Eugene Chua
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Eugene Chua
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Eugene
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Chua
Years Affiliated
2025
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Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
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Singapore
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Nanyang Assistant Professor of Philosophy, School of Humanities
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Asst Professor Eugene Chua is a Nanyang Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Nanyang Technological University, where he is working under the Nanyang Assistant Professorship grant. Prior to this, he was a Ahmanson postdoctoral instructor in philosophy of science at Caltech.
His primary research interests lie in the philosophy of physics, centering on the conceptual foundations of thermodynamics and the extent to which thermodynamics can be considered universal. More specifically, his works in this area assess the extent to which classical thermodynamics and its concepts can be extended to the quantum, relativistic, or quantum gravity regimes.
In other branches of the philosophy of physics, he has worked on the question of the disappearance (and emergence) of time in quantum gravity, where it is sometimes said that time vanishes at the fundamental level. In the foundations of quantum mechanics, he is currently working on the question of whether we can recover probability and locality in the Everettian or 'many-worlds' (unitary quantum mechanics) framework.
His work in the philosophy of physics has recently led him to consider broader questions in the philosophy of science, such as whether idealizations need to be de-idealized in some sense to be justified, and how consilience suitably and concretely understood in the case of thermodynamics can lead to a test of pragmatist reality and operational coherence.
Beyond hus main research area, I also work on the ethics of AI, with some recent work -- funded by Caltech's Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy -- assessing the ethical risks of applying large language models to the context of outpatient psychiatric healthcare.
His primary research interests lie in the philosophy of physics, centering on the conceptual foundations of thermodynamics and the extent to which thermodynamics can be considered universal. More specifically, his works in this area assess the extent to which classical thermodynamics and its concepts can be extended to the quantum, relativistic, or quantum gravity regimes.
In other branches of the philosophy of physics, he has worked on the question of the disappearance (and emergence) of time in quantum gravity, where it is sometimes said that time vanishes at the fundamental level. In the foundations of quantum mechanics, he is currently working on the question of whether we can recover probability and locality in the Everettian or 'many-worlds' (unitary quantum mechanics) framework.
His work in the philosophy of physics has recently led him to consider broader questions in the philosophy of science, such as whether idealizations need to be de-idealized in some sense to be justified, and how consilience suitably and concretely understood in the case of thermodynamics can lead to a test of pragmatist reality and operational coherence.
Beyond hus main research area, I also work on the ethics of AI, with some recent work -- funded by Caltech's Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy -- assessing the ethical risks of applying large language models to the context of outpatient psychiatric healthcare.
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“Eugene Chua,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed September 10, 2026, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/4654.