Chin Liew Ten

Chin Liew Ten

Chin Liew Ten (C.L. Ten) is Professor of Philosophy and former Head of the Philosophy Department, National University of Singapore. Before taking up his appointments at the National University of Singapore, he was Professor of Philosophy (Personal Chair) and Acting Head of the School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Bioethics at Monash University, Australia.

He was born in Malaysia, and is a graduate of the former University of Malaya in Singapore and of the London School of Economics. In 1967 he was a Recognized Student in Oxford University under the supervision of H.L.A. Hart. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1989, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2000.

He has published widely, mainly on legal and political philosophy with an emphasis on issues of liberty and toleration, and is a noted scholar of John Stuart Mill.

He is on the editorial boards of several journals, including Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Utilitas, Journal of Political Philosophy, Bioethics and the Journal of Moral Philosophy.

Works

  • Mill on Liberty (Clarendon Press: Oxford 1980)
  • Crime, Guilt, and Punishment (Clarendon Press: Oxford 1987)
  • The Nineteenth Century (editor) (Routledge: London 1994)
  • Mill's Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy (Ashgate: Aldershot 1999)
  • Was Mill a Liberal? (Marshall Cavendish: Singapore 2004)
  • Theories of Rights (Ashgate: Aldershot 2006).

External links


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • John Stuart Mill — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = 19th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE image caption = John Stuart Mill name = John Stuart Mill birth = 20 May 1806 Pentonville, London, England death = 8 May 1873 Avignon, France school… …   Wikipedia

  • H. L. A. Hart — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophers era = 20th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE name = H.L.A. Hart birth = 1907 death = 1992 school tradition = Analytic main interests = jurisprudence, legal positivism, linguistic philosophy,… …   Wikipedia

  • On Liberty —   Author(s) John Stuart Mill Country United Kingdom …   Wikipedia

  • List of Monash University people — Monash University has a number of notable alumni and staff. Notable alumni Politics and government* Richard Alston, Former Australian Senator and Minister, current Australian High Commissioner in London * Daniel Andrews, Victorian Minister for… …   Wikipedia

  • Centre for Human Bioethics — The Centre for Human Bioethics is a research and teaching centre at Monash University, based in the Faculty of Arts. It focusses on the branch of ethics known as bioethics, a branch of ethics relating to biological science and medicine. It was… …   Wikipedia

  • On Liberty — On Liberty, 3. Aufl., zum Durchblättern anklicken On Liberty ist ein philosophisches Werk des englischen Philosophen John Stuart Mill, das erstmals 1859 veröffentlicht wurde. Für den damaligen viktorianischen Leser war es ein radikales Werk, das… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq — General Muhammad Zia ul Haq Urdu:محمد ضياءالحق General Zia ul Haq (on right), PA 6th President of Pakistan …   Wikipedia

  • Toleration — and tolerance are terms used in social, cultural and religious contexts to describe attitudes and practices that prohibit discrimination against those practices or group memberships that may be disapproved of by those in the majority. Conversely …   Wikipedia

  • Malayan Communist Party — Malaysia This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Malaysia …   Wikipedia

  • Chung Keng Quee — 鄭景貴 Traditional Chinese 鄭 …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”