LAU Chong-fuk 劉創馥
B.Eng., M.Phil. (CUHK); Dr.phil. (Heidelberg)

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Tel: 2609 7137
Fax: 2603 5323
Email: cflau@cuhk.edu.hk

Brief Biography:
Dr. Lau started out in the Information Engineering program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. During his undergraduate years, he took courses from different departments and discovered his true interest in a quite different field - philosophy. Due to this intense interest, he finally decided to further his education in the Department of Philosophy after completing his Bachelor's Degree in Engineering. He chose the German philosopher Kant as the topic for his Master's Thesis, which, later on, led him to pursue a PhD in Germany. Thanks to a DAAD scholarship, he was able to study at the University of Heidelberg, the oldest university in Germany. Upon completion of his doctoral thesis on Hegel, he was awarded a research fellowship by the Humboldt Foundation and taught at the Institute of Philosophy in Darmstadt. He returned to CUHK in 2004 to work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy.
Both at work and at leisure, he is almost always on the computer. He often complains about spending too much time on the internet. Back to the real world, he enjoys traveling, all kinds of ball games and various outdoor activities; he is also a paraglider pilot.

Research Interests:
1. German Idealism
2. Metaphysics
3. Epistemology
4. Philosophy of Mind

Recent/ Representative Publications:
1. “Freedom, Spontaneity and the Noumenal Perspective.” Forthcoming in Kant-Studien.
2. “Language and Metaphysics: The Dialectics of Hegel’s Speculative Proposition.” Forthcoming in Hegel and Language, ed. J. Surber. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
3. Hegels Urteilskritik: Systematische Untersuchungen zum Grundproblem der spekulativen Logik, vol. 6 of the series jena-sophia. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2004 (ISBN: 3-7705-3898-6).
4. “Die Struktur der transzendentalen Deduktion und das Problem des Selbstbewusstseins.” In Kant und die Berliner Aufklaerung, ed. V. Gerhardt et. al., Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2001, vol. 2, 362-371.
5. “Voraussetzungs- und Bestimmungslosigkeit: Bemerkungen zum Problem des Anfangs in Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik.” In Perspektiven der Philosophie: Neues Jahrbuch 26 (2000), 287-323.