Michael Hemmingsen
Michael Hemmingsen
Title : Associate Professor
Education : Ph.D. in Philosophy, McMaster University, Canada
OfficePhone : 39301 (PG-IC 310-1)
OfficeHour : Wednesday 15:00-16:20; Thursday 15:00-16:20 or By Appointment
E-mail : mhemmingsen@thu.edu.tw
Professional Experiences >>>
- Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Guam, USA (2018.01-2021.12)
- Teaching Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2017.06-2017-12)
- Senior Tutor, Massey University, New Zealand (2016.02-2016.07)
Research Expertise >>>
- Ethics and Political Philosophy
- Comparative Philosophy
- Philosophy of Sport/Games
Books
| Sort | Year | Name |
|---|---|---|
1 |
2024 |
Ethical Theory in Global Perspective. SUNY Press. |
Journal Papers
| Sort | Year | Name |
|---|---|---|
1 |
2026 |
“Virtue-al Ethics?” Virtue Theory and Video Games: Level Up Your Character, edited by Nicholas Baima and Sarah Malanowski. Routledge, 72-90 |
2 |
2026 |
“Authoring Physics: The Ontology of Video Games.” Philosophy and Technology, vol. 39:5, 1-21. |
3 |
2025 |
“Act Consequentialism and the Gamer’s Dilemma.” Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 27:19: 1-10. |
4 |
2025 |
“Unité et multiplicité: Métaphysique et éthique chez Spinoza, Zhang Zai et dans le bouddhisme chán.” In Éthique et impersonnalité : Ontologies occidentales et bouddhistes du sujet, edited by Gordon Davis, Sandy Hinzelin & Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck. Paris: Éditions Hermann, 237-261. |
5 |
2024 |
“Framing the Gamer’s Dilemma.” Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 26:59: 1-10. |
6 |
2024 |
“Zhuangzi and Ideological State Apparatuses.” Philosophy & Social Criticism, 1-18. |
7 |
2024 |
“Mapping the Terrain of Sport: A Core-Periphery Model.” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, vol. 41, no. 1: 102-124. |
8 |
2023 |
“Movement Compression, Sport and eSport.” European Journal for Sport and Society, vol. 21, no. 2, 170-187. |
9 |
2023 |
“Towards a Value Neutral Definition of Sport.” Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 1-16. |
10 |
2023 |
“What is a Metagame?” Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 1-17. |
11 |
2022 |
“Carl Schmitt, Sportspersonship, and the Ius Publicum Ludis.” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, vol. 49 no. 1, 37-51 |
12 |
2022 |
“Sameness, Difference and Environmental Concern in the Metaphysics and Ethics of Spinoza and Chan Buddhism.” Comparative Philosophy, vol. 13, no. 1, 58-76. |
13 |
2021 |
“Code is Law: Subversion and Collective Knowledge in the Ethos of Video Game Speedrunning.” Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, vol. 15 no. 3, 435-460. |
14 |
2021 |
“Cheaters Never Prosper? Winning by Deception in Purely Professional Games of Pure Chance.” Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, vol. 15 no. 2, 266-284. |
15 |
2020 |
“The Tension Between Divine Command Theory and Utilitarianism in Mozi and George Berkeley: A Comparison.” Philosophy East & West, vol. 70 no. 3, 740-756 |
16 |
2020 |
“The Tension Between Divine Command Theory and Utilitarianism in Mozi and George Berkeley: A Comparison.” Philosophy East & West, vol. 70 no. 3, 740-756 |
17 |
2020 |
“Soul-Making and Social Progress.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 88 no 1, 81-96. |
18 |
2018 |
“Māyā and Becoming: Deleuze and Vedānta on Attributes, Acosmism, and Parallelism in Spinoza.” Comparative and Continental Philosophy, vol 10 no 3, 238-250. |
19 |
2016 |
“Coercion, Value and Justice: Redistribution in a Neutral State.” Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, vol 61 no 138, 37-49. |
Conference Papers
| Sort | Year | Name |
|---|---|---|
1 |
2026 |
“Beyond Consciousness: Project-Commitment and Moral Status in AI.” SIpEIA Conference 2026: Ethics for AI: Challenges, Opportunities, and Human-Centered Perspectives, Sapienza Università di Roma, February 2026. |
2 |
2025 |
“Deterrence Theory: The Price of Everything, the Value of Nothing.” Invited talk at Department of Philosophy, University of Waikato, January 2025. |
3 |
2025 |
“Bait and Switch: Frankfurt’s Compatibilism as Crypto-Libertarianism.” ICIC, International College, Tunghai University, June 2025. |
4 |
2025 |
Act Consequentialism and the Gamer’s Dilemma.” Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, George Brown College, June 2025. |
5 |
2025 |
“Occasional Intervention, Threshold Deontology and the Free Will Defense.” Canadian Society for the Study of Religion Annual Meeting, George Brown College, June 2025. |
6 |
2025 |
“Ecological Curation and Moral Cost: The Nature We Like.” Green Marble 2025: Internacional Meeting on Anthropocene Studies and Ecocriticism, University of Porto, September 2025. |
7 |
2025 |
“AI, Relational Thinking, and the Democratization of Philosophy.” Rethinking the Practice of Thinking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, University of Beira Interior, September 2025. |
8 |
2025 |
“Beyond the Syntax/Semantics Gap: A Functionalist Dissolution of the Chinese Room.” (En)Active Minds and AI Workshop, University of Porto, September 2025. |
9 |
2024 |
“Zhuangzi and Ideological State Apparatuses.” 12th East-West Philosopher’s Conference, University of Hawaii, May 2024. |
10 |
2023 |
“eSports and Movement Compression.” Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies, Nagoya Zokei University, August 2023. |
11 |
2019 |
“Mozi’s Pantheism and Berkeley Theism: Dissolving (Or Not) the Tension between Consequentialism and Divine Command Theory.” Invited panel presentation at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, December 2019 |
12 |
2019 |
“Mozi’s Pantheism and Berkeley Theism: Dissolving (Or Not) the Tension between Consequentialism and Divine Command Theory.” International Society of East Asian Philosophy 2019 Conference, Meiji University, Tokyo, December 2019. |
13 |
2019 |
“Do Cheaters Never Prosper? Winning by Deception in Purely Professional Games of Pure Chance.” Philosophy and Gambling, University of Macau, Macau, October 2019. |
14 |
2019 |
“Divine Utilitarianism: Consequentialist Ethics in Mozi and George Berkeley.” Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy 2019, Tokyo, Japan, March 2019. |
15 |
2018 |
“Representing Ourselves: Ecological Truth Claims and the Ontology of Deliberation.” New Zealand Political Science Association Conference 2018, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, November 2018. |
16 |
2018 |
“Daoist Socialism: Althusser and Zhuangzi on Ideological State Apparatuses.” Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference 2018, The Philosophy Research Initiative, Western Sydney University, November 2018. |
17 |
2013 |
“Edmund Burke and Green Political Thought: Environmental and Social Conservatisms.” Concerned Philosophers for Peace 2013 National Conference, California State University, Fresno, Yosemite National Park, California, October 2013. |
Research Projects
| Sort | Year | Name |
|---|---|---|
1 |
2025 |
"2025-2026. Sport Across Cultures: Mapping Cross-Cultural Criteria" |
2 |
2024 |
Understanding the Concept of Sport: The Core-Periphery Model (NSTC) |