Public Health Constitutionalism: The State’s Duty to the Right to Health (single-author monograph)
“The Politics of Misopedy: Hatred, The Rights of Child, and Policy Issues” (single-author research article)
“Compound Agency and Responsible AI: From Decision-Making to AI in Healthcare” (single-author research article)

Alvin Chen, 2025, “Public Health as a Constitutional Principle”, Public Health Ethics 18(2) https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phaf007
Alvin Chen, 2024, “The Liberalism of Fear and Public Health Ethics”, Public Health Ethics 17(1-2), 53-66
Alvin Chen, 2024, “Hobbes, Pufendorf, and the Fictional Theory of the State”, Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy 34(4), 1-43
Alvin Chen, 2023, “Historiography as Political Thought: Ancient Constitution, Oriental Despotism, and the HistoricalDisquisition of Ancient India”, New History 34(2), 119-178
Alvin Chen, 2019, “George Berkeley on Enlightenment and Commercial Society”, History of Political Thought XL(4), 676-698

Selected Conference Papers and Invited Lectures (since 2023)

“Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Moral Agents: Decision-Making, Responsibility, and AI in Medicine”, Academia Sinica
“Why Does the Government Have a Duty to Health?”, National Taiwan University
“Responsible AI and Epistemic Democracy”, The Fifth World Congress of Taiwan Studies
“Public Health and Constitutionalism”, The Fourth Conference on the Theory and Practice of Constitutional Law
“Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Moral Agents: The Problem of Accountability”, The Third International Conference on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Funded Research Projects

AI Ethics and Political Theory, Funded by Academia Sinica (Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences), 2025 – 2028
Political Emotions and Public Health Ethics in Pandemic Politics, Funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, 2022 – 2026
The History of Jurisprudence and Enlightenment Intellectual History, Funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, 2024-2027
Enlightenment Constitutionalism and the Teleology of the State, Funded by National Science and Technology Council, 2019-2023

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