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44Sex and Selfhood: What Feminist Philosophy Can Learn from Recent Ethnography in Ho Chi Minh CityJournal of International Women's Studies 14 (3): 31-41. 2013.This article explores the connection of class dynamics to the moral agency of sex workers and their clients. It revisits the analyses of several contemporary feminist theorists, placing these analyses in dialogue with a recent ethnographic study of the sex work industry in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In light of this comparative analysis, it is argued that accurate understanding and assessment of the moral agency of sex workers and their clients requires attunement to the complex and evolving cla…Read more
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46Experience as a Prelude to Disaster: American Philosophy and the Fear of DeathMortality 18 (1): 1-16. 2013.By focusing on the thought of Classical American philosophers, this article addresses the existential problem of the fear of death. Drawing on the experiences and philosophies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, and Jane Addams as a theoretical framework, a prescriptive claim regarding how to confront human mortality is advanced. It is suggested that embracing the notion of experience as a prelude to the disaster of death can be – despite appearances to the contrary – a useful approach to nav…Read more
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53Loyalty and the art of wise living: The influence of Plato on the moral philosophy of Josiah RoyceSouthern Journal of Philosophy 48 (4): 353-370. 2010.This essay investigates Josiah Royce's sustained interest in the Platonic dialogues by focusing not only on Royce's explicit commentary on Socrates and Plato but also on significant philosophical connections between Royce and these figures. In section 1, we explain the nature of loyalty according to Royce and how Socratic loyalty exemplifies Royce's ideas in both evident and surprising ways. In section 2, we claim that Royce's treatment of “lost causes” (particularly truth as a lost cause) relat…Read more
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86Perplexities of filiality: Confucius and Jane addams on the private/public distinctionAsian Philosophy 18 (2). 2008.This article compares the ways in which the classic Western philosophical division between the private and public spheres is challenged by an apparently disparate pair of thinkers—Confucius and Jane Addams. It is argued that insofar as the public and private distinction is that between the sphere of the family and that outside of the family, Confucius and Addams offer ways of rethinking that distinction. While Confucius endorses a porous relation between these realms, Addams advocates a relation…Read more
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79Grief and Mourning in Confucius’s AnalectsJournal of Chinese Philosophy 36 (2): 348-358. 2009.This article adds to previous accounts in the scholarship on Confucius's treatments of grief, mourning, death, and dying. Valuing Confucius’s remark that one must understand life to understand death, it is argued that through Confucius’s example in the Analects, we are guided in our quest for such understanding.
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80Loyalty to loyalty: Josiah Royce and the genuine moral lifeFordham University Press. 2012.Introduction : the treachery and ambivalence of loyalty -- Loyalty, justice, virtue : contemporary debates -- The nature of loyalty -- Loyalty to loyalty -- Learning loyalty -- Loyalty and community -- Disloyalty -- Loyalty, disaster, business : contemporary applications -- Conclusion : the need for loyalty.
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1Tragic Possibility, Tragic Ambiguity: William James and Simone de Beauvoir on Freedom and MoralityExistential Analysis 24 (1): 117-129. 2013.This paper offers a comparative account of the relationship between freedom and morality in the thought of William James and Simone de Beauvoir. By combining elements of the thought of each, a compelling--albeit tragic--notion of the relationship between freedom and morality is derived.
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27Teaching and Learning Guide for: Confucianism and American PragmatismPhilosophy Compass 10 (6): 420-423. 2015.
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Areas of Specialization
Asian Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |
Areas of Interest
Asian Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |