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    Risk decision: The self-charity discrepancies in electrophysiological responses to outcome evaluation
    with Mei Li, Jin Li, Huie Li, Chang You, Guanfei Zhang, and Yiping Zhong
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16 965677. 2022.
    Previous studies have examined the outcome evaluation related to the self and other, and recent research has explored the outcome evaluation of the self and other with pro-social implications. However, the evaluation processing of outcomes in the group in need remains unclear. This study has examined the neural mechanisms of evaluative processing by gambling for the self and charity, respectively. At the behavioral level, when participants make decisions for themselves, they made riskier decisio…Read more
  • Pandangan hidup =
    Widjaya. 1952.
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    An argument against ethical subjectivism
    Think 14 (41): 69-72. 2015.
    This article provides an argument against ethical subjectivism as a normative theory. It highlights how ethical subjectivism does not correspond with the phenomena of how we argue. Ethical subjectivism suggests that ethics is a matter of subjective preferences, but we do not usually enter into a serious debate on such matters. On the contrary, when we argue we believe that what we argue for is objectively true. This may pose a serious problem to an ethical subjectivist who holds that ethical con…Read more
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    The Chinese in the United States: Social Mobility and Assimilation
    with Dorris W. Goodrich
    Journal of the American Oriental Society 95 (1): 121. 1975.
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    This article argues that environmental considerations fall within the scope of medical bioethics, and there are implications specific to medical education. It endorses the need to expand the scope and epistemology of contemporary medical bioethics discourse by including themes related to environmental considerations. Our discussion begins by providing a brief history of environmental bioethics. It then offers a critique of three specific health and environmental issues, namely technology, toxics…Read more
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    Han Yu's “Za shuo” 雜說 (Miscellaneous Discourses): A Three-Tier System of Government
    Journal of the American Oriental Society 140 (4): 859-874. 2020.
    This article highlights the significance of the “Za shuo” 雜說 (Miscellaneous discourses) series for the study of Han Yu’s 韓愈 (768–824) political ideology, which proposes a three-tier system of governance that is made up of the emperor, the feudal lords, and the bureaucrats. The emperor is the pinnacle of the system; he collaborates with his ministers to devise state policies in the inner palace. The feudal lords protect the emperor in the regional areas. The bureaucrats form the machinery of the …Read more
  •  4
    Temporospatial Alterations in Upper-Limb and Mallet Control Underlie Motor Learning in Marimba Performance
    with Tristan Loria, John de Grosbois, Aiyun Huang, and Michael H. Thaut
    Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
    Sound-producing movements in percussion performance require a high degree of fine motor control. However, there remains a relatively limited empirical understanding of how performance level abilities develop in percussion performance in general, and marimba performance specifically. To address this issue, nine percussionists performed individualised excerpts on marimba within three testing sessions spaced 29 days apart to assess early, intermediate, and late stages of motor learning. Motor learn…Read more
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    Prediction of daily rainfall is important for flood forecasting, reservoir operation, and many other hydrological applications. The artificial intelligence algorithm is generally used for stochastic forecasting rainfall which is not capable to simulate unseen extreme rainfall events which become common due to climate change. A new model is developed in this study for prediction of daily rainfall for different lead times based on sea level pressure which is physically related to rainfall on land …Read more
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    Pornography and Christology
    The Australasian Catholic Record 97 (3): 312. 2020.
    This article results from the experimental convergence of five elements. Three of these are seemingly unrelated names: the Anglican philosopher John Milbank, the German critical theorist Walter Benjamin, and the incarnate Word, Jesus Christ. The remaining two are themes that seem to have little relation to each other: the explosion of online pornography, which is making addicts of younger and younger users, and Christology or the study of the nature and work of the Second Person of the Trinity.
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    Sharing Information on COVID-19: the ethical challenges in the Malaysian setting
    with Aimi Nadia Mohd Yusof, Muhamad Zaid Muuti, and Lydia Aiseah Ariffin
    Asian Bioethics Review 12 (3): 349-361. 2020.
    The COVID-19 pandemic has raised challenges in dealing with information sharing by the public and the authorities. There are two categories of information sharing on social media that are believed to be potentially problematic and unethical: the sharing of personal information of patients and the sharing of fake news or false information. We present a discussion on how the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia can be ethically handled in terms of information sharing. It is recommended th…Read more
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    This work explores the ways in which the anime of Makoto Shinkai cinematically portrays the theological virtues of faith, hope and love. The article will explore each virtue individually, with specific reference to the work of Josef Pieper and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. In addition, it will juxtapose their explorations of these virtues with samples of Shinkai’s corpus of films. It will assert that the consistency of Shinkai’s work reveals several important parallels with the theological virtues…Read more
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    Remembering Vincent Shen
    Philosophy East and West 69 (2): 313-315. 2019.
