H o n g   Y u   W o n g

Professor, Chair of Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science

Head, CIN Philosophy of Neuroscience Group

University of Tübingen

hong-yu.wong [AT] uni-tuebingen.de

Current Research Themes:

• Embodiment and Body Cognition

• Philosophy and Cognitive Science of Action 

• Philosophy of AI and VR

• The Evolution of Subjectivity, Consciousness, Cognition, Affect, and Agency

• Methodology, Explanation, and Reduction

• Aesthetic Psychology, especially Musical Cognition

• History and Philosophy of Music 

• History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

News: 

• New paper on the methodology of studying agency in artificial systems out in Frontiers of Cognition: Hong Yu Wong (2025) Interrogating Artificial Agency, Frontiers of Cognition, Research Topic: Varieties of Agency.

• New paper on the aesthetics of stage magic out in British Journal of Aesthetics! Pablo R Grassi, Vincent Plikat, Hong Yu Wong (2023) How can we be moved by magic?, The British Journal of Aesthetics.

• New paper on the sense of agency in Schizoprenia out in PNAS!  Roth, M. J., Lindner, A., Hesse, K., Wildgruber, D., Wong, H. Y., & Buehner, M. J. (2023). Impaired perception of temporal contiguity between action and effect is associated with disorders of agency in Schizophrenia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

• Debut concert of the Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus at the Tübinger Stiftskirche (Nov 2022).

• PONS organises a Book Symposium in 4 seminar sessions on Ruth Millikan's Beyond Concepts (Oxford 2017).  We are very excited to be discussing Ruth's book with her! (February 2021). 

• "Embodied Agency", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 2018.

• Watch Wong's lecture in the University of Hamburg lecture series "Geist, Gehirn, Bewusstsein" (May 2019)

• Watch Wong's keynote lecture at the conference on Persons, Selves, and Organisms at Bilkent University (Dec 2016)

• Attempto! (Dec 2011) profiles Wong and the PONS Group (in German)