Hong Kong Catastrophic Risk Centre

Research output

Research output per year 2022 2023 2024 2025 2025

• 60 Scopus Citations
• 4 Scopus h-Index
• 30 Journal Article (refereed)
• 3 Book Chapter

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Acceptance-Based or Teaching-Based Rule Consequentialism?

  SAUCHELLI, A., Mar 2025, In: Ratio. 38, 1, p. 63-70 8 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

• Alienation, Engagement, and Welfare

  FANCIULLO, J., 1 Jan 2025, In: Philosophical Quarterly. 75, 1, p. 40-60 21 p., pqad115.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Basic Constraint 100%
  • Affective stances 50%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• All Play and No Work? AI and Existential Unemployment

  O'BRIEN, G. D., 12 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Ethics.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Artificial Intelligence 100%
  • Deskilling 20%
  • Large Language Model 20%
  • retreat 20%
  • Human Performance 20%

• Are current AI systems capable of well-being?

  FANCIULLO, J., Jun 2025, In: Asian Journal of Philosophy. 4, 1, 42.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Artificial Intelligence 100%

• Are There Demographic Objections to Democracy?

  GIBBONS, A. F., 19 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Episteme. 16 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Political Decision 100%

• Epistocracy and the Problem of Political Capture

  GIBBONS, A., Jan 2025, In: Public Affairs Quarterly. 39, 1, p. 19-42

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Political Power 100%

• Resetting Machine Ethics : Rationalism, Hypocrisy, Disagreement, and the Skillful-Expert Model

  YEUNG, F. S. H. & SONG, F., 18 Feb 2025, Social and Ethical Considerations of AI in East Asia and Beyond. CHECKETTS, L. & CHAN, B. S. N. (eds.). Springer, Cham, p. 161-177 17 p. (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology; vol. 47).

  Research output: Book Chapters | Papers in Conference Proceedings › Book Chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Ports and Harbors 100%
  • Ethical Theory 33%
  • Pluralism 16%
• 2024

  Aesthetic Testimony and Aesthetic Concepts

  SAUCHELLI, A., Jan 2024, In: American Philosophical Quarterly. 61, 1, p. 59-72 14 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Comprehension 100%
  • Aesthetic Testimony 50%
  • Aesthetic Turn 25%
  • Achievement 25%

• Conceptual engineering and the dynamics of linguistic intervention

  GIBBONS, A. F., 15 Jun 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Inquiry. 23 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Negative Consequence 100%
  • Conceptual Change 100%

• Construct Validity in Automated Counter-Terrorism Analysis

  YEE, A. K., 27 Nov 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Philosophy of Science.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Construct Validity 100%
  • Learning System 100%
  • Criterion Validity 50%
  • Artificial Intelligence 50%
  • Social Scientist 50%

• Delusion and Rationality

  GIBSON, Q. H. & BRADLEY, A., 15 Nov 2024, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion. SULLIVAN-BISSETT, E. (ed.). Routledge, p. 215-227 13 p.

  Research output: Book Chapters | Papers in Conference Proceedings › Book Chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Epistemic Rationality 100%

• Does contract surrogacy undermine gender equality?

  HILL, J., Oct 2024, In: Bioethics. 38, 8, p. 702-708 7 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Gender Equality 100%
  • Developed Countries 100%
  • Legislation 100%
  • Gender Inequality 100%

• Edgeworth's mathematization of social well-being

  YEE, A. K., Feb 2024, In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. 103, p. 5-15 11 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Wellbeing 100%
  • Economic Theory 33%
  • Ethics 33%
  • Psychology 33%
  • Stone Formation 33%

• Life-Suspending Technologies, Cryonics, and Catastrophic Risks

  SAUCHELLI, A., Aug 2024, In: Science and Engineering Ethics. 30, 4, 37.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Climate Change 100%
  • Existential Risk 100%
  • Catastrophic Risk 100%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Modal Knowledge for Expressivists

  HAWKE, P., Aug 2024, In: Journal of Philosophical Logic. 53, 4, p. 1109-1143 35 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • And-States 100%
  • Formal Semantics 100%
  • Expressivism 50%
  • Context sensitivity 50%
  • Epistemic modality 50%

• Moral judgments under uncertainty: risk, ambiguity and commission bias

  SONG, F., SHOU, Y., OLNEY, J. & YEUNG, F. S. H., Mar 2024, In: Current Psychology. 43, 11, p. 9793-9804 12 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Moral Judgment 100%
  • Biases 100%
  • Ambiguity 100%
  • Moral Dilemmas 75%
  • Research 50%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Stable acceptance for mighty knowledge

  HAWKE, P., Jul 2024, In: Philosophical Studies. 181, 6-7, p. 1627-1653 27 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Veridicality 100%
  • Sensitive Informations 66%
  • Classical Logic 33%
  • Semantic Domain 33%

• The puzzle of mood rationality

  BRADLEY, A. L., 1 Jul 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Noûs.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Mood 100%
  • Mental State 7%
  • Neuroscience 7%
  • Phenomenology 7%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Totalism, Animals, and the Repugnant Conclusion

  O'BRIEN, G. D., 18 Oct 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Utilitas. 19 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

• Why Prevent Human Extinction?

