Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
  • Neo-Confucianism, experimental philosophy and the trouble with intuitive methods
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 26 (5): 812-828. 2018.
    ABSTRACTThe proper role of intuitions in philosophy has been debated throughout its history, and especially since the turn of the twenty-first century. The context of this recent debate within analytic philosophy has been the heightened interest in intuitions as data points that need to be accommodated or explained away by philosophical theories. This, in turn, has given rise to a sceptical movement called experimental philosophy, whose advocates seek to understand the nature and reliability of …Read more
  • Recent Approaches to Confucian Filial Morality
    Philosophy Compass 5 (9): 725-734. 2010.
    A hallmark of Confucian morality is its emphasis on duties to family and kin as weighty features of moral life. The virtue of ‘filiality’ or ‘filial piety’ (xiao 孝), for example, is one of the most important in the Confucian canon. This aspect of Confucianism has been of renewed interest recently. On the one hand, some have claimed that, precisely because it acknowledges the importance of kin duties, Confucianism should be seen as an ethics rooted in human nature that remains a viable system of …Read more