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17Ethics in Early China: An Anthology (edited book)HKU Press. 2011.This book aims to rectify this imbalance by including essays on Daoism and Confucianism, early Chinese moral psychology including widely neglected views of the Mohists and newly reconstructed accounts of the "embodied virtue" tradition, ...
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16Late Classical Chinese ThoughtOxford University Press. 2023.Chris Fraser presents a rich and broad-ranging study of the culminating period of classical Chinese philosophy, the third century BC. He offers novel and informative perspectives on Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism, and other movements in early Chinese thought while also delving into neglected texts such as the Guanzi, Lu's Annals, and the Zhuangzi 'outer' chapters, restoring them to their prominent place in the history of philosophy. Fraser organizes the history of Chinese thought topical…Read more
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15Realism about Kinds in Later MohismDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 20 (1): 93-114. 2021.In a recent article in this journal, Daniel Stephens argues against Chad Hansen’s and Chris Fraser’s interpretations of the later Mohists as realists about the ontology of kinds, contending that the Mohist stance is better explained as conventionalist. This essay defends a realist interpretation of later Mohism that I call “similarity realism,” the view that human-independent reality fixes the similarities that constitute kinds and thus determines what kinds exist and what their members are. I s…Read more
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3Rationalism and Anti-Rationalism in Later Mohism and the ZhuāngzǐIn Carine Defoort & Roger T. Ames (eds.), Having a Word with Angus Graham: At Twenty-Five Years Into His Immortality, Suny Series in Chinese Philoso. pp. 251-274. 2018.
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1The Ferryman: Forget the Deeps and Row!In Karyn Lai & Wai Wai Chiu (eds.), Skill and Mastery Philosophical Stories from the Zhuangzi, Rowman and Littlefield International. 2019.
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1Zhuangzi and the Heterogeneity of Value.In Livia Kohn (ed.), New Visions of the Zhuangzi, Three Pines Press. 2015.
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1Wu-wei, the background, and intentionalityIn Michael Krausz (ed.), Searle's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement, Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 27--63. 2008.John Searle’s “thesis of the Background” is an attempt to articulate the role of nonintentional capacities---know-how, skills, and abilities---in constituting intentional phenomena. This essay applies Searle’s notion of the Background to shed light on the Daoist notion of w’u-w’ei---“non-action” or non-intentional action---and to help clarify the sort of activity that might originally have inspired the w’u-w’ei ideal. I draw on Searle’s work and the original Chinese sources to develop a defensib…Read more
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1Is Mozi 17 a Fragment of Mozi 26?Warring States Papers. 2010., originally was not an independent chapter in the Fei Gong (Condemning Aggression) series, but rather part of the ending of Mozi 26, the first of the Tian Zhi ¤Ñ§Ó (Heaven’s Intention) chapters. I will argue that we have no reason to..
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1A Daoist Critique of MoralityIn Justin Tiwald (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy. forthcoming.
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Action and Agency in Early Chinese ThoughtJournal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture 5. 2009.In this lecture, I present a sketch of how action and agency are conceived of in pre-Qín 先秦, or classical, Chinese thought, along the way drawing some contrasts with familiar Western conceptions of action. I will also comment briefly on how the ideas I present might affect our interpretation of early Chinese texts and how they might help us to relate early Chinese thought to contemporary action theory and ethics.
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Identifying Upward: Political Epistemology in an Early Chinese Political TheoryIn Michael Hannon & Jeroen de Ridder (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology, Routledge. 2021.
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Mohism and MotivationIn Chris Fraser, Dan Robins & Timothy O’Leary (eds.), Ethics in Early China, . 2011.
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More Mohist Marginalia: A Reply to Makeham on Later Mohist Canon and Explanation B 67Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture 2. 2007.This note responds to an interpretation of Mohist Canon and Explanation B 671 published by John Makeham some years ago. Makeham’s interpretation makes significant contributions to our understanding of this passage, especially in calling attention to problems with two influential previous interpretations, those of A. C. Graham and Chad Hansen.3 Yet his reading presents difficulties of its own, which I will attempt to rectify here.
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Rationalism and Anti-rationalism in Later Mohism and the ZhuangziIn Carine Defoort & Roger T. Ames (eds.), Having a Word with Angus Graham: At Twenty-Five Years Into His Immortality, Suny Series in Chinese Philoso. 2018.
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A Path with No End: Skill and Ethics in ZhuangziIn Tom P. S. Angier & Lisa Ann Raphals (eds.), Skill in Ancient Ethics: The Legacy of China, Greece and Rome, Bloomsbury Academic. 2021.
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The Mohist Conception of RealityIn Chenyang Li & Franklin Perkins (eds.), Chinese Metaphysics and its Problems, Cambridge University Press. 2015.
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Landscape, Travel, and a Daoist View of the ‘Cosmic Question’In Hans-Georg Moeller & Andrew Whitehead (eds.), Landscape and Travelling East and West: A Philosophical Journey, Bloomsbury Academic. 2014.
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Language and Logic in the XunziIn Eric L. Hutton (ed.), Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Xunzi, Springer. 2016.
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The Ferryman : Forget the deeps and row!In Karyn Lai & Wai Wai Chiu (eds.), Skill and Mastery Philosophical Stories from the Zhuangzi, Rowman and Littlefield International. 2019.
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