My expertise is in social, political and legal philosophy; science and public policy; applied ethics; and disaster risk reduction. I am also interested in things like urban infrastructure and the built environment; the philosophy of social science; philosophy and popular culture; the ethics of dealing with historical injustice; and what we might broadly call minority philosophy (e.g. questions of race, gender, disability and so on).
At Warwick, I am affiliated with the Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs (CELPA) and the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group’s project on Ethics in Climate and Development. I’m also a member of the UCL Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR), the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the Consortium for Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering (SRPoiSE).
My work has appeared in the American Journal of Bioethics, AJOB Neuroscience and Nature Climate Change, among other venues. I am currently working on projects on intergenerational justice and historical injustice. I have recently published a book chapter on bureaucracy and structural injustice. My popular culture research, aimed at a general audience, can be found in Taylor Swift and Philosophy: Essays from the Tortured Philosophers Department and Bridgerton and Philosophy: Dukes, Debutantes and Deep Questions. My next project in this area is a book chapter on the ethics of self-creation for The Bear and Philosophy (expected release date 2027).
You can get in touch with me via email at Gah-Kai.Leung@warwick.ac.uk or via the social media icons at the bottom of this page.
Disclaimer: The views represented in my academic and policy work are my own and do not necessarily represent those of my university or of any third parties.