  FANCIULLO, J., Sept 2024, In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 109, 2, p. 650-662 13 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Moral reasons 100%
  • theorists 50%
  • Disagreement 50%
  • rivals 50%
  • Plausibility 50%
• 2023

  Against Epistemic Accounts of Luck

  HILL, J., Jul 2023, In: Analysis. 83, 3, p. 474-482 9 p., anad013.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Epistemic 100%
  • Luck 100%
  • Relatives 16%
  • Knowledge 16%

• Bad language makes good politics

  GIBBONS, A. F., 26 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Inquiry.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • bad language 100%
  • Politics 44%
  • Languages 33%
  • Political Discourse 22%
  • Quality 22%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• In Defence of the Acquaintance Principle in Aesthetics

  SAUCHELLI, A., 11 Oct 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Episteme. 19 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Acquaintance 100%
  • Object 100%
  • Esthetics 100%
  • Epistemology 50%
  • Labour 50%

• Information Deprivation and Democratic Engagement

  YEE, A. K., 16 Dec 2023, In: Philosophy of Science. 90, 5, p. 1110-1119 10 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Statistical Analysis 100%
  • Citizens' Involvement 20%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Machine learning, misinformation, and citizen science

  YEE, A. K., Dec 2023, In: European Journal for Philosophy of Science. 13, 4, 24 p., 56.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Conceptualization 100%
  • Science 100%
  • Learning 100%
  • Machines 100%
  • Construct Validity 100%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Medical epistemology meets economics : how (not) to GRADE universal basic income research

  YEE, A. K. & HAYAKAWA, K., Sept 2023, In: Journal of Economic Methodology. 30, 3, p. 245-264 20 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Evaluation 100%
  • Economic and Social Development 100%
  • Epistemology 100%
  • Research 100%
  • Grading 100%

• Network of AI and trustworthy : response to Simion and Kelp’s account of trustworthy AI

  SONG, F., Dec 2023, In: Asian Journal of Philosophy. 2, 2, 8 p., 58.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Enterprise 100%
  • Designer 100%
  • Anthropocentric 100%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Political ignorance is both rational and radical

  GIBBONS, A. F., Sept 2023, In: Synthese. 202, 3, 61.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Acquisitions 100%
  • Political Information 80%
  • Information 60%
  • Incentive 60%
  • Democracy 20%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Psychedelic Therapy as Affective Transformation

  BRADLEY, A., 22 Dec 2023, Transformation and the History of Philosophy. BRUNO, G. A. & VLASITS, J. (eds.). Taylor and Francis Ltd., p. 318-332 15 p.

  Research output: Book Chapters | Papers in Conference Proceedings › Book Chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Attitude 100%
  • Experience 100%
  • Anxiety 100%
  • Dose 100%
  • Depression 100%

• What’s wrong with virtue signaling?

  HILL, J. & FANCIULLO, J., Apr 2023, In: Synthese. 201, 4, 19 p., 117.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Warrants 100%
  • Folk 100%
  7 Citations (Scopus)
• 2022

  Digital suffering : why it’s a problem and how to prevent it

  SAAD, B. & BRADLEY, A., 23 Nov 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Inquiry. 36 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Prevents 100%
  • Monitor 66%
  • Digital Systems 50%
  • Digital System 50%
  • Problem 50%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

• Evolutionary Transition Markers and the Origins of Consciousness³

  HALINA, M., HARRISON, D. & KLEIN, C., Mar 2022, In: Journal of Consciousness Studies. 29, 3-4, p. 62-77 16 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Consciousness 100%
  • Plausibility 25%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• How Should We Study Animal Consciousness Scientifically?

  BIRCH, J., BROOM, D. M., BROWNING, H., CRUMP, A., GINSBURG, S., HALINA, M., HARRISON, D., JABLONKA, E., LEE, A. Y., KAMMERER, F., KLEIN, C., LAMME, V., MICHEL, M., WEMELSFELDER, F. & ZACKS, O., Mar 2022, In: Journal of Consciousness Studies. 29, 3-4, p. 8-28 21 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access
  21 Citations (Scopus)