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11Chinese PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.Some of the authors of the essays on Chinese philosophers prefer the pin yin system of romanization for Chinese names and words, while others prefer the Wade‐Giles system. Given that both systems are in wide use today, important names and words are given in both their pin yin and Wade‐Giles formulations. The author's preference is printed first, followed by the alternative romanization within brackets.
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10Neville's the Good is One, its Manifestations Many: A ResponseJournal of Chinese Philosophy 47 (3-4): 295-304. 2020.This response to Robert Neville's recently published The Good Is One, Its Manifestations Many asks two questions. First, does Neville's ontology of value entail a commitment to an organismic cosmological position consistent with what we see in Chinese traditions like Confucianism and Daoism? Second, is Neville mistaken in favoring Xunzi's over Mengzi's understanding of human nature when a rapprochement is possible between them?
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11Neville's the Good is One, its Manifestations Many: A ResponseJournal of Chinese Philosophy 47 (3-4): 295-304. 2020.This response to Robert Neville's recently published The Good Is One, Its Manifestations Many asks two questions. First, does Neville's ontology of value entail a commitment to an organismic cosmological position consistent with what we see in Chinese traditions like Confucianism and Daoism? Second, is Neville mistaken in favoring Xunzi's over Mengzi's understanding of human nature when a rapprochement is possible between them?
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22Forming One Body with All Things: Organicism and the Pursuit of an Embodied Theory of MindDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 21 (1): 107-133. 2022.This article uses the Confucian and Neo-Confucian slogan that we should strive to “form one body with all things” as a starting point for asking whether the organismic metaphors so central to their ontology might be compatible with and of service to contemporary thinkers in cognitive science and philosophy of mind who are actively pursuing a fully embodied theory of mind. In this article I draw upon lines of inquiry exemplified in the work of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson and Andy Clark who tak…Read more
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34Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists: Experience and Reality eds. by Brian G. Henning, William T. Myers, and Joseph D. John (review)American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 38 (2): 235-238. 2017.Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists is a volume whose topic is so obvious and fertile that I was sure someone must have already collected essays illustrating the many ways these two lines of inquiry challenge and reinforce one another. And, indeed, there exists the 1994 collection Process Pragmatism: Essays on a Quiet Philosophical Revolution, which was edited by Guy Debrock and contains essays by Sandra Rosenthal, Carl Hausman, and others. The revolution cited in that title mus…Read more
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53Are knowledge and action really one thing?: A study of Wang yang-ming's doctrