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Addressing Online Gaming Toxicity from a Confucian PerspectiveJournal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture 38 131-152. 2022.Can Confucian ethics contribute to diagnosing the root causes of video games’ toxicity and formulating design requirements for redressing it? Contemporary Confucian studies on technology have not addressed these questions, although video games have become an important part of contemporary human life. This paper advances Confucian-inspired ethical studies on technologies by bringing attention to the moral dimension of this underexamined aspect of contemporary life. By focusing on League of Legend…Read more
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58A Confucian-Inspired Perspective on East Asia’s Future: Examining Social Cohesion and MeritocracyJournal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture 41 85-109. 2024.East Asia’s economy is leading the world into the new Asian century. While meritocratic practices in the educational and private sectors are often considered pivotal conditions for East Asia’s economic success, experts have pointed out that the path ahead requires new approaches to ensure social cohesion and stability, which depend on the quality of relations across social divides. These considerations raise multiple questions for philosophers: What forms of social meritocracy are necessary to s…Read more
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27Living Well Together Online: Digital Wellbeing from a Confucian PerspectiveJournal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2): 263-279. 2023.The impact of social media technologies (SMTs) on digital wellbeing has become an increasingly important puzzle for ethicists of technology. In this article, we explain why individualised theories of digital wellbeing (DWB) can only solve part of this puzzle. While an individualised conception of DWB is useful for understanding online self-regulation, we contend that we must seek greater understanding of how SMTs connect us. To build an account of this, we locate the conceptual resources for our…Read more
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39Political meritocracy and the troubles of Western democraciesPhilosophy and Social Criticism 46 (9): 1127-1145. 2020.Confucian meritocratic rule has been recently advocated on the basis of the economic performance of Western democracies and the political ignorance of their average voters. These arguments are grou...
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34An epistemic case for confucian democracyCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 26 (7): 1005-1027. 2023.The rise of East Asian Confucian heritage societies (China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore) has inspired an enormous amount of new empirical research. At the political level, one...
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789The Moral Basis of Political MeritocracyPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche (New Series) 7 (1): 246-270. 2017.
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104Democracy’s Value: A Conceptual MapJournal of Value Inquiry 54 (3): 407-427. 2020.The justification of democracy, while widely debated, is hindered by a sub-optimal conceptual framework. For a start, there is confusion about the basic terms in the discussion. Many theorists claim to support either the ‘intrinsic’ or the ‘instrumental’ value of democracy, but it is unclear what this exactly means. Can democracy have other kinds of values? What does it mean to value democracy intrinsically? As a result, at certain points, scholars are talking past one another and their assessm…Read more
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586The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy by Daniel A. Bell (review)Philosophy East and West 67 295-298. 2017.
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47From Democratic Meritocracy to Meritocratic Democracy: Why Political Meritocracy MattersPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 7 (1). 2017.Download.
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571Public Deliberation in a Globalized World? The case of Confucian Customs and TraditionsIn Michael Reder, Alexander Filipovic, Dominik Finkelde & Johannes Wallacher (eds.), Yearbook Practical Philosophy in a Global Perspective, Verlag Karl Alber. pp. 339-361. 2018.The question of how democracy can deal with cultural diversity has become more central than ever. The increasing flow of people to many Western democratic countries indicates that our societies will become more and more multicultural. But what is the best way for democracy to deal with cultural diversity? It has been argued that, given its communicative core, the Habermasian model of deliberative democracy provides a platform where cultural groups can concur on peaceful agreements. In this paper…Read more
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Delft University of TechnologyAssistant Professor
Delft, Netherlands
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Government and Democracy |
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |