My interests in mind, language, and the Zhuangzi have led me to devote much attention to the philosophy of the Mozi, as understanding Mohism is a prerequisite for understanding many of the background assumptions of early Chinese thought. As a result, Mohism itself has ended up becoming one of my major research areas. My publications in this area include:
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The Mozi and Just War Theory in Pre-Han Thought. Journal of Chinese Military History 5.2 (2016), 135–175.
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Rationalism and Anti-rationalism in Later Mohism and Zhuangzi. Forthcoming in Having a Word with Angus Graham: On the First Quarter Century of his Immortality, Roger Ames and Carine Defoort, eds.
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The Mohist Conception of Reality. In Chinese Metaphysics and its Problems, ed. Chenyang Li and Franklin Perkins. Cambridge University Press, 2015, 69–84.
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Truth in Mohist Dialectics. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 39.3 (2012): 351–368.
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The Philosophy of the Mozi: The First Consequentialists. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
- Mohism and Motivation. In C. Fraser, D. Robins, and T. O’Leary, eds., Ethics in Early China (HKU Press, 2011), 73–90.
- The Ethics of the Mohist “Dialogues.” In The Mozi as an Evolving Text: Different Voices in Early Chinese Thought, Carine Defoort and Nicolas Standaert, eds., 175–204. Brill: 2013.
- Mohism and Self-Interest. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 35.3 (2008): 437–54.
- More Mohist Marginalia: A Reply to Makeham on Later Mohist Canon and Explanation B 67. Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture 2 (2007): 227–59.
- Mohist Canons, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (revised May 2009).
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Tang Junyi on Mencian and Mohist Conceptions of Mind. In Contemporary Confucians of the Chinese University, Cheng Chung Yi, ed. New Asia Academic Bulletin 19 (October 2006): 203–33.
- Introduction: Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science After 25 Years. From the reprint edition of A. C. Graham, Later Mohist Logic, Ethics, and Science (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2003).
- Mohism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (revised 2015).
- Three Textual Studies of the Mozi (1997–98).
Keywords: Mozi, Mohist philosophy, Mohist ethics, Mohist moral psychology, 墨子, 墨家哲學, 墨家心性論