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You've reached the website of Chris Fraser, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. That's CUHK at the bottom of the page, as seen from across Tolo Harbour, in Ma On Shan.

歡迎瀏覽方克濤教授的網頁。我是香港中文大學哲學系的助理教授。

My area of specialization is classical Chinese philosophy, but I also teach topics in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, including epistemology, philosophy of mind, and a bit of ethics and political theory. I am interested in all of these areas as they bear on Chinese thought.

This site introduces some of my current research, and it contains links to on-line versions of selected papers and work in progress. (The site is designed to be viewed in Firefox.)

The most recent addition here is a link to the manuscript of my "Language and Ontology in Early Chinese Thought," forthcoming in Philosophy East & West 57:4 (2007). The paper critiques Chad Hansen's mass noun hypothesis while presenting independent evidence that early Chinese thinkers probably applied a mereological ontology.

I've also posted a forthcoming article on Mohist Canon B67. The paper presents a new interpretation of this canon while evaluating previous interpretations by A. C. Graham, Chad Hansen, and John Makeham.

Another forthcoming piece is my review of Ted Slingerland's Effortless Action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China (Philosophy East & West 57:1).

I am currently engaged in a Hong Kong government-supported research project that aims to prepare a new edition of the Later Mohist Canons and Explanations. Links to a full explanation of the project along with our work in progress will be included here eventually.

Comments are welcome. You can reach me at cjfraser@cuhk.edu.hk.