| Hektor Yan got
his BA degree from the University of Hong Kong
in 1996. Then he went to Wales, UK, to study
as a postgraduate at the University of Wales,
Lampeter (in Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr
Pont Steffan) and he received his PhD in
2000. After returning to Hong Kong in 2001, he
taught at the General Education Centre of the
Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He also worked
as a Research Fellow for the TDG project ‘Enhancing
Moral Reasoning and Moral Imagination in Ethics
Education’. |
| Recent publications |
- ‘A Paradox of Virtue: the Daodejing
on Virtue and Moral Philosophy’, Philosophy
East and West, vol. 59, 2009
(Forthcoming).
- ‘Is There a Geography of Thought
for East-West Differences? Why or
why not?’, Educational Philosophy
and Theory, Special issue on
Critical Thinking and Learning, August
2007, vol. 39, issue 4, pp. 383-403.
(With Chan Ho-mun)
- Meaning of Life, Julia
Tao and Hektor K. T. Yan (ed.), Singapore:
McGraw-Hill Education (Asia), 2006.
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| Research interests |
- Comparative ethics
- Ancient philosophy
- Philosophy of art
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| Teaching interests |
- Applied ethics
- Critical and creative thinking
- Meaning of life
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