Yale-NUS College has a robust number of Philosophy faculty for a liberal arts and sciences college, and all Philosophy faculty are active researchers. Hence, Yale-NUS students have multiple first-hand opportunities to conduct research with faculty mentors.

Students have served as research assistants on faculty research projects including:

• “Person and Animal: Essays on Human Nature.”
• “Money Without State: The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Cryptocurrency.”
• “Monotheism and Human Nature.”
• “Love, Immortality, and Virtue: Themes in Plato and Aristotle.”
• “Spinoza’s Politics.”
• “Applying Political Philosophy to Real World Cases.”
• “Solidarity and Social Change.”
• “Early Modern Philosophy and Political Thought: Connections beyond Europe.”
• “Buddhist-Platonist Dialogues.”

Students have collaborated with faculty on publications such as:

• “Atoms and Orientation”, in Atomism in Philosophy, Ugo Zilioli, ed. Bloomsbury Academic (2020).
• “Review of Richard Swinburne, Are We Bodies or Souls?” Faith and Philosophy (2020).

Students have presented their own philosophical research at platforms including:

• Australasian Association of Philosophy “Outstanding Undergraduate Philosophy” site.
• International Association of Political Science Students Academic Conference (2018).
• Singapore Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (2018, 2019).
• American Philosophical Association Undergraduate Public Philosophy Writing Contest (2019, honorable mention, including publication on the APA blog’s “Women in Philosophy” series).
• Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Australasia Conference (2021; including publication in the UPJA).