    Our inspiring mentor, Vincent Shen, who served as Lee Chair Professor in Chinese Thought and Culture at the University of Toronto, passed away on Wednesday, November 14, 2018, at age sixty-nine. Professor Shen joined the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Toronto in 2000 and was Department Chair from 2007 to 2010. He held joint appointments in Philosophy and Religious Studies. A specialist in Chinese Philosophy and Comparative Philosophy, he was a prolific writer and a highly …Read more
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    W ang Fuzhi’s Criticism of Buddhism and Its Limitations
    Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 17 (3): 381-400. 2018.
    Wang Fuzhi’s 王夫之 remarks on Buddhism have not been given sufficient attention despite increasing research on him. The few works on this topic either focus on just one aspect of his view of Buddhism or fail to disclose the purpose and uniqueness of his attack of it. This essay analyzes his view of Buddhism comprehensively, in particular his insight into the paradox of Buddhist universal love and his rejection of Buddhist retribution and reincarnation from Confucian righteousness and qi 氣-monism. …Read more
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    İsmaili Davet: Sosyo-Politik Gelişim Süreci
    Dini Araştırmalar 18 (47). 2016.
  •  6
    II. Meşrutiyet Romanında Sultan II. Abdülhamid'e Karşı Verilen "İktidar Mücadele
    Journal of Turkish Studies 11 (Volume 11 Issue 10): 563-563. 2016.
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    Abortion in/as a Consumer Structure
    Solidarity: The Journal for Catholic Social Thought and Secular Ethics 4 (1). 2014.
    This article argues that the contemporary acceptability of abortion is not solely due to the Liberal imperative to exercise individual choice. Rather, abortion's acceptability needs to be explained with reference to the techniques of consumer culture. This article will begin by explaining how practices in general predispose one to gravitate towards one form of practices rather than another. It will then look at how consumer practices generate a biopolitics of economic efficiency and corporeal co…Read more
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    Ecological Disaster & Jacques Ellul’s Theological Vision
    with Paul Tyson
    Solidarity: The Journal of Catholic Social Thought and Secular Ethics 2 (1). 2012.
    This paper will focus Jacques Ellul’s insights onto the manner in which our modern technological society is deeply ingrained in the subordination of both humanity and nature to efficient use. Ellul maintains that our way of life is characterised by structural instrumentalism, which is in turn underpinned by a distorted theological outlook. The paper asserts that these aforementioned factors together form the key drivers that propel us towards environmental desolation. This paper asserts that no …Read more
  •  47
    Critical periods after stroke study: translating animal stroke recovery experiments into a clinical trial
    with Alexander W. Dromerick, Matthew A. Edwardson, Dorothy F. Edwards, Margot L. Giannetti, Jessica Barth, Kathaleen P. Brady, Evan Chan, Irfan Tamboli, Ruth Chia, Michael Orquiza, Robert M. Padilla, Amrita K. Cheema, Mark E. Mapstone, Massimo S. Fiandaca, Howard J. Federoff, and Elissa L. Newport
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. 2015.
  • Madilog, materialisme, dialektika, logika
    with Ronny Agustinus and Pusat Data Indikator
    Widjaya. 1951.
    Philosophy of dialectical materialism and logic.
  • This paper argues that Zhuangzi is actually roaming the universe, the mind recognizes no shelter after the reach of the state, and Enron to accept all possibilities. "Little big Distinction" is the means Happy Zhuangzi achieve its aim of breaking the "small" in order to establish the "big": "Big" is the state of mind without shelter, "small" is the mind of foreign objects or the concept of stubbornness. Resulting to Guo Xiang, represented "enough of Happy" is the distortion of the Zhuangzi getaw…Read more
  • Book Review: Chen Yang: "Philosophical interpretation of Zhang Zai" (review)
    Philosophy and Culture 36 (6): 175-178. 2009.
  • Book Review (review)
    Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10 399-401. 2011.
    Liu, Xiaogan 劉笑敢, Zhuangzi’s Philosophy and Its Transformation 莊子哲學及其演變 Beijing 北京: People’s University of China Press, 2010, 433 pages
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    Plato’s Ideal Ruler Today
    Philosophy Now 101 9-10. 2014.
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    Filial Piety, Modernization, and the Challenges of Raising Children for Chinese Immigrants: Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence
    with Eli Lieber and Kazuo Nihira
    Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 32 (3): 324-347. 2004.
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    The Biography of a Philosopher (review)
    Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 4 (8): 56-56. 2009.