Lab Introduction & Major Research Interests
Lok-Chi Chan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at National Taiwan University and is currently the CEO of the NTU Center for Traditional and Scientific Metaphysics (TSM). His research centers around the philosophical worldview of metaphysical naturalism and materialism, and thereby extends to the metaphysical nature of consciousness and matter. In the case of consciousness, the specific research aims to naturalize consciousness, namely, to identify and demystify consciousness as a natural object in the natural world which is susceptible to scientific investigations. His recent studies have been focusing on exploring the properties of phenomenal consciousness, scientific methods for studying phenomenal consciousness, and how we form concepts of our own conscious states.
Recent Representative Publication ( * corresponding author)
1. Chan, L.C.* & Latham, A.J. (2022), ‘The Possibility of Emergent Conscious Causal Powers’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 100, no. 1, pp. 195-201. (A&HCI)
2. Chan, L.C.* (2021), ‘Russellian Physicalism and its Dilemma’, Philosophical Studies, vol.178, pp. 2043–2062. (A&HCI)
3. Chan, L.C.* (2021), ‘On Characterizing Metaphysical Naturalism’, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind, vol. 1, pp. 232-260. [Manuscript available online: https://philarchive.org/rec/CHAD-20]
4. Chan, L.C.* (2020), ‘Can the Russellian Monist Escape the Epiphenomenalist’s Paradox?’, in Grasso, M. & Marmodoro, A. (eds.), Topoi, special issue on mental powers, vol. 39, pp. 1093–1102. (A&HCI)
5. Chan, L.C.* & Latham, A.J. (2019), ‘Four Meta-methods for the Study of Qualia’, Erkenntnis, vol. 84, no. 1, pp. 145-167. (A&HCI)
6. Latham, A.J.*, Ellis, C., Chan, L.C. & Braddon-Mitchell, D. (2017), ‘The Validation of Consciousness Meters: The Idiosyncratic and Intransitive Sequence of Conscious Levels’, Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 24, no. 3-4, pp. 103-111. (SSCI; A&HCI)