-
36Bound to Share or Not to Care. The Force of Fate, Gods, Luck, Chance and Choice across CulturesJournal of Cognition and Culture 23 (3-4): 451-475. 2023.People across cultures consider everyday choices in the context of perceived various external life-determining forces: such as fate and gods (two teleological forces) and such notions as luck and chance (two non-teleological forces). There is little cross-cultural evidence (except for a belief in gods) showing how people relate these salient notions of life-determining forces to prosociality and a sense of well-being. The current paper provides preliminary cross-cultural data to address this gap…Read more
-
Doubts and Anxiety on a Way without CrossroadsIn Ian M. Sullivan & Joshua Mason (eds.), One corner of the square: essays on the philosophy of Roger T. Ames, University of Hawaiʻi Press. 2021.
-
6An Alternative to Individualism: Relational Concept of Human in Confucian Role EthicsProblemos 100 152-166. 2021.The article proposes to see Confucian role ethics as a philosophical project that puts forward metaethical and metaphilosophical arguments regarding the nature of ethics and the concept of human beings, instead of concentrating on its interpretational work in explicating the nature of early Confucian ethics. Thus, a more fitting context for evaluating the core claims of role ethics is suggested, one that is comprised of different positions, coming from a wide range of philosophical and cultural …Read more
-
26
-
99The weirdness of belief in free willConsciousness and Cognition 87 103054. 2021.It has been argued that belief in free will is socially consequential and psychologically universal. In this paper we look at the folk concept of free will and its critical assessment in the context of recent psychological research. Is there a widespread consensus about the conceptual content of free will? We compared English “free will” with its lexical equivalents in Lithuanian, Hindi, Chinese and Mongolian languages and found that unlike Lithuanian, Chinese, Hindi and Mongolian lexical expres…Read more
-
840Immorality and Bu Daode, Unculturedness and Bu WenmingJournal of Cultural Cognitive Science. forthcoming.In contemporary Western moral philosophy literature that discusses the Chinese ethical tradition, it is a commonplace practice to use the Chinese term daode 道德 as a technical translation of the English term moral. The present study provides some empirical evidence showing a discrepancy between the terms moral and daode. There is a much more pronounced difference between prototypically immoral and prototypically uncultured behaviors in English (USA) than between prototypically bu daode 不道德 and pr…Read more
-
Sun Yat-Sen UniversityResearcher
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Areas of Specialization
Experimental Philosophy: Ethics |
Chinese Ethics |
Classical Confucianism, Misc |