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3Apolipoprotein E4 is the major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. ApoE4 has sex-dependent effects, whereby the risk of developing AD is higher in apoE4-expressing females than males. However, the mechanism underlying the sex difference, in relation to apoE4, is unknown. Previous findings indicate that apoE4 causes age-dependent impairments of hilar GABAergic interneurons in female mice, leading to learning and memory deficits. Here, we investigate whether the detrimental effects of apo…Read more
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1Apolipoprotein E4 is the leading genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, and it has a gene dose-dependent effect on the risk and age of onset of AD. Although apoE4 is primarily produced by astrocytes in the brain, neurons can also produce apoE4 under stress conditions. ApoE4 is known to inhibit neurite outgrowth and spine development in vitro and in vivo, but the potential influence of apoE4's cellular source on dendritic arborization and spine development has not yet been investigated. In …Read more
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6© 2016 American Chemical Society.Layered transition metal chalcogenides with large spin orbit coupling have recently sparked much interest due to their potential applications for electronic, optoelectronic, spintronics, and valleytronics. However, most current understanding of the electronic structure near band valleys in momentum space is based on either theoretical investigations or optical measurements, leaving the detailed band structure elusive. For example, the exact position of the conduc…Read more
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24Background: Pulsed dye laser is the gold standard for treatment of port-wine stain birthmarks but multiple treatments are required and complete resolution is often not achieved. Posttreatment vessel recurrence is thought to be a factor that limits efficacy of PDL treatment of PWS. Imiquimod 5% cream is an immunomodulator with antiangiogenic effects. Objective: We sought to determine if application of imiquimod 5% cream after PDL improves treatment outcome. Methods: Healthy individuals with PWS w…Read more
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Background and Objective: During laser therapy of port wine stain birthmarks, regions of perfusionmay persist. We hypothesize that such regions are not readily observable even when laser surgery is performed by highly experienced clinicians. The objective of this study was to use objective feedback to assess the acute vascular response to laser therapy. Study Design/Materials and Methods: A clinic-friendly laser speckle imaging instrument was developed to provide the clinician with real-time ima…Read more
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1ConfucianismIn Michael Hemmingsen (ed.), Ethical Theory in Global Perspective, Suny Press. pp. 43-58. 2024.An accessible introduction to Confucian moral philosophy.
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9Why be moral?: learning from the neo-Confucian Cheng BrothersState University of New York Press. 2014.Explores the resources for contemporary ethics found in the work of the Cheng brothers, canonical neo-Confucian philosophers. Yong Huang presents a new way of doing comparative philosophy as he demonstrates the resources for contemporary ethics offered by the Cheng brothers, Cheng Hao (10321085) and Cheng Yi (10331107), canonical neo-Confucian philosophers. Huang departs from the standard method of Chinese/Western comparison, which tends to interest those already interested in Chinese philosop…Read more
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10Justice as a Personal Virtue and Justice as an Institutional Virtue: Mencius’s Confucian Virtue PoliticsYearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 4 (1): 277-294. 2020.It has been widely observed that virtue ethics, regarded as an ethics of the ancient, in contrast to deontology and consequentialism, seen as an ethics of the modern (Larmore 1996: 19–23), is experiencing an impressive revival and is becoming a strong rival to utilitarianism and deontology in the English-speaking world in the last a few decades. Despite this, it has been perceived as having an obvious weakness in comparison with its two major rivals. While both utilitarianism and deontology can …Read more
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10New ConfucianismIn Paul Rakita Goldin (ed.), A Concise Companion to Confucius, John Wiley & Sons. 2017.The development of Confucianism has most frequently been divided into three periods: the classical period from Pre‐Qin to Han dynasty, the neo‐Confucian period in (Tang) Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and contemporary new Confucianism in the 20th and 21st centuries. This chapter is devoted to the third period. If neo‐Confucianism can be seen as a Confucian response to challenges posed by Buddhism, contemporary new Confucianism is a Confucian response to the challenge posed by modern Weste…Read more
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3Feng Qi's Ameliorism: Between Relativism and AbsolutismIn Chung-Ying Cheng & Nicholas Bunnin (eds.), Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2002.This chapter contains section titled: Wisdom: Theory of Dialectical Logic: Theory Transformed into Method Freedom: Theory Transformed into Virtue.
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Morality, Human Nature, and Metaphysics: Rorty Responds to Confucian Critics (edited book)Open Court Press. 2008.
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19Conductance of bilayer graphene nanoribbons with different widthsPhilosophical Magazine 90 (23): 3177-3187. 2010.
