Sin Yee Chan is a contemporary philosopher specializing in Chinese and comparative philosophy, with particular expertise in classical Confucian ethics. She has contributed significantly to scholarship on the moral psychology of early Confucian thinkers, especially the Mencius-Xunzi debate on human nature.
Analyzed competing interpretations of Mencius's water-metaphor view of human nature
Contributed to the scholarly debate on Xunzi's critique of Mencian moral psychology
Published work bridging classical Chinese philosophy and contemporary analytic ethics
Examined the conceptual foundations of Confucian accounts of moral cultivation