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2Fatalism, Fate, and Stratagem in China and GreeceIn Steven Shankman & Stephen W. Durrant (eds.), Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking through Comparisons, Suny Press. pp. 207-234. 2012.
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3Reason and Spontaneity ReconsideredIn 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. 215-230. 2018.
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16Skill in Ancient Ethics: The Legacy of China, Greece and Rome (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2021.This collection illustrates the centrality of skill within ancient ethics, including ancient Chinese ethics, showing how skill or techne has been a touchstone from the beginning of philosophical thought. Covering Socrates' search for expertise in virtue, the Republic's 'craft of justice', Aristotle's delineation of the politike techne and the Stoics' 'art of life'. Divided into four sections on Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Chinese ethics, it brings together world-leading philosophers working…Read more
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7Body and Mind in the Guodian ManuscriptsIn Shirley Chan (ed.), Dao Companion to the Excavated Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts, Springer Verlag. pp. 239-257. 2019.This paper considers the relation between body and mind as described in the Guodian corpus, especially the Xing zi ming chu 性自命出, with particular interest in problems of mind-body dualism and holism. It argues that the Xing zi ming chu presents a weak mind-body dualism, in contrast to such texts as Wuxing 五行 and Ziyi 緇衣.
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38Taking the Warp for the Weft: Gendered Anger in the LienüzhuanJournal of Chinese Philosophy 49 (3): 214-226. 2022.The emotion of anger has received overall negative treatment in recent moral philosophy. This article explores the gendered representations of anger in the Lienüzhuan 《列女傳》 of Liu Xiang 劉向 (77–6 BCE). It begins with a brief account of the semantic field of anger and its representation in the Lienüzhuan, focusing on three important patterns. Perhaps most important is the didactic role of anger; and how female teachers use it (or avoid it) in instructing male sons, husbands and rulers. Second is t…Read more
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Self, cosmos, and agency in early ChinaIn Kurt A. Raaflaub (ed.), The adventure of the human intellect: self, society and the divine in ancient world cultures, Wiley-blackwell. 2016.
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1Wheelwright Bian : A difficult daoIn Karyn Lai & Wai Wai Chiu (eds.), Skill and Mastery Philosophical Stories from the Zhuangzi, Rowman and Littlefield International. 2019.
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Time, chance, and fate in early Daoist textsIn Livia Kohn (ed.), Dao and time: classical philosophy, Three Pines Press. 2021.
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19A tripartite self: mind, body, and spirit in early ChinaOxford University Press. 2023.Chinese philosophy has long recognized the importance of the body and emotions in extensive and diverse self-cultivation traditions. Philosophical debates about the relationship between mind and body are often described in terms of mind-body dualism and its opposite, monism or some kind of "holism." Monist or holist views agree on the unity of mind and body, but with much debate about what kind, whereas mind-body dualists take body and mind to be metaphysically distinct entities. The question is…Read more
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14Gendered Skill: Skill and Knowledge in Weaving and ArcheryJournal of Chinese Philosophy 49 (1): 9-21. 2022.Weaving and archery are strongly gendered skills, and both occur repeatedly in both Chinese and Greek accounts of skill and ethics. I examine both metaphors and narratives that liken these skills to various aspects of ethics, wisdom and government, with particular interest in how or whether the account of the skill reflects the experience of the gender of its typical expert.
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4Divination and Autonomy: New Perspectives from Excavated TextsJournal of Chinese Philosophy 37 (5): 124-141. 2010.
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38Virtue, Body, Mind and Spirit in the Shijing: New Perspectives on Pre-Warring States Conceptions of Personhood and VirtueJournal of Chinese Philosophy 48 (1): 28-39. 2021.This paper addresses the location of virtue within a virtuous person. It examines the relations of body, mind and spirit in the Shijing 詩經, which describes virtue in terms of the bodies and minds of virtuous agents. I argue that virtue is attributed to outward behavior, rather than inner state, and that that behavior is described via the performance of the shen or gong body.
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21Skilled Feelings in Chinese and Greek Heart-Mind-Body MetaphorsDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 20 (1): 69-91. 2021.This article examines the operation of “skilled feelings” in metaphors for the heart-mind (xin 心) as ruler of the body. It focuses on three Chinese philosophical texts in contexts outside of the “Confucian” texts that have dominated the emerging field of comparative virtue ethics—the Zhuangzi 莊子, Sunzi Bingfa 孫子兵法 (Sunzi’s Art of War), and Huangdi Neijing 黃帝內經 (The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine)—and briefly contrasts the Chinese accounts to influential Greek metaphors of the mind…Read more
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18Analogical InvestigationsAustralasian Philosophical Review 1 (3): 269-276. 2017.ABSTRACTThis response to Analogical Investigations concentrates on the legacy of Lloyd's polarity and analogy, other theories of metaphor, and relations between theories of metaphor and theories of nature.
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6Book Review: Cognitive variations: G. E. R. Lloyd, Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity & Diversity of the Human Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 201 pp. £32.99 (hardback), ISBN: 9780199214617; £14.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780199566259 (review)History of the Human Sciences 22 (4): 126-131. 2009.
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7Innovation in Chinese Medicine. Edited by Elisabeth Hsu. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 426 pp. 60 Pounds Sterling. ISBN 0521800684) (review)Journal of Chinese Philosophy 31 (4): 552-555. 2004.
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41Knowing words: wisdom and cunning in the classical traditions of China and GreeceCornell University Press. 1992.Knowing Words will be welcomed by sinologists, classicists, and scholars of comparative philosophy and literature.
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129Fate, fortune, chance, and luck in chinese and greek: A comparative semantic historyPhilosophy East and West 53 (4): 537-574. 2003.: The semantic fields and root metaphors of "fate" in Classical Greece and pre-Buddhist China are surveyed here. The Chinese material focuses on the Warring States, the Han, and the reinvention of the earlier lexicon in contemporary Chinese terms for such concepts as risk, randomness, and (statistical) chance. The Greek study focuses on Homer, Parmenides, the problem of fate and necessity, Platonic daimons, and the "On Fate" topos in Hellenistic Greece. The study ends with a brief comparative me…Read more
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11Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China. By Mark Csikszentmihalyi (review)Journal of Chinese Philosophy 35 (3): 523-525. 2008.No Abstract
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58Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China (review)International Studies in Philosophy 38 (4): 173-175. 2006.
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49Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Self in Early ChinaHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 26 (4). 2009.
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29Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early ChinaJournal of the American Oriental Society 120 (1): 140. 2000.