我要吃瓜

Dr Ten-Herng Lai

Lecturer in Philosophy

Philosophy Stirling

Dr Ten-Herng Lai

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I am a political philosopher and an academic migrant. I'm interested in defiance, and my research focuses on illegal activism (such as civil and uncivil disobedience) and the honouring of wrongdoers (especially through commemorative practices). I'm also interested in democracy, hate speech, climate activism, political philosophy of language, and applied ethics. I work for the 我要吃瓜 as a Lecturer. I was the winner of the AAP Prize for Innovation in Inclusive Curricula 2020.

Before being taken in by the philosophers at Stirling, I've been floating on the philosophical job market for a while, including working a fixed-term teaching job at the University of Melbourne, being funded to undertake a short-term postdoc at the Australian National University by the Society for Applied Philosophy, and being unemployed. I got my PhD at the Australian National University in 2020, the year of the pandemic.

I am getting a lot better at responding to emails, as Apple Intelligence helps me go through the emails from the university leadership much more effectively.

My graduate teaching and supervision is through the St Andrews and Stirling Graduate programme in Philosophy (SASP) Topics that interest me include political resistance and commemorations, though I'm capable of offering a tiny bit on epistemic injustice, climate injustice, hate speech, and democracy.

Here's my PhilPeople page: which is much more accurate than the website here.

Research projects (1)

Immorality Set in Stone by Law
PI: Dr Ten-Herng Lai
Funded by: The British Academy

Outputs (5)

Newspaper / Magazine

Lai T (2024) A break with the past. Fabian Review. 10.12.2024, p. 9. https://fabians.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FABPN0376-Autumn-Review-WEB-100924-2.pdf