Associate Professor Adrian Kwek

Journal Articles:

• Kwek, A. “The “Risks of Routine Tests” and Analogical Reasoning in Assessments of Minimal Risk.” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Forthcoming in 2021.
• 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.
  

Commentaries:

• Kwek, A. “Implicit Bias and the Cultivation of Racial Harmony.” The Straits Times. 7th August 2020.
• Kwek, A. “Fanning the Flames: When Attempts to Call Out Misinformation Backfire.” The Straits Times. 19th April 2019.
• Kwek, A. “Sweet Spot in Informed Consent Lies in Idea of ‘Core Disclosures’.” The Straits Times. 15th March 2019.
• Kwek, A. “To Fight Fake News, Build Character and Critical Thinking Skills.” The Straits Times. 1st March 2018.
• Kwek, A. “Encourage Civic Friendship for Social Harmony.” The Sunday Times. 25th October 2015.
  

Others:

• Kwek, A. “Don't Judge It's Fallacious Until You Know How They're Reasoning.” Paradigm. Centre for University Core. 16th December 2020. https://paradigm.suss.edu.sg/dont-judge-its-fallacious-until-you-know-how-theyre-reasoning/.
• Kwek A. “The Need for Ethical Review in Non-Biomedical Human Subject Research.” Paradigm. Centre for University Core. 13th May 2019. https://paradigm.suss.edu.sg/the-need-for-ethical-review-in-nonbiomedical-human-subject-research/.
• Kwek, A. “What Theory of Knowledge is About.” Forum letter in The Straits Times. 21st January 2014.