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26. “You Ought to Be Ashamed of Yourself!”In Roger T. Ames Peter D. Hershock (ed.), Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence, University of Hawaii Press. pp. 125-141. 2015.
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5Ethics as Grammar: Changing the Postmodern Subject (review)Review of Metaphysics 56 (2): 433-434. 2002.This book outlines Wittgenstein’s criticisms of traditional philosophy and shows the impact of Wittgenstein’s therapeutic approach to philosophy on theologian Stanley Hauerwas’s approach to Christian ethics, on the one hand, and argues that Hauerwas’s approach to ethics overcomes aporias, contradictions, central to Wittgenstein’s philosophical method, on the other. Given the ambition of the project, this book ought to be of interest both to theologians and philosophers interested in the complex …Read more
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16Is the Question “Who Does the Sounding?” Meaningful?Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 17 (4): 559-568. 2018.
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6Whose Tradition? Which Dao?: Confucius and Wittgenstein on Moral Learning and ReflectionState University of New York Press. 2014._Considers the notable similarities between the thought of Confucius and Wittgenstein._
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27Nylan, Michael, and Thomas Wilson, Lives of Confucius: Civilization’s Greatest Sage Through the Ages: New York: Doubleday Religion, 2010, x + 293 pages (review)Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 11 (2): 259-262. 2012.
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38Richey, Jeffrey, editor, Teaching confucianism (review)Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 8 (3): 349-351. 2009.
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30Self- Deception and the Problem of AvoidanceSouthern Journal of Philosophy 21 (4): 565-574. 1983.
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12McLeod, Alexus, Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy: A Comparative Approach: London, New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, vxii + 197 pagesDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 16 (2): 299-302. 2017.
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65Why zhuangzi's real discovery is one that lets him stop doing philosophy when he wants toPhilosophy East and West 58 (3). 2008.Recent interest in the Zhuangzi by Western philosophers arises from the sense that Zhuangzi offers a form of philosophical theory, such as perspectivism. A key issue for this line of interpretation is how best to resolve alleged contradictions between the central philosophical claims of the "Qiwulun" with other claims made in the text. A more radical reading of this chapter will avoid these problems if it can find some way to understand this chapter as philosophically interesting because it scru…Read more
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35Philosophy as Therapy: An Interpretation and Defense of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophical ProjectState University of New York Press. 1992.Argues that Wittgenstein's early ethical notion of agreement with the world pivoted to become his later therapeutic notion of agreement with living forms, which satisfies the conditions necessary for a full therapeutic philosophy.
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2A strategy for integrating Confucius' analects into a typical introduction to philosophy courseIn David Edward Jones & Ellen R. Klein (eds.), Asian Texts, Asian Contexts: Encounters with Asian Philosophies and Religions, State University of New York Press. 2009.
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Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
20th Century Philosophy |
Asian Philosophy |