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12Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi’s Appropriations of the MenciusIn Yang Xiao & Kim-Chong Chong (eds.), Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius, Springer. pp. 139-158. 2023.In this chapter, we examine the neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers’ Mencian hermeneutics in two senses. On the one hand, we show that they adopt a Mencian hermeneutics in their approach to Confucian classics, which gives the priority to the fundamental principles underlining a classic over its literal meaning. On the other hand, to illustrate this Mencius hermeneutics, we focus on Cheng Brothers’ interpretations of the Mencius. Thus, in contrast to the common criticism of Cheng Brothers’ hermeneutics …Read more
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23What’s Wrong with Toleration? The Zhuangzian Respect as an AlternativeJournal of Chinese Philosophy 50 (1): 28-43. 2023.Toleration has been almost universally regarded as an indispensable virtue one ought to have when encountering people of races, religions, languages, cultures, genders, and sexual orientations different from one’s own. This is unfortunate, however, because toleration includes objection as one of its necessary components: to tolerate an object means to have objection to it though without interfering with it. However, it is wrong to think we have, and it is wrong for us to have, objection to peopl…Read more
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5Ernest Sosa encountering Chinese philosophy: a cross-cultural approach to virtue epistemology (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2022.A major figure in the Anglo-American analytic tradition, Ernest Sosa is a pioneer of contemporary virtue epistemology. Engaging with his important work for the first time, a team of renowned scholars of Chinese philosophy bring Western analytic epistemology into dialogue with themes and issues in the history of the Chinese tradition in order to reveal multiple points of connection. Drawing on thinkers and texts from Confucianism, Daoism and Chinese Buddhism, chapters explore issues central to vi…Read more
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23Tu Wei-ming's Tizhi and the Confucian Contribution to Contemporary EpistemologyPhilosophy East and West 72 (3): 739-757. 2022.Abstract:Tu develops his idea of tizhi 体知 primarily or at least initially to characterize the Neo-Confucian idea of knowledge of/as virtue in contrast to knowledge from hearing and seeing. Instead of depending upon our sense organs' perceptions of external things and events, it relies upon the comprehension of our xin; instead of purely intellectual understanding of the mind aspect of xin, it is more due to the affective experiences of the heart aspect of xin; and instead of merely a piece of kn…Read more
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25Patient Moral Relativism in the Zhuangzi Defended: A Reply to Jianping HuPhilosophy East and West 72 (2): 472-482. 2022.I have been developing an ethics that I initially identified in the text of the Zhuangzi and which I have characterized in different ways under different names. First, in contrast to the moral Golden Rule, which asks us to do unto others as we would like to have done unto us, I call it the moral Copper Rule: do unto others as they would like to have done unto them. Second, in contrast to the ethics of commonality, I call it ethics of difference. Ethics of Commonality is a general term I use to i…Read more
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13Confucian Political Philosophy: Dialogues on the State of the Field (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2021.This book debates the values and ideals of Confucian politics—harmony, virtue, freedom, justice, order—and what these ideals mean for Confucian political philosophy today. The authors deliberate these eminent topics in five debates centering on recent innovative and influential publications in the field. Challenging and building on those works, the dialogues consider the roles of benevolence, family determination, public reason, distributive justice, and social stability in Confucian political p…Read more
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9Moral Relativism and Chinese Philosophy: David Wong and His Critics (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2014._A wide ranging consideration of the work of contemporary ethicist David Wong._
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18Brahman and Dao: Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.Although there are various studies comparing Greek and Indian philosophy and religion, and Chinese and Western philosophy and religion, Brahman and Dao: Comparatives Studies in Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion is a first of its kind that brings together Indian and Chinese philosophies and religions. Brahman and Dao helps close the gap on a much needed examination on the rich history of Buddhist transmission to China, and the many generations of Indian Buddhist missionaries to China and…Read more
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32Why Confucian Ethics is a Virtue Ethics, Virtue Ethics is Not a Bad Thing, and Neville Should Endorse ItJournal of Chinese Philosophy 47 (3-4): 283-294. 2020.This paper addresses one of the three main themes of Neville's The Goodness Is One, Its Manifestations Many: Whether Confucian ethics can be appropriately characterized as a virtue ethics. It first examines some unique features of virtues ethics, concluding that Confucian ethics may be plausibly regarded as a virtue ethics. Then it shows that virtue ethics is immune to the two diseases that Neville worries about: subjectivism and individualism. Finally, it argues that what Neville regards as sal…Read more
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30Justice as a Personal Virtue and Justice as an Institutional Virtue: Mencius’s Confucian Virtue PoliticsYearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 2019 (4): 277-294. 2019.It has been widely observed that virtue ethics, regarded as an ethics of the ancient, in contrast to deontology and consequentialism, seen as an ethics of the modern (Larmore 1996: 19–23), is experiencing an impressive revival and is becoming a strong rival to utilitarianism and deontology in the English-speaking world in the last a few decades. Despite this, it has been perceived as having an obvious weakness in comparison with its two major rivals. While both utilitarianism and deontology can …Read more
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33Dao Companion to Zhu Xi’s Philosophy (edited book)Springer. 2020.Zhu Xi has been commonly and justifiably recognized as the most influential philosopher of Neo-Confucianism, a revival of classical Confucianism in face of the challenges coming from Daoism and, more importantly, Buddhism. His place in the Confucian tradition is often and also very plausibly compared to that of Thomas Aquinas, slightly later, in the Christian tradition. This book presents the most comprehensive and updated study of this great philosopher. It situates Zhu Xi’s philosophy in the h…Read more
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23Bell's Model of Meritocracy for China: Two Confucian AmendmentsPhilosophy East and West 69 (2): 559-568. 2019.Daniel Bell's The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy is a significant contribution to contemporary political theory. I am very much in sympathy with his ideal of political meritocracy, although I would disagree with him on the degree to which it is realized or practiced in China today; for me, the reality is as distant from Bell's ideal of political meritocracy, if I understand it correctly, as it is from democracy. However, in the present comment, I will not exploit …Read more
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