Dr. Pak-Hang Wong

• Philosophy of Technology
• Practical Ethics
• Political Philosophy

I earned my BA (1st Hons) and M.Phil at the University of Hong Kong, and later moved to the Netherlands and completed my PhD at the Department of Philosophy, University of Twente. After completing my PhD, I joined the University of Oxford as a Research Fellow on Climate Geoengineering Governance, and then as a Lecturer in Hang Seng Management College. In 2017, I joined the Research Group for Ethics in Information Technology at the Department of Informatics, Universität Hamburg as a PostDoc Research Associate (“Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter”).

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64-643 Information Ethics

64-644 Business., Technology and Ethics

Edited Books

Søraker, J.H., de Boer, J. van der Rijt, J.-W., Wong, P.-H. and Brey, P. (2015) Well-Being in Contemporary Society. Dordrecht: Springer.

Journal Articles/Book Chapters

Wong, P.-H. (2020) Cultural Differences as Excuses? Human Rights and Cultural Values in Global Ethics and Governance of AI. Philosophy & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-020-00413-8

Wong, P.-H. & Simon, J. (2020) Thinking about 'ethics' in the ethics of AI. In: IDEES, revistaidees.cat/en/thinking-about-ethics-in-the-ethics-of-ai/

Sugiyama, M., Asayama, S., Ishii, A., Kosugi, T., Moore, J.C., Lin, J., Lefale, P.F., Burns, W., Fujiwara, M., Ghosh, A., Horton, J., Kurosawa, A., Parker, A., Thompson, M., Wong, P.-H. & Xia, L. (2017) The Asia-Pacific's Role in the Emerging Solar Geoengineering Debate. Climatic Change 143 (1-2), 1-12

Wong, P.-H. (2016) Responsible Innovation for Decent Nonliberal Peoples: A Dilemma? Journal of Responsible Innovation 3 (2), 154-168.

Wong, P.-H. (2016) Consenting to Geoengineering. Philosophy & Technology 29 (2), 173-188.

Wong, P.-H. (2015) Confucian Environmental Ethics, Climate Engineering and the “Playing God” Argument. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 50 (1), 28-41.

Wong, P.-H. (2015) Introduction: Well-being in Contemporary Society (with Jelle de Boer, Jan-Willem van der Rijt, Johnny Hartz Søraker & Philip Brey) In Johnny Hartz Søraker, Jan-Willem van der Rijt, Jelle de Boer, Pak-Hang Wong & Philip Brey (eds.), Well-Being in Contemporary Society (pp. ix-xiv). Dordrecht: Springer.

Wong, P.-H. (2014) Maintenance Required: The Ethics of Geoengineering and Post-Implementation Scenarios. Ethics, Policy & Environment 17 (2), 186-191.

Wong, P.-H. (2013) The Public and Geoengineering Decision-Making: A View from Confucian Political Philosophy. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 17 (3), 350–367.

Wong, P.-H. (2013) Confucian Social Media: An Oxymoron. Dao 12 (3), 283-296.

Wong, P.-H. (2013) Technology, Recommendation and Design: On Being a ‘Paternalistic’ Philosopher. Science and Engineering Ethics 19 (1), 27-42.

Wong, P.-H. (2013) From Culture 2.0 to a Network State of Mind: A Selective History of Web 2.0’s Axiologies and a Lesson from It. tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-operation 11 (1), 191-206.

Wong, P.-H. (2012) Thinking through Consumption and Technology. In Philip Brey, Adam Briggle & Edward Spence (eds.), The Good Life in a Technological Age (pp. 157-167). New York: Routledge.

Wong, P.-H. (2012) A Walzerian Approach to ICTs and the Good Life. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, 10 (1), 19-35.

Wong, P.-H. (2012) Dao, Harmony and Personhood: Towards a Confucian Ethics of Technology. Philosophy & Technology, 25 (1), 67-86.

Wong, P.-H. and Lin, H.-Y (2011) Beyond the “Empirical Turn”: A Review of Twente's Ethics and Technology.Studies in Philosophy of Science and Technology 28 (5), 56-61. [In Chinese]

Wong, P.-H. (2011) Angeletics and Epistemology, Angeletics as Epistemology: A Comparison Between Capurro's Angeletics and Goldman's Social Epistemology. In Rafael Capurro and John Holgate (eds.), Messages and Messengers - Angeletics as an Approach to the Phenomenology of Communication / Von Boten und Botschaften - Die Angeletik als Weg zur Phänomenologie der Kommunikation (pp. 293-302). Paderborn: W. Fink Verlag

Wong, P.-H. (2010) The ‘Good Life’ in Intercultural Information Ethics: A New Agenda. International Review of Information Ethics, 13 (10/2010), 26-32.

Wong, P.-H. (2010) A Methodological Reflection on Converging Technologies and Their Relevance to Information Ethics. tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-operation, 8 (2), 130-132.

Lin, H.-Y. and Wong, P.-H. (2010) Empirical Turn for Philosophy of Technology of the Netherlands and Its Contemporary Revelation. Studies in Dialectics of Nature 2010 (7), 31-37. [In Chinese]

Wong, P.-H. (2010) Information Technology, the Good and Modernity. In Jordi Vallverdu (ed.), Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science: Concepts and Principles (pp. 223-237). US: IGI Global.

Wong, P.-H. (2009) What Should We Share? Understanding the Aim of Intercultural Information Ethics. SIGCAS Computers and Society, 39 (3), 50-58.

Member of Editorial Advisory Board, International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE). 2011-Present

Member-at-Large in the Executive Board of The Society for Philosophy and Technology, 2018- 2022.