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    Oxford Studies in Epistemology, Vol. 8 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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    The Zhuangzi, creativity, and epistemic virtue
    Philosophical Studies 180 (3): 815-842. 2023.
    This article explores how aspects of traditional Chinese thought regarding creativity can influence and enrich contemporary thought about related topics: specifically, how creativity can be construed as an epistemic or intellectual virtue, and the benefits of considering it as such. It proceeds in three parts. First, I review a conception of creativity suggested by aspects of the Zhuangzi that centrally involves forms of spontaneity and adaptivity engendered by embracing you 遊, or “wandering”, c…Read more
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    Skill and Mastery: Philosophical Stories from the Zhuangzi is part of Rowman & Littlefield International’s CEACOP (Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy) East Asian Comparative Ethics, P...
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    "See You in Your Next Life": Creativity, the Zhuangzi, and Grief
    Res Philosophica 100 (1): 121-149. 2023.
    Drawing from cross-cultural work on creativity undertaken within philosophical psychology, as well as contemporary commentaries on the philosophy of the Zhuangzi, this article motivates a conception of creativity that emphasizes spontaneity and adaptivity—rather than novelty or originality—engendered by embracing you 遊 (“wandering”). It argues that this approach to creativity can enable us to understand certain forms of religious experiences, especially those related to grief and bereavement, as…Read more
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    Oxford Studies in Epistemology 7 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2022.
    Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a periodical publication which offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America, Europe, and Australasia, it publishes exemplary papers in epistemology, broadly construed. Topics within its purview include: - traditional epistemological questions concerning the nature of belief, justification, and knowledge, the status of scepticism,…Read more
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    Creativity and Yóu: the Zhuāngzǐ and scientific inquiry
    European Journal for Philosophy of Science 12 (2): 1-26. 2022.
    Might traditional Chinese thought regarding creativity not just influence, but also enrich, contemporary European thought about the same? Moreover, is it possible that traditional Chinese thought regarding creativity might enrich contemporary thought both in a more broad, holistic sense, and more specifically regarding the nature and role of creativity as it pertains to scientific inquiry? In this paper, I elucidate why the answer to these questions is: yes. I explain in detail a classical Chine…Read more
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    Doubting Perspectives and Creative Doubt
    Midwest Studies in Philosophy 45 1-25. 2021.
    Doubt is often considered to be an enemy of creativity. But, might it be its friend, too? We see, in the Zhuangzi, a number of explorations that point toward an interesting affirmative answer to this question. To explain how the text can be interpreted as suggesting such an answer, this paper proceeds in two parts. First, in section one, I clarify what is meant by “doubt” for the purposes of this paper, as well as several ways in which it can be directed toward its relevant target: entire perspe…Read more
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    A Critical Introduction to Fictionalism
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 99 (2): 419-419. 2021.
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    Apophatic Language, the Aesthetic, and the Sensus Divinitatis
    Journal of Analytic Theology 8 (1): 100-119. 2020.
    Across a variety of religious and philosophical traditions, it is common to think that it is possible that God defies all description. This presents a problem, however, as the claim that God defies all description itself appears to describe God. Drawing on multiple religious and philosophical traditions, this paper proposes an addition to the pragmatic stock of approaches to this problem. The proposal is that apophatic utterances are best interpreted—at least in the first instance—as invitations…Read more
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    This paper explores a few of the ways that the Zhuang-Zi can inform contemporary analytic epistemology. I begin, in section 1, by briefly outlining and summarizing the case for my fictionalist interpretation of the text. In section 2, I discuss how the Zhuang-Zi can be brought into productive dialogue with the question of how we should respond to skeptical arguments. Specifically, I argue that the Zhuang-Zi can be reasonably interpreted as exemplifying an approach that is different from dominant…Read more
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    The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought, by IngMichael D. K.. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. x + 293.
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    A Paradox of Vulnerability
    Res Philosophica 96 (3): 373-382. 2019.
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    Is Zhuangzi a Fictionalist?
    Philosophers' Imprint 18. 2018.
    This paper explores the possibility that Zhuangzi can be fruitfully interpreted as a fictionalist. It proceeds in four parts. Part one discusses two distinct and very general types of fictionalism—force and content—that might prove useful for an interpreter of the Zhuangzi. The former type of view would have it that the expressions in question—that is, the expressions that Zhuangzi is held to advocate using and interpreting non-literally—are not best seen as used in a way that aims at, e.g., tru…Read more
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    The Oneness Hypothesis and Aesthetic Obligation
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 99 (2): 501-507. 2019.
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    One challenge involved in integrating so-called ‘non-Western’ philosophies into ‘Western’ philosophical discourse concerns the fact that non-Western philosophical texts frequently differ significantly in style and approach from Western ones, especially those in contemporary analytic philosophy. But how might one bring texts that are written, for example, in a literary, non-expository style, and which do not clearly advance philosophical positions or arguments, into constructive dialogue with tho…Read more
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    Moral Cultivation: Japanese Gardens, Personal Ideals, and Ecological Citizenship
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (4): 507-518. 2018.