Chong-Fuk Lau (NHC Fellow, 2025–26)

Professor Lau received his BEng in information engineering and MPhil in philosophy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong followed by a PhD in philosophy from Heidelberg University in Germany. After a brief teaching stint in Germany, supported by a Humboldt Fellowship, he joined the Department of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Throughout his career, he has held visiting positions at prestigious institutions worldwide, including the Free University of Berlin, Harvard University, Columbia University, Kyoto University, and Oxford University, supported by competitive fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Fulbright Program, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC).

His research interests span classical German philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. Beyond academia, he enjoys traveling, football, and outdoor activities, and he is also a licensed paragliding pilot.

Selected Publications

• Lau, Chong-Fuk. Hegel’s Speculative Proposition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
• Lau, Chong-Fuk, Sven Bernecker, and Lucy Allais, eds. Global Perspective on Kant. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Forthcoming.
• Lau, Chong-Fuk. “Kant’s Transcendental-Psychological Approach to Metaphysics.” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 32, no. 5 (2024): 516–37.
• Lau, Chong-Fuk, and Chun-Yip Lowe. “Kant on Community.” In The Oxford Handbook of Kant, edited by Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson, 353–71. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
• Lau, Chong-Fuk. “Kant’s Negative Noumena as Abstracta.” In The Being of Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy, edited by Gregory Moss, 33–55. Dordrecht: Springer, 2022.