Dr. Melvin Chen

Selected Philosophy Publications

Melvin Chen. Care, Narrativity, & the Nature of Disponibilité.
In: Hypatia (2015), 30, pp. 778-793.


Melvin Chen. Is Ethics Nonsense?: The Imagination, & the Spirit against the Limit.
In: Philosophy & Literature (2015), 39, pp. 172-187.


Melvin Chen. Apologia pro Vita-Fabula Sua : Defending Narrativity & How We Make Sense of Our Lives.
In: The Southern Journal of Philosophy (2015), 53, pp. 251-268.


Melvin Chen. Philosophy & Literature: Problems of a Philosophical Subdiscipline.
In: Philosophy & Literature (2017), 41, pp. 471-482.


Melvin Chen. Criterial Problems in Creative Cognition Research.
In: Philosophical Psychology (2018), 31, pp. 368-382.


Melvin Chen. A Tale of Two Deficits: Causality & Care in Medical AI.
In: Philosophy & Technology (2020), 33, pp. 245-267.


Melvin Chen. Imagination Machines, Dartmouth-based Turing Tests, & A Potted History of Responses.
In: AI & Society (2020), 35, pp. 283-287.


Melvin Chen and Lock Yue Chew. Causal Reasoning & Meno's Paradox.
In: AI & Society (2020), pp. 1-9.


Melvin Chen. The Is-Ought Gap & The Substitution Criterion.
In: South African Journal of Philosophy (2021; forthcoming).
A version of the manuscript may be downloaded here:


Melvin Chen. Trust & Trust-engineering in Artificial Intelligence Research: Theory & Praxis.
In: Philosophy & Technology (2021; forthcoming).
A version of the manuscript may be downloaded here:

Selected Poetry

Melvin Chen. Ekphrases: Rothko, Picasso, Klimt.


In: Tipton Poetry Journal (2013), 25, pp. 56-57.


Melvin Chen. kami no michi .


In: Eunoia Review (2015), 25.


Melvin Chen. The Other - Inspired by the Proxima Centauri .


In: LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction (2017), 9, p. 62.

Selected Art

Melvin Chen. Lord Leighton's Orpheus & Eurydice.
In: Heartbeat Literary Journal (2013), 4, p. 13.