Academic Profile : Faculty

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Dr Melvin Chen
Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities
Journal Articles
(Not applicable to NIE
staff as info will be
pulled from PRDS)
§1: Applied AI Research
Chen, Melvin, Quek, Wei Liang, Tan, Alvin, & Chahed, Haroun. 2022. ‘A Proposal for a Technology-Assisted Approach to Wildlife Management in Singapore,’ Pacific Conservation Biology 29(1):1-16. Available at: https://www.publish.csiro.au/PC/PC21055

Xiang-Xuan Tan, Eunice, Quek, Wei Liang, Suryadi, Chahed, Haroun, Iyer, Shridhar Ganpathi, Jeyaraj, Prema Raj, Lee, Guan-Huei, Chan, Albert, Cheng, Stephanie, Hoe, Jan, Tan, Ek Khoon, Chew, Lock Yue, Fung, James, Chen, Melvin, Muthiah, Mark D, & Huang, Daniel Q. 2021. ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Liver Transplantation in
Hong Kong & Singapore: A Modelling Study,’ The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific 16: 100262. Available at: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(21)00171-1/fulltext

§2: Philosophy of AI
Chen, Melvin. 2023. ‘Framework for Taking Chances in Art: Aleatory Poetry, Intentionality, & the External Demarcation Problem,’ The Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism (forthcoming)

Chen, Melvin. 2023. ‘A Trilemma for the Singularitarian,’ Philosophy & Technology (open access, forthcoming)

Chen, Melvin. 2023. ‘The Philosophy of the Metaverse,’ Ethics & Information Technology (open access) - Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-023-09714-w

Chen, Melvin. 2023. ‘Trust, Understanding, & Machine Translation: The Task of Translation & the Responsibility of the Translator,’ AI & Society (open access) - Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-023-01681-6

Chen, Melvin. 2021. ‘Trust & Trust-Engineering in Artificial Intelligence Research: Theory & Praxis,’ Philosophy & Technology 34 (4):1429-1447. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-021-00465-4

Chen, Melvin. 2020. ‘A Tale of Two Deficits: Causality & Care in Medical AI,’ Philosophy & Technology 33(2): 245–267. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-019-00359-6

Chen, Melvin & Chew, Lock Yue. 2020. ‘Causal Reasoning & Meno’s Paradox,’ AI & Society (open access) - Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-020-01037-4#:~:text=What%20Polanyi's%20resolution%20of%20Meno's,fully%20known%20nor%20fully%20unknown

Chen, Melvin. 2020. 'Imagination Machines, Dartmouth-based Turing Tests, & A Potted History of Responses,' AI & Society, 35(1), 283-7. Available at: https://rdcu.be/13On

§3: Metaethics & Normative Ethics
Chen, Melvin. 2021. ‘The Is-ought Gap & the Substitution Criterion,’ South African Journal of Philosophy 40(3): 254–264. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02580136.2021.1949558?journalCode=rsph20

Chen, Melvin. 2015. ‘Apologia Pro Vita‐fabula Sua: Defending Narrativity & How We Make Sense of Our Lives,’ The Southern Journal of Philosophy 53(3): 251–268. Available at: https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/handle/10356/82153

Chen, Melvin. 2015. ‘Care, Narrativity, & the Nature of Disponibilité,’ Hypatia 30(4): 778–793. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24541981

§4: Aesthetics
Chen, Melvin. 2018. ‘To Chuck or Not to Chuck? Túngara Frogs & Evolutionary Responses to the Puzzle of Natural Beauty,’ Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics 10: 153–166. Available at: https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/10356/147878/3/To%20chuck%20or%20not%20to%20chuck%20proceedings%20of%20ESA.pdf

§5: Philosophy & Literature
Chen, Melvin. 2017. ‘Philosophy & Literature: Problems of a Philosophical Subdiscipline,’ Philosophy & Literature 41(2): 471–482. Available at: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/685450/summary

Chen, Melvin. 2015. ‘Is Ethics Nonsense?: The Imagination, & the Spirit against the Limit,’ Philosophy & Literature 39(1): 172–187. Available at: https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/10356/81946/1/Chen-2015-Is%20Ethics%20Nonsense_The%20Imagination%2C%20and%20the%20Spirit%20against%20the%20Limit.pdf
Creative Works
(Not applicable to NIE
staff as info will be
pulled from PRDS)
§1: Poetry
Chen, Melvin. 2023. ‘The Meaning of Life,’ BlazeVOX. Available at: http://www.blazevox.org/BX%20Covers/BXSpring23/Spring%2023%20-%20Melvin%20Chen.pdf

Chen, Melvin. 2023. ‘The Metaphor of the Rubik's Cube,’ BlazeVOX. Available at: http://www.blazevox.org/BX%20Covers/BXSpring23/Spring%2023%20-%20Melvin%20Chen.pdf

Chen, Melvin. 2017. ‘The Other - Inspired by the Proxima Centauri,’ LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction 9: 62

Chen, Melvin. 2015. ‘kami no michi,’ Eunoia Review 25 (poetry)

Chen, Melvin. 2013. ‘Ekphrases: Rothko, Picasso, Klimt,’ Tipton Poetry Journal 25: 56–57

§2: Art
Chen, Melvin. 2013. ‘Lord Leighton’s Orpheus & Eurydice,’ Heartbeat Literary Journal 4: 13
Opinions & Commentaries
(Not applicable to NIE
staff as info will be
pulled from PRDS)
Interviewee, The Hidden Layer: Healthcare Trailblazers (2021 Channel News Asia documentary):
https://tinyurl.com/be6cw9cy
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