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1Heart-Fasting, Forgetting, and Using the Heart Like a Mirror: Applied Emptiness in the ZhuangziIn JeeLoo Liu & Douglas L. Berger (eds.), Nothingness in Asian Philosophy, Routledge. 2014.
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1Truth in Pre-Han ThoughtIn Yiu-Ming Fung (ed.), Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy of Logic, Springer. 2020.
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5Rationalism 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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18Late 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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28Truth and the way in XúnzǐAsian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1): 1-17. 2023.This essay argues that the third-century BC Ruist “masters” text Xúnzǐ presents a sophisticated approach to semantics and epistemology in which a concern with truth is at best secondary, not central. Xúnzǐ’s primary concern is with identifying and applying the apt dào (way), which for him is a more fundamental concept that underwrites and explains truth claims. Dào refers to a way or path of personal and social conduct, covering prudential, esthetic, ethical, and political concerns. Xúnzǐ is pri…Read more
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36Zhuangzi and ParticularismJournal of Chinese Philosophy 49 (4): 342-357. 2022.The Zhuangzi rejects the use of invariant general norms to guide action, instead stressing the importance of contextual factors in determining the apt course to take in particular situations. This stance might seem to present a variety of moral particularism, the view that general norms play no fundamental role in moral thought and judgment. I argue against interpreting the Zhuangzi as committed to particularism and thus denying that dao rests on, is shaped by, or comprises general patterns or n…Read more
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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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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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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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The Ethics of the Mohist ‘Dialogues’In Carine Defoort & Nicolas Standaert (eds.), The Mozi as an Evolving Text: Different Voices in Early Chinese Thought, Brill. 2013.
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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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Epistemic Competence and Agency in Sosa and XunziIn Yong Huang (ed.), Ernest Sosa encountering Chinese philosophy: a cross-cultural approach to virtue epistemology, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 39-50. 2022.
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40Representation in Early Chinese Philosophy of LanguagePhilosophy East and West 71 (1): 57-78. 2021.ARRAY
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17Realism 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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The Mass Noun Hypothesis and Interpretive MethodologyJournal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture 1. 2006.
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Paradoxes in the School of NamesIn Yiu-Ming Fung (ed.), Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy of Logic, Springer. 2020.
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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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1Zhuangzi and the Heterogeneity of Value.In Livia Kohn (ed.), New Visions of the Zhuangzi, Three Pines Press. 2015.
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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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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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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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1A Daoist Critique of MoralityIn Justin Tiwald (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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Metaphysics and Agency in Guo Xiang's Commentary on the ZhuangziIn David Chai (ed.), Dao Companion to Xuanxue, . forthcoming.
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