Ka-yu Hui
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Boston College, USA
Academic Expertise: Continental Philosophy (especially German Phenomenology), Social and Political Philosophy
e-mail: kayuhui@g-mail.nsysu.edu.tw
Tel:07-5252000#3224
Academic Learning Degrees
2025: PhD in Philosophy, Boston College, USA
2018: Master of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Academic Positions
August 2025 - May 2026: Full-time Lecturer, Gonzaga University, USA
I. Doctoral Dissertation
1. 2025, Personhood and the social world: A Husserlian phenomenology of sociality, Boston College.
II. Papers in Journals, Proceedings, and Encyclopedias
1. Forthcoming 2026, Power, violence, and narration: an Arendtian account. Arendt Studies 10.
2. 2026, Personhood, as a concept in phenomenology. In de Warren, N., Toadvine, T. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Phenomenology. Springer.
3. 2025, Husserl, the imagination, and critique. International Journal of Social Imaginaries 4(2): 147–157.
4. 2024, Ricoeur, ideology critique, and genetic phenomenology. International Journal of Social Imaginaries 3(1): 64–86.
5. 2023, The expressive structure of the person in Husserl’s social phenomenology: From subjective spirit to cultural spiritual shape. In Andrej Božič (ed.), Thinking Togetherness. Phenomenology and Sociality, Institute Nova Revija for the Humanities: 117–130.
6. 2022, The hyle of imagination and reproductive consciousness: Husserl’s phenomenology of phantasy reconsidered. Husserl Studies 38: 273–292.
III. Conference Papers
1. 2025,Response to Lanei Rodemeyer's "The aporias of time: Phenomenological considerations". The 9th annual Boston Phenomenology Circle Symposium, Boston University & Boston College, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
2. 2024,Personhood and the foundations of social experience: A Husserlian approach. Phänomenologische Werkstatt, Husserl Archives Cologne, University of Cologne, Germany.
3. 2023,Response to Daniele Lorenzini's "Epistemic colonization and the politics of truth". Fanon Unbound: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Frantz Fanon, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
4. 2023,What intuition for genesis? On the role of intuition in Husserl's static and genetic phenomenology. 2023 conference of the North American Society for Early Phenomenology, The University of San Diego, California, U.S.A.
5. 2023,Violence, promise, and forgiveness: Arendt and Benjamin on the political. 16th Annual Meeting of the Hannah Arendt Circle, The University of Verona, Italy.
6. 2022,When violence speaks: Hannah Arendt and the narrative transformation of violence. New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy Virtual Conference, The Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn University, Germany.
7. 2022,Retrieving the phantasmatic content in Husserl's phenomenology of Phantasie. 51st Husserl Circle Meeting, The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
8. 2021,The "matter" of imagination in Husserl's phenomenology of Phantasie reconsidered. The 14th Graduate Conference, Gonzaga University, U.S.A. (Winner of the Hutchins Prize for the best paper delivered)
9. 2021,Expressivity of the person and the human sciences. Annual conference of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (with the SPEP annual conference).
10. 2021,The double expressivity of the person in Husserl's social phenomenology: From subjective spirit to cultural spiritual shape. Annual Conference of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology, Institute Nova Revija for the Humanities, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
11. 2020,Phantasy, possibility and the free variation: Methodological rudiments for phenomenology as an eidetic science. Annual conference of the North American Society for Early Phenomenology, St. John's University, NY, U.S.A. Conference cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
12. 2020,Reproductive consciousness in Husserl's phenomenology. Time, Object, and Consciousness in Phenomenology, Macau University, Macau.
13. 2018,Imagination and imaginary pain. The 4th Conference on Traditions and Perspectives of the Phenomenological Movement in Central and Eastern Europe, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.
14. 2017,Problematic in the nascent state: The imagination in the Logical Investigations. Workshop on Phenomenology and East Asia, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
15. 2016,The content-apprehension schema of intentionality and the case of imagination. Productive Imagination: its history, significance, and limit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
16. 2015,On Husserl's Cartesianism. Graduate Conference, "Forms of Rationality: Perspectives from German Philosophy and Beyond", The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
17. 2013,Foucault's history of the present and Heidegger's existential analytic of Dasein. The 7th Symposia Phaenomenologica Asiatica, The Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology, Hong Kong.
IV. Other Articles
1. 2022,〈從觸覺的倫理到後新冠時代:卡尼Richard Kearney《Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense》〉,刊於《明報》。
2. 2021,〈專訪哲學家卡尼 Richard Kearney 〉(上、下),刊於《明報》。
3. 2020,〈抗爭、妥協與烏托邦 〉,刊於《明報》。
4. 2018,〈身體的悲劇 ── 讀卡夫卡《變形記》〉,刊於《號外》。
5. 2016,〈只有一個真正嚴肅的哲學問題,那就是自殺〉,刊於《明報》。
