Frederick Choo

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Rutgers—New Brunswick

Areas of Interest: Ethics (including Normative Ethics & Metaethics), Philosophy of Religion

Personal Homepage: https://frederick-choo.weebly.com/

Email: frederick-choo@outlook.com
Phone: +90-312-290 1072
Office: tbd

 

 

About

Frederick Choo joined the department in 2026 after completing his PhD at Rutgers University earlier that same year. Before that, he completed an MA and BA in philosophy at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (where he is from). His main research areas are in ethics and philosophy of religion. His work has been published in journals such as Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, and Faith and Philosophy. Currently, his main research program focuses on various issues related to theories of well-being. Outside of philosophy, Frederick finds joy in making his own music, especially through playing percussive fingerstyle acoustic guitar. He also plays Counterstrike, a first-person shooter game.

 

Sample publications

Choo, F. (2025). The Loop Trolley Case Strikes Again! A Threat to the Doctrine of Double Effect and the Mere Means Principle. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 111(1), 195–215.

Choo, F. (2025). Desire Satisfactionism and Temporal Well-Being: Time for a New View. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 30(4), 600–627.

Choo, F. (2025). A Non-Vacuist Response to the Counterpossible Terrible Commands Objection. Erkenntnis, 90, 2421–2436.

Choo, F. (2024). The Subjective Ought and the Accessibility of Moral Truths. American Philosophical Quarterly, 61(3), 245–253.

Choo, F. (2023). Conversational Implicatures Cannot Save Divine Command Theory from the Counterpossible Terrible Commands Objection. Religious Studies, 59(4), 852–858.

Choo, F., & Goh, E. (2022). Addressing Two Recent Challenges to the Factive Account of Knowledge. Synthese, 200(435), 1–14.

Choo, F. (2022). Can a Worship-worthy Agent Command Worship? Religious Studies, 58(1), 79–95.

Choo, F. (2021). The Epistemic Significance of Religious Disagreements: Cases of Unconfirmed Superiority Disagreements. Topoi, 40(5), 1139–1147.

Choo, F. (2019). The Prior Obligations Objection to Theological Stateism. Faith and Philosophy, 36(3), 372–384.

Choo, F. (2019). Telling Others to Do What You Believe Is Morally Wrong: The Case of Confucius and Zai Wo. Asian Philosophy, 29(2), 106–115.