality in the 21st Century, conference jointly sponsored by the American Philosophical Association and the University of Delaware, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA.


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