Chuanfei Chin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chuanfei Chin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chuanfei |
| FAMILY NAME | Chin |
| SIGNATURE | CHIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0158-9895 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Precarious Work and its Complicit Network
How does precarious work entail social vulnerabilities and moral complicities? Theorists of precarity pose two challenges for analysing labour conditions in Asia. Their first challenge is to distinguish the new kinds of social vulnerability which constitute precarious work. The second is to assign moral responsibility in the social network that produces vulnerability in depoliticised and morally detached ways. In this article, the social and norm…
Subliming and Subverting
What is special about the philosophy of history when the history is about science? I shall focus on an impasse between two perspectives – one seeking an ideal of rationality to guide scientific practices, and one stressing the contingency of the practices. They disagree on what this contingency means for scientific norms. Their impasse underlies some fractious relations within History and Philosophy of Science. Since the late 1960s, this interdis…
Models as interpreters (with a case study from pain science)
Margins and Monsters
How do micro cases lead us to surprising macro claims? Historians often say that the micro level casts light on the macro level. This metaphor of "casting light" suggests that the micro does not illuminate the macro straightforwardly; such light needs to be interpreted. In this essay, I propose and clarify six interpretive norms to guide micro-to-macro inferences.I focus on marginal groups and monsters. These are popular cases in social and cultu…
Precarious Work and its Complicit Network
How does precarious work entail social vulnerabilities and moral complicities? Theorists of precarity pose two challenges for analysing labour conditions in Asia. Their first challenge is to distinguish the new kinds of social vulnerability which constitute precarious work. The second is to assign moral responsibility in the social network that produces vulnerability in depoliticised and morally detached ways. In this article, the social and norm…
Models as interpreters (with a case study from pain science)
Margins and Monsters
How do micro cases lead us to surprising macro claims? Historians often say that the micro level casts light on the macro level. This metaphor of "casting light" suggests that the micro does not illuminate the macro straightforwardly; such light needs to be interpreted. In this essay, I propose and clarify six interpretive norms to guide micro-to-macro inferences.I focus on marginal groups and monsters. These are popular cases in social and cultu…
Subliming and Subverting
What is special about the philosophy of history when the history is about science? I shall focus on an impasse between two perspectives – one seeking an ideal of rationality to guide scientific practices, and one stressing the contingency of the practices. They disagree on what this contingency means for scientific norms. Their impasse underlies some fractious relations within History and Philosophy of Science. Since the late 1960s, this interdis…
Precarious Work and its Complicit Network
How does precarious work entail social vulnerabilities and moral complicities? Theorists of precarity pose two challenges for analysing labour conditions in Asia. Their first challenge is to distinguish the new kinds of social vulnerability which constitute precarious work. The second is to assign moral responsibility in the social network that produces vulnerability in depoliticised and morally detached ways. In this article, the social and norm…
Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History of Science and Medicine (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Abstraction (1 works)