Publications

Selections from my recent work, along with a few old things:

• "Mohism and Self-Interest," Journal of Chinese Philosophy 35.3 (2008).

• "Psychological Emptiness in the Zhuangzi," Asian Philosophy 18.2 (2008).

• "More Mohist Marginalia: A Reply to Makeham on Later Mohist Canon and Explanation B 67," Journal for Chinese Philosophy and Culture 2 (2007), 227-59.
• "The Mohist School," in the Routledge History of Chinese Philosophy, Bo Mou, ed., forthcoming.

• "Major Rival Schools: Mohism and Legalism," in the Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy, Jay Garfield et al., eds., forthcoming.

• "The Mass Noun Hypothesis and Interpretive Methodology," Journal for Chinese Philosophy and Culture 1 (2006), 58–107.

• "Wu-wei, the Background, and Intentionality." In Bo Mou, ed., Searle's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement (Brill, 2008).

• "Weakness of Will, the Background, and Chinese Thought." Joint paper with Kai Yee Wong. In Bo Mou, ed., Searle's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement (Brill, 2008).

• "Language and Ontology in Early Chinese Thought," Philosophy East &West 57:4 (2007), 420-56.

• "On Wu-wei as a Unifying Metaphor," Philosophy East and West 57:1 (2007), 97-106.

• "Zhuangzi, Xunzi, and the Paradoxical Nature of Education," Journal of Chinese Philosophy 33:4 (Dec 2006), 529-42.

• "The School of Names," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (October 2005).

• "Mohist Canons," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (September 2005).

• "Action and Agency in Early Chinese Thought." Presented at "Chinese Philosophy in Analytical Perspectives," September 16-17, 2005, National Cheng Chi University, Taipei.

• "Daoism and the Heterogeneity of Value." Presented at the 14th International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP) Conference, July 13-19, 2005, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

• Review of Two Roads to Wisdom?, Bo Mou, ed. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32:2 (June 2005), 353-58.

• "Tang Junyi on Mencian and Mohist Conceptions of Mind," Contemporary Confucians of the Chinese University, Cheng Chung Yi, ed., New Asia Academic Bulletin, Vol. 19 (October 2006): 203-33.

• 〈英美學界對於先秦思想的研究之若干里程碑〉，台灣國科會人文及社會科學發展處，國際中國哲學研究研習營，December 16–19, 2004.

• 〈陳漢生對先秦思想的詮釋進路〉，台灣國科會人文及社會科學發展處，國際中國哲學研究研習營，December 16–19, 2004.

• 〈中國哲學外文研究回顧與展望〉，台灣國科會人文中心中國哲學外文名著讀書會，December 15, 2004.

• "Meaning and Normativity in Brandom's Inferentialism." NCCU Philosophical Journal 12 (2004): 71-100. I argue that Brandom's attempt to ground semantics in an inferential pragmatics probably does not work.

• "Realism Reconsidered," presented at "Transmission and Innovation in Philosophy: Conference in Honor of Professor Cheng-hung Lin on his Retirement," Taipei, Taiwan, December 13, 2003.

• 《科技論文英語寫作》上冊，台北：聯寶書局 (2003)。This is the second, revised edition of one of my English textbooks. A forthcoming revised edition will combine both volumes into one book.

• "Mohism," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (October 2002).

• "Introduction: Later Mohist Logic, Ethics, and Science After 25 Years," in the reprint edition of A. C. Graham, Later Mohist Logic, Ethics, and Science (Chinese University Press, 2003). This is a critical appraisal of the most important edition of the later Mohist texts, a pivotal source in the development of Chinese philosophy of language and epistemology. A .pdf file of the article is available here. (Note: This work is copyright © 2003. You may download one copy for your own use, but you may not distribute it or copy it for others.)

• "Internalizing the Space of Reasons," Symposium on Neo-Pragmatism, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, August 26, 2001.

• "Distinction-Drawing, Semantics, and Logic in Early Chinese Thought," Annual Conference, Australian Society for Asian and Comparative Thought, University of Hong Kong, July 12, 2001.

• 〈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》。第 53 期， 2000 ，頁 101-36 。

• Similarity and Standards: Language, Cognition, and Action in Chinese and Western Thought. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hong Kong, 1999.

• "Thematic Relationships in Mozi 8-13," presented at Warring States Working Group 10 (April 1998) and "Doctrinal Developments in the Mozi Jian Ai Triad," presented at Warring States Working Group 9 (October 1997). Both conferences were held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. These two short papers have supposedly been forthcoming in Warring States Working Papers since 1998, but I'm not sure they will ever appear. I think they make minor but solid contributions to pre-Han textual studies, so I hope they attract a few readers here. I've also posted a brief research note arguing against A. C. Graham's hypothesis that Mozi Book 17 is a fragment of Book 26.

• Review of Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi, Paul Kjellberg and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds. Ethics 108:4 (July 1998), 799-802.

• Review of Classifying the Zhuangzi Chapters, by Liu Xiaogan 劉笑敢. Asian Philosophy 7:2 (July 1997), 155-59.

• 〈信念、真理與社會實踐〉，《思與言》。第 33 期， 1995 ，頁 1-25 。