- Work in Progress
- Books
- Recent Articles
- Language and Logic in Chinese Thought
- Mohist Dialectics
- Epistemology in Chinese Thought
- Daoism
- Mohism
- Confucianism
- Miscellaneous
Work in Progress
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Zhuangzi and Agency. Coauthored with Pengbo Liu.
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“荀子對法家的批判”,王尚譯 《紀念林正弘老師學術論文集》
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“荀子思想中心靈與世界的關係”,崔洺睿译,《中山大学学报》
- Daoism: Seven Cues for Life.
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Persons and Standards: Debates over the Role of "Law" in Chinese Thought
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Zhuangzi and Ethics.
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Language, Mind, and World in Early Chinese Thought.
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Wu-wei: Fitting in with Things.
Books
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Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings, A New Translation. Oxford University Press, November 2024.
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Zhuangzi: Ways of Wandering the Way. Oxford University Press, June 2024.
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Late Classical Chinese Thought. Oxford University Press, 2023. 中译本:《战国晚期思想》,聂韬、王周璐、唐杨译,三联出版社。
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The Essential Mozi: Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings. Oxford University Press, 2020. See too the digital supplement on the Mohist Dialectics, available for download here. A preprint of selections from the Mohist "Dialogues" is available here.
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The Philosophy of the Mozi: The First Consequentialists. Columbia University Press, 2016. 中译本:《〈墨子〉的哲学》,武云译,东方出版中心。
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Ethics in Early China: An Anthology. C. Fraser, D. Robins, and T. O'Leary, eds. HKU Press, 2011.
Recent Articles
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Dai Zhen. Coauthored with Frank YC Chong. In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (forthcoming).
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The Nature and Force of Normativity in Dai Zhen. In Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Dai Zhen, Zemian Zheng, ed. Springer (forthcoming).
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How Dao and De Can Shape a Plausible Zhuangist Ethics. In Ethics in the Zhuangzi, Xiangnong Hu and Yong Huang, eds. Springer (2024), 193-207.
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Truth and the Way in Xunzi. Asian Journal of Philosophy 2, 12 (2023).
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Names and Speech in Warring States Thought. In Routledge Companion to Chinese Philosophy, B. Ziporyn and S. Walker, eds.
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Zhuangzi and Particularism. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 49.4 (2022), 342–57. 中译版:“庄子与特殊主義”,章含译,《现代儒学》。
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Deviations from the Way, Failures of Virtue: Emotions in Early Daoist Thought. In In the mind, in the body, and in the world: Emotions in early China and ancient Greece, Douglas Cairns and Curie Virag, eds. Oxford University Press, 2024.
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Epistemic Competence and Agency in Sosa and Xunzi. In Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy, Yong Huang, ed. (Bloomsbury, 2022).
Language and Logic in Chinese Thought
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Truth and the Way in Xunzi. Asian Journal of Philosophy 2, 12 (2023).
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Names and Speech in Warring States Thought. In Routledge Companion to Chinese Philosophy, B. Ziporyn and S. Walker, eds.
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Representation in Early Chinese Philosophy of Language. Forthcoming in Philosophy East & West 71.1 (2021), 57–78.
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Realism about Kinds in Later Mohism. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 20 (2021), 93–114.
- Paradoxes in the School of Names. In Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy of Logic, Fung Yiu-Ming, ed. (Dordrecht: Springer, 2020), 285-307.
- Truth in Pre-Han Thought. In Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy of Logic, Fung Yiu-Ming, ed. (Dordrecht: Springer, 2020), 113–127.
- Rationalism and Anti-rationalism in Later Mohism and the Zhuangzi. In Having a Word with Angus Graham, Carine Defoort and Roger T. Ames, eds. (Albany: SUNY Press, 2018), 251–274.
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Language and Logic in the Xunzi. In Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Xunzi, Eric Hutton, ed. (Dordrecht: Springer, 2016), 291–321.
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Distinctions, Judgment, and Reasoning in Classical Chinese Thought. History and Philosophy of Logic 34.1 (2013), 1–24.
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Truth in Mohist Dialectics. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 39.3 (2012): 351–368.
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Language and Ontology in Early Chinese Thought. Philosophy East & West 57.4 (2007): 420–56.
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Action and Agency in Early Chinese Thought. Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture 5 (2009): 217–39.
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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.
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The Mass Noun Hypothesis and Interpretive Methodology. Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture 1 (2006): 58–107.
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The School of Names. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2005; updated 2020).
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Mohist Canons. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2005; updated 2020).
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Mohism. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2002; updated 2020)
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Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science After 25 Years. Introduction, reprint edition of A. C. Graham, Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science (Chinese University Press, 2003).
Mohist Dialectics
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The Later Mohist Dialectics (digital supplement to The Essential Mozi).
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Realism about Kinds in Later Mohism. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 20 (2021), 93–114.
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Rationalism and Anti-rationalism in Later Mohism and the Zhuangzi. In Having a Word with Angus Graham, Carine Defoort and Roger T. Ames, eds. (Albany: SUNY Press, 2018), 251–274.
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Distinctions, Judgment, and Reasoning in Classical Chinese Thought. History and Philosophy of Logic 34.1 (2013), 1–24.
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Truth in Mohist Dialectics. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 39.3 (2012): 351–368.
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Language and Ontology in Early Chinese Thought. Philosophy East & West 57.4 (2007): 420–56.
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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.
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Mohist Canons. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2005; updated 2020).
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Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science After 25 Years. Introduction, reprint edition of A. C. Graham, Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science (Chinese University Press, 2003).
Epistemology in Chinese Thought
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Identifying Upward: Political Epistemology in an Early Chinese Political Theory. In The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology, J. de Ridder and M. Hannon, eds. (Routledge, 2021), 24–34.
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Epistemic Competence and Agency in Sosa and Xunzi. In Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy, Yong Huang, ed. (Bloomsbury, 2022).
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Knowledge and Error in Early Chinese Thought. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10.2 (2011): 127–48.
Daoism
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How Dao and De Can Shape a Plausible Zhuangist Ethics. In Ethics in the Zhuangzi, Xiangnong Hu and Yong Huang, eds. Springer (2024), 193–207.
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Zhuangzi and Particularism. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 49.4 (2022), 342–57.
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A Path with No End: Skill and Ethics in Zhuangzi. In Skill in Ancient Ethics: The Legacy of China, Greece, and Rome, Tom Angier and Lisa Raphals, eds. (Bloomsbury, 2021), 241–260.
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Deviations from the Way, Failures of Virtue: Emotions in Early Daoist Thought. In In the mind, in the body, and in the world: Emotions in early China and ancient Greece, Douglas Cairns and Curie Virag, eds. Oxford University Press, 2024.
- Metaphysics and Agency in Guo Xiang's Commentary on the Zhuangzi. In David Chai, ed., Dao Companion to Neo-Daoism (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2021), 343–66.
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Finding a Way Together: Interpersonal Ethics in Zhuangzi. In Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi, Kim-Chong Chong, ed. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature (forthcoming).
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A Daoist Critique of Morality. In Justin Tiwald, ed., Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Forget the Deeps and Row! In Skill and Mastery: Philosophical Stories from the Zhuangzi, K. Lai and W. Chiu, eds. (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019), 163–181.
- Rationalism and Anti-rationalism in Later Mohism and the Zhuangzi. In Having a Word with Angus Graham, Carine Defoort and Roger T. Ames, eds. (Albany: SUNY Press, 2018), 251–274.
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Zhuangzi and the Heterogeneity of Value. In New Visions of the Zhuangzi, Livia Kohn, ed. (Three Pines Press, 2015), 40–58.
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Wandering the Way: A Eudaimonistic Approach to the Zhuangzi. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 13.4 (2014), 541–565.
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Landscape, Travel, and a Daoist View of the 'Cosmic Question.' In Landscape and Travelling East and West: A Philosophical Journey. H. Moeller and A. Whitehead, eds. London: Bloomsbury Academic (2014), 211–223.
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Heart-Fasting, Forgetting, and Using the Heart Like a Mirror: Applied Emptiness in the Zhuangzi. In Nothingness in Asian Philosophy, J. Liu and D. Berger, eds. New York: Routledge (2014), 197–212.
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"Xunzi Versus Zhuangzi: Two Approaches to Death in Classical Chinese Thought." Frontiers of Philosophy in China 8.3 (2013), 410–427.
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The Limitations of Ritual Propriety: Ritual and Language in Xunzi and Zhuangzi. Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics 51:2 (2012): 257–282.
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Emotion and Agency in Zhuangzi. Asian Philosophy 21.1 (2011): 97–121.
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Skepticism and Value in the Zhuangzi. International Philosophical Quarterly 49.4 (2009): 439–57.
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Psychological Emptiness in the Zhuangzi. Asian Philosophy 18.2 (2008): 123–47.
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Wu-wei, the Background, and Intentionality. In Searle’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement, ed. Bo Mou, Leiden: Brill (2008): 63–92.
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Weakness of Will, the Background, and Chinese Thought. (With Kai Yee Wong.) In Searle’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy (2008): 313–33.
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Zhuangzi, Xunzi, and the Paradoxical Nature of Education. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 33.4 (2006): 529–42.
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Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi, ed. Paul Kjellberg and Philip J. Ivanhoe. Ethics 108.4 (1998): 799–802.
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Paradox and Disputation in Zhuangzi 2. Warring States Working Group Query 82 (1997). Published in Warring States Papers, Vol. 2 (2011): 151–153.
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Classifying the Zhuangzi Chapters, by Liu Xiaogan. Asian Philosophy 7.2 (1997): 155–59.
Mohism
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Identifying Upward: Political Epistemology in an Early Chinese Political Theory. In The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology, J. de Ridder and M. Hannon, eds. (Routledge, 2021), 24–34.
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The Essential Mozi: Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings. Oxford University Press, 2020. See too the digital supplement on the Mohist Dialectics, available for download here. A preprint of selections from the Mohist "Dialogues" is available here.
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Realism about Kinds in Later Mohism. Forthcoming in Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy.
- Rationalism and Anti-rationalism in Later Mohism and the Zhuangzi. In Having a Word with Angus Graham, Carine Defoort and Roger T. Ames, eds. (Albany: SUNY Press, 2018), 251–274.
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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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The Philosophy of the Mozi: The First Consequentialists. Columbia University Press, 2016.
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The Mohist Conception of Reality. In Chinese Metaphysics and its Problems, Chenyang Li and Franklin Perkins, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2015), 69–84.
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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. Leiden: Brill (2013), 175–204.
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Mozi. In International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette, et al. (Wiley, 2013).
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Truth in Mohist Dialectics. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 39.3 (2012): 351–368.
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Mohism and Motivation. In C. Fraser, D. Robins, and T. O'Leary, eds., Ethics in Early China (HKU Press, 2011), 83–103.
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Major Rival Schools: Mohism and Legalism. In Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy, ed. J. Garfield and W. Edelglass (Oxford, 2011), 58–67.
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Mohism and Self-Interest. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 35.3 (2008): 437–54.
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The Mohist School. In Routledge History of Chinese Philosophy, ed. Bo Mou. London: Routledge, 2008.
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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.
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Tang Junyi on Mencian and Mohist Conceptions of Mind. In Contemporary Confucians of the Chinese University, ed. Cheng Chung Yi. New Asia Academic Bulletin 19 (2006): 203–33.
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Mohist Canons. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2005, revised 2009, 2018).
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Mohism. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2002, revised 2009)
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Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science After 25 Years. Introduction, reprint edition of A. C. Graham, Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science (Chinese University Press, 2003).
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Thematic Relationships in MZ 8-10 and 11-13. Warring States Papers I (2010): 137–142. Originally presented at Warring States Working Group 10, University of Massachusetts, U.S.A., April 1998.
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Doctrinal Developments in the Mozi Jian Ai Triad. Warring States Working Papers (1998). Published as "Doctrinal Developments in MZ 14-16." Warring States Papers I (2010): 132–136.
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Is Mozi 17 a Fragment of Mozi 26? Warring States Working Group Query 95 (1997). Published as "Is MZ 17 a Fragment of MZ 26?" Warring States Papers I (2010): 122–125.
Confucianism
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Dai Zhen. Coauthored with Frank YC Chong. In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (forthcoming).
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The Nature and Force of Normativity in Dai Zhen. In Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Dai Zhen, Zemian Zheng, ed. Springer (forthcoming).
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Epistemic Competence and Agency in Sosa and Xunzi. Forthcoming in anthology on Ernest Sosa’s philosophy and Chinese thought, ed. Yong Huang.
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Language and Logic in the Xunzi. In Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Xunzi, Eric Hutton, ed. (Dordrecht: Springer, 2016), 291–321.
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Happiness in Classical Confucianism: Xunzi. Philosophical Topics 41.1 (2013), 53–79.
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"Xunzi Versus Zhuangzi: Two Approaches to Death in Classical Chinese Thought." Frontiers of Philosophy in China 8.3 (2013), 410–427.
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The Limitations of Ritual Propriety: Ritual and Language in Xunzi and Zhuangzi. Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics 51:2 (2012): 257–282.
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Knowledge and Error in Early Chinese Thought. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10.2 (2011): 127–48.
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Zhuangzi, Xunzi, and the Paradoxical Nature of Education. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 33.4 (2006): 529–42.
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Tang Junyi on Mencian and Mohist Conceptions of Mind. In Contemporary Confucians of the Chinese University, ed. Cheng Chung Yi. New Asia Academic Bulletin 19 (2006): 203–33.
Miscellaneous
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On Wu-Wei as a Unifying Metaphor. Philosophy East & West 57.1 (2007): 97–106.
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Five Questions on the History of Chinese Logic. In History of Logic in China: 5 Questions, F. Liu and J. Seligman, eds. New York: Automatic Press / VIP (2015).
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實在論再探 (Realism Reconsidered)。《分析的技藝——林正弘教授七十祝壽論文集》, 陳瑞麟主編 (台北:學富, 2009)。
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先秦思想中的行動觀。《哲學評論》7 (2009): 61–82。
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Two Roads to Wisdom?, ed. Bo Mou. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32.2 (2005): 353–58.
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Meaning and Normativity in Brandom’s Inferentialism. NCCU Philosophical Journal 12 (2004): 71–100.
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英美學界對於中國經典詮釋傳統之研究:回顧與展望。《臺大文史哲學報》 53 (2000): 101-36。
- 信念、真理與社會實踐。《思與言》 33 (1995): 1-25 。