Marcus Teo

Marcus TL Teo hails from Singapore, where he is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE) in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He is supervised by Professors Julian Savulescu and Roger Crisp. He holds a BA (Hons) in Philosophy with Highest Distinction from Nanyang Technological University, where he focused on applied ethics and moral psychology. Prior to this, he completed his Diploma in Psychology Studies in Temasek Polytechnic.

His interdisciplinary training has led him to clinch the Highly Commended Award in the Psychology category in the 2019 Global Undergraduate Awards for his work in reconciling Moral Sentimentalism and Moral Rationalism. He is also a recipient of the 2016/2017 Mdm Wong-Mah Jia Lan Confucian Scholarship for his contributions in Confucian moral psychology. As a second-year PhD Candidate, Marcus has published three sole-authored works in Bioethics and the Journal of Medical Ethics, with more in different stages of review.

Marcus’s research interests range widely in applied and normative ethics, specifically in reproductive ethics, death ethics, and psychiatric ethics. For his thesis project, Marcus is working on a moderate theory of antinatalism. Aside, he is also interested in the subjects of psychiatric medical assistance in dying and the clinical ethical upshots of depressive realism. 

He is also a member of the CBmE’s Healthcare Ethics, Law and Professionalism (HeLP) team, developing and delivering undergraduate medical ethics classes.