Scholars' Library: Brian Wong on 'Moral Debt'
In our September event, Dr. Brian Wong (Hong Kong & Balliol 2020) will discuss his book Moral Debt: Defending a New Account of Reparative Justice.
Brian is a HKU-100 Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. His research examines the ethics and dynamics of authoritarian regimes and their foreign policies, historical and colonial injustices, and the intersection of geopolitics, political and moral philosophy, and technology. At HKU, he serves as a Fellow at the Centre on Contemporary China and the World, sits on the Steering Committee for the Hong Kong Ethics Lab, and advises the Interdisciplinary Dynamics: Ethics, AI, and Society at the Institute of Data Science. He also serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Inquiry, having presented and written on issues of public philosophy for the Journal of Practical Ethics, the American Philosophical Association, and the Royal Institute of Philosophy. Brian co-founded and now advises Oxford Political Review, a publication aspiring to bridge the theory-practice gap. He is a HKSAR (2020) Rhodes Scholar, having read his DPhil at Balliol College, University of Oxford.
Date: 16 September 2025, 14:00
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Brian Wong (University of Hong Kong)
Organising department: Rhodes House
Organiser: Rhodes Trust (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: nayana.niji@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk
Host: Rhodes Trust (University of Oxford)
Part of: Scholars' Library
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://bit.ly/ScholarsLibraryBrianWong
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Lucy Mercer