Talks

Recent unpublished seminar and conference talks:

Effable and Ineffable in Early Chinese Discourse on Dao. Presented at Varieties of Ineffability in Ancient Philosophy, online conference, Sept 18-21, 2023.

Can Something Come from Nothing? Existence and Nonexistence in Early and Medieval Daoism. Presented at 2nd Pan-American Symposium on the History of Logic, UCLA, June 20-23, 2023.

“Standards cannot stand on their own”: Xúnzǐ and Ruist discourse on moral character and political institutions. Keynote talk for International Society for Chinese Philosophy, UC Riverside, June 22, 2023.

How Dao and De Can Shape a Plausible Zhuangist Ethics. Presented at "Dialogues on the States of the Field: Ethics in the Zhuangzi," Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 16-17, 2023.

Contextualizing the Zhuangzi "Heaven" Pian. Presented at "2023 Zhuangzi beyond the Inner Chapters in Seoul," Institute of Korean Philosophy and Culture, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, March 14-16, 2023.