Jonathan Sim is an Instructor with the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. He is passionate about teaching and he continues to research fun and innovative ways
of engaging students to learn effectively. He has been teaching general education modules to a diverse range of undergraduate students and adult learners at the University.
He teaches a course on “Computational Reasoning,”
equipping hundreds of humanities and social science students and unemployed adult learners with the technical skills of coding and data analysis and the philosophical critical thinking skills required to work effectively. In addition,
he teaches other courses like, “Confucianism in the Modern World,” so that students can gain insights on how to adapt ancient philosophical ideas to address modern-day problems. He also mentors and supervises students for industrial
internships in the tech sector ("Computational Reasoning in the Corporate World"), and he trains many undergraduate Teaching Assistants under the "University Teaching Opportunity Programme (UTOP)." For his passion in teaching, Jonathan
received the recipient Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (FTEA) for AY2019/2020.
Jonathan has a special interest in crossing beyond disciplinary boundaries in search of fascinating new insights to age-old problems. For his knowledge
of philosophy across a spectrum of issues, he has been invited to discuss philosophical issues about technology and society in panel discussions for the Financial Times, Channel NewsAsia, and the Institute of Asian Consumer Insight. He
recently edited the book, “Buying Time for Climate Action,” on the socio-political challenges of combating climate change (New Jersey: World Scientific, 2021); as well as “The Grand Challenges for Science in the 21st
Century” (New Jersey: World Scientific, 2018), featuring insights from Nobel Laureates and top scientists from around the world. He also had the opportunity to co-author “Memoirs of a Flying Tiger” (New Jersey: World
Scientific, 2019) a biography of a 100+ year old WW2 veteran and the pioneer pilot of Singapore International Airlines.