Chris Fraser 方克濤

A long-term research interest of mine is to bring classical Chinese epistemology into dialogue with contemporary epistemology. I’ve just posted a preprint of one contribution to this project, an extensively revised version of my paper “Knowledge and Error in Early Chinese Thought.” The paper is forthcoming in Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy.

The editing work on our forthcoming anthology, Ethics in Early China, is about done. The volume is edited by myself, Dan Robins, and Timothy O’Leary and will be published by HKU Press. A table of contents is available here.

Update (May 8, 2010): A pdf preprint of the Introduction is available here.

I’ve posted another older preprint, this time of a paper from 2008: “Psychological Emptiness in the Zhuangzi,” Asian Philosophy 18.1 (2008), 123-47.

I’ve posted a preprint of a paper of mine from 2006: “Zhuangzi, Xunzi, and the Paradoxical Nature of Education.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 33.4 (2006): 529–42. I’ll be gradually adding online versions of more old papers here.

Just this week I learned that this site is not accessible from mainland China because the Great Firewall of China (防火長城) blocks all WordPress sites, along with those of several other weblog providers. Thanks to Manyul Im, however, I also learned that there is an easy way to “fān qiáng” 翻墙, or topple the Great Firewall. Read more…

Manyul Im has transformed his very successful Chinese Philosophy Blog into a new group blog devoted to Chinese and comparative philosophy. The new blog is called “Warp, Weft, and Way.” (Manyul’s old blog will remain online as an archive.) As one of the administrators of the new blog, I encourage everyone — especially students — to visit and to comment on posts, if you have observations or arguments to offer or questions to raise.

I’ve added to the site a revised version of a paper called “Action and Agency in Early Chinese Thought,” originally written for a conference in 2005.

I’ve posted an extensively revised preprint of my essay “Mohism and Motivation,” first posted here in November 2008.

Update (14 Mar 2010): A slightly revised final version has now been posted.

A number of HKU philosophy students seem to be visiting this site, so I thought I’d put up a post to say “Hello.” I will be serving as undergraduate coordinator and chief examiner in the Department of Philosophy for the coming academic year. I look forward to meeting many of you and working closely with you. See you in September!

Addendum: If you are planning on majoring in philosophy, please have a look at the guidelines on this page.

I’ve just published a revised version of my Stanford Encyclopedia article on Mohism. Most of the revisions are minor, however. They include a smattering of substantive changes and rectification of some copy-editing errors that had crept in.