Dr Chong-Ming Lim (he/him)
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Lecturer in Political Philosophy
cm.lim@sheffield.ac.uk
417, 9 Mappin Street
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Dr Chong-Ming Lim
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
417
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
417
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT
- Profile
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Chong-Ming "CM" Lim joined the School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities in September 2025. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Singapore, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford.
- Qualifications
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- DPhil (Oxford)
- MPhil (UCL)
- Research interests
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CM's research interests include:
- The ethics and politics of commemorations
- Political resistance
- Racial injustice
- Climate justice
- Disability rights
- Bioethics and medical ethics
- Reactive attitudes
- Public reason liberalism
He is happy to hear from MA / PhD students who are interested in working on these topics.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- No Justice, No Peace: The Ethics of Violent Protests, by Avia Pasternak. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 288.. Mind. View this article in WRRO
- Commemorative Artefactual Speech. Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 12(39), 1013-1038. View this article in WRRO
- Commemoration and constriction. The Journal of Ethics, 29, 43-62. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching & learning guide for: objectionable commemorations: ethical and political issues. Philosophy Compass, 19(3). View this article in WRRO
- Objectionable commemorations: ethical and political issues. Philosophy Compass, 19(2). View this article in WRRO
- The legitimate targets of political disobedience. Philosophers' Imprint, 23(8). View this article in WRRO
- Environmental activism and the fairness of costs argument for uncivil disobedience. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 9(3), 490-509. View this article in WRRO
- Clarifying our duties to resist. Inquiry, 67(9), 3527-3546. View this article in WRRO
- Transforming problematic commemorations through vandalism. Journal of Global Ethics, 16(3), 414-421.
- Vandalizing Tainted Commemorations. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 48(2), 185-216.
- Effectiveness and Ecumenicity. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 16(5), 590-612.
- Disabilities Are Also Legitimately Medically Interesting Constraints on Legitimate Interests. Mind, 127(508), 977-1002.
- Reviewing Resistances to Reconceptualizing Disability. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 117(3), 321-331.
- An Incomplete Inclusion of Non-cooperators into a Rawlsian Theory of Justice. Res Philosophica, 93(4), 893-920.
- Clarifying the best interests standard: the elaborative and enumerative strategies in public policy-making. Journal of Medical Ethics, 42(8), 542-549.
- Accommodating Autistics and Treating Autism: Can We Have Both?. Bioethics, 29(8), 564-572.
- Civil disobedience and state anxiety. British Journal of Political Science. View this article in WRRO
Book chapters
- Public Reason, Compromise within Consensus, and Legitimacy, New Perspectives on Distributive Justice (pp. 225-242). De Gruyter
Conference proceedings
- No Justice, No Peace: The Ethics of Violent Protests, by Avia Pasternak. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 288.. Mind. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching interests
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CM is interested in teaching courses on moral and political philosophy, and their relevance for popular culture.
- Teaching activities
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- HPH122 Ethics and Society
- HPH369 Political resistance
- Professional activities and memberships
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Book Reviews Editor (Journal of Applied Philosophy); Associate Editor (Analysis Reviews)