Ching Hung (洪靖)

• Assistant Professor
• Director of E-Learning Division, Ching Chiang Center🖱️
• Board Member, Taiwan STS (Science, Technology and Society) Association
• PhD in Philosophy of Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands
   

✉️ hungching@ccu.edu.tw (Replies typically within 2-3 days)

☎️ +886 5 272 0411 ext. 37101 (Please contact primarily via E-mail)

💼 Room 403, Common Class Building (Appointment via E-mail is required)

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Areas of Specialization

• Science & Technology Studies (STS)
• Philosophy of Technology
• Social Design
   

Education

• Ph.D. | Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, The Netherlands (2019)
• M.A. | Institute of History, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (2009)
• B.S. | Department of Atomic Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (2006)
   

Academic Appointments

• Assistant Professor | Bachelor Program of Interdisciplinary Studies, National Chung Cheng University (Aug. 2022 - Present)
• Postdoctoral Researcher | Liberal Arts College, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Oct. 2021 - Jul. 2022)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor | General Education Center, National University of Kaohsiung (Aug. 2020 - Jan. 2022)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor | General Education Center, Feng Chia University (Feb. 2020 - Jan. 2022)
   

Honors and Grants

• Young Scholar Award, National Chung Cheng University (2024)
• Official Nominee for The Earthshot Prize by Taiwan's Nominator, NCKU (2023)
• Early Career Paper Award, Taiwan STS Association (2023)
• Emerging Young Scholars Grant, 2030 Cross-Generation Young Scholars Program, National Science and Technology Council (2023-2025)
• Invited Speaker (one of 25 globally), UNESCO World Philosophy Day (2021)
• Featured Interview, Kennislink (Official publication of NEMO Science Museum, The Netherlands) (2021)🖱️
• Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Prize, Taiwan STS Association (2020)🖱️
• Government Scholarship for Overseas Study, Ministry of Education (MOE)(2013-2016)
• Doctoral Program Entrance Scholarship, Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University (2013)
• Delta Netherlands Environmental Scholarship (Doctoral), Delta Electronics Foundation (2012)
   

Teaching Awards and Recognition

• Spring 2025 | Students' essay received Honorable Mention (out of 150 teams), National Professional Ethics Competition | Course: Introduction to Biomedicine's Science, Technology, and Society (National Chung Cheng University)
• Fall 2024 | Commendable Course Award, National Chung Cheng University | Course: Introduction to Systematic Innovation
• Spring 2024 | Commendable Course Award, National Chung Cheng University | Course: Academic Planning for Students in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program I
• Fall 2023 | Commendable Course Award, National Chung Cheng University | Course: Academic Planning for Students in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program II
• Spring 2023 | Commendable Course Award, National Chung Cheng University | Course: Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
• Fall 2022 | Commendable Course Award, National Chung Cheng University | Courses: Introduction to Social Design and Technology and Society
• Spring 2022 | Voted Featured Course, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University | Course: Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
• Fall 2021 | Commendable Course Award, National University of Kaohsiung | Course: Science, Technology and Society
• Fall 2020 | Students' essay and presentation received Excellence Award (out of 191 teams), National Professional Ethics Competition | Course: Technology and Engineering Ethics (National University of Kaohsiung)
   

Publications

A. Doctoral Dissertation

• • Hung, C. (2019). Design for Green: Ethics and Politics for Behavior-Steering Technology. Eindhoven, The Netherlands: 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology. [Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Prize, Taiwan STS Association, 2020]
     

B. Refereed Journal Articles

• • Hung, C., & Lo, Y.-Y. (2023). The Review of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (the final edition). Communication, Culture & Politics, 18, 113-119. (In Chinese)
  • Hung, C., & Kuo, W.-H. (2022). From STS to Liberal Arts Education: Traveling with Technology, Society and Human Beings (Volume 4). Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine, 35, 293-297. (In Chinese)
  • Hung, C. (2022). Rethinking Technology's Politics: Design, Power, and Democracy. Technoethics Inquiry, 1, 206-220. (In Chinese)
  • Hung, C. (2021). Design and Freedom: A Classification and Ethical Concerns for Behavior-Steering Technology. Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine, 32, 133-185. [Early Career Paper Award, Taiwan STS Association, 2023] (In Chinese)
  • Hung, C. (2020). CSI: Kuhn, SSK, and STS: A Review of A Genealogical History of STS and Its Multiple Constructions. Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine, 31, 203-211. (In Chinese)
  • Hung, C. & Jia, L. (2020). From Assessment to Design: What Is Really Needed in Technology Accompaniment to Achieve Subject Constitution?. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 15(1): 73-92.
  • Hung, C. (2015). Moralized Technology or Technologized Morality: A Book Review on Verbeek's Moralizing Technology. Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine, 20, 223-234. (In Chinese)
     

C. Book Chapters

• • Hung, C. (2021). Technological Mediation in and for Confucianism-Based Cultures. In Harmonious Technology: A Confucian Ethics of Technology, edited by Pak-Hang Wong & Xiaowei Wang. Routledge, pp.50-65.
  • Hung, C. (2014). A Report on Anti-Nuclear Activities in Taiwan and an STS Analysis. In W.-J. Wang, D.-W. Fu, & M.-F. Fan (Eds.), Taiwan: An Island Swamped in Technological Controversies (pp. 95-123). National Chiao Tung University Press. (In Chinese)
  • Hung, C. (2014). Architecture and Society: How a Green Design Promotes a Sustainable Living. In W.-Y. Lin, K.-Y. Yang, Y.-P. Chen, J.-T. Chen, & K.-H. Lo (Eds.), Technology, Society and Human Beings (Volume 2) (pp. 248-260). National Chiao Tung University Press. (In Chinese)
  • Hung, C. (2010). The Birth of the First Robot Image in Taiwanese Sci-Fi Comic Books, 1950-1970. In K.-Y. Yang, Y.-P. Chen, W.-Y. Lin, & C.-Y. Fang (Eds.), Technology, Society and Human Beings (Volume 1) (pp. 140-155). National Chiao Tung University Press. (In Chinese)
     

D. Conference Papers

• • Hung, C. (2025). "Outside-in: Rethinking Technologically Mediated Moral Enhancement", presented at the 24th Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
  • Hung, C. (2025). "The Birth of Taiwan's Local Sci-Fi Comic Robot: A Mirror of Taiwan's Science and Technology Culture", presented at UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative Conference, LA, US. [Invited]
  • Hung, C. (2024). "More than Protecting: Technological Shaping of Freedom", presented at Workshop on Engineering, Ethics and Technological Mediation, Osaka, Japan.
  • Hung, C. (2023). "Outside-in: An External Approach to Technologically Moral Enhancement", presented at the 10th Biennial Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Philosophy of Science Association, Hanoi, Vietnam. [Invited]
  • Hung, C. (2023). "An External Approach to Technologically Moral Enhancement: The Real-life Examples from Taiwan", presented at the 23rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Hung, C. (2022). "Outside-in: An External Approach to Moral Enhancement", presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Taiwanese Sociological Association, Pingtung, Taiwan. (In Chinese)
  • Hung, C. (2022). "Reversing the Path of Technological Moral Enhancement", presented at the 14th Annual Conference of the Taiwan STS Association, Hualien, Taiwan. (In Chinese)
  • Hung, C. (2021). "Seeing Behaviorism Through: The Last Mile of the Turn to New Materialism", presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Taiwanese Sociological Association, Taipei, Taiwan. (In Chinese)
  • Hung, C. (2021). "Freedom Is Not the Issue, But Relation Is: Contextualizing and Extending Technological Mediation Theory in East Asia", presented at the 13th Taiwan STS Association Annual Conference, Hualien, Taiwan.
  • Hung, C. (2020). "Let’s Forget Agency: A True Symmetry between Humans and Non-humans", presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Taiwanese Sociological Association, Taipei, Taiwan. (In Chinese)
  • Hung, C. (2020). "Design, Power, and Democracy: Re-visiting the Political Nature of Technical Artifacts", presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Taiwan STS Association, Hsinchu, Taiwan. (In Chinese)
  • Hung, C. (2018). "Preserving Freedom? Ethical Solutions for Behavior-Steering Technology", presented at the 2018 World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, China. (In Chinese)
     

E. Public Essays

• • Over 120 essays published in print and online media, including Business Weekly, PanSci, Independent Review @ Common Wealth Magazine, La Vie, StoryStudio, etc. Full list here🖱️(In Chinese)。
     

Research Projects

• Bottom-up Interdisciplinarity: An Intertwined History of Taiwan's iGEM Participation, Synthetic Biology, and Bio-industry (National Science and Technology Council, 2025-2028)
• The Democratic Dilemma of Behavioral-Steering Technologies: Reconstructing the Concept of Freedom and Reflecting on Institutional Frameworks (Cross-Institutional Collaborative Research Project in Humanities and Social Sciences, Taiwan Comprehensive University System, 2025)
• The Next Step for Technology Studies: Refiguring the Image of Humanity for a Techno-Society (Emerging Young Scholars Grant, ational Science and Technology Council, 2023-2025)
• STS as Foundation for the Program of Interdisciplinary Studies? (Cross-Institutional Collaborative Research Project in Humanities and Social Sciences, Taiwan Comprehensive University System, 2024)
   

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