Hsin-Wen Lee
Hsin-Wen Lee
Office location
15 Kent Way, Room 207, Newark, DE 19716
Education
- Ph.D. – University of Southern California
- M.A. – National Chung Cheng University
- B.A. – Chinese Culture University
Biography
Hsin-Wen Lee, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Delaware. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. His areas of specialization are political philosophy and philosophy of law.
Current Work
Pphilosophy of criminal punishment, nationalism and multiculturalism
Sample of Publications
“Cultural Nationalism and Just Secession,” in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Justice and East Asian Philosophy, Janusz Salamon and Hsin-Wen Lee (eds.), Bloomsbury, August 2024.
“Consequentialist Theories of Punishment” in The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Punishment, Matthew Altman (ed.), Palgrave, 2023, pp.149-169.
“The Instrumental Value Arguments for National Self-Determination,” Dialogue—Canadian Philosophical Review, Vol. 58, Issue 1, March 2019, pp. 65-89.
“A New Societal Self-Defense Theory of Punishment—The Rights-Protection Theory,” Philosophia—Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol 46, Issue 2, June 2018, pp. 337-353.
“In the Name of Equality—An Examination of Equality Arguments for National Self-Government,” in Reimagining Nation and Nationalism in Multicultural East Asia, Sungmoon Kim and Hsin-Wen Lee (eds.), Routledge, 2018, pp. 36-56.
“Taking Deterrence Seriously—The Wide-Scope Deterrence Theory of Punishment,” Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 36, no. 1, April, 2017, pp. 2-24.
“Institutional Morality and the Principle of National Self-Determination,” Philosophical Studies, Vol. 172, Issue 1, 2015, pp. 207-226.
“The Identity Argument for National Self-Determination,” Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 2, April 2012, pp. 123-139.
Courses Regularly Taught
| PHIL 201 Social and Political Philosophy |
| PHIL 202 Contemporary Moral Problems |
| PHIL 203 Ethics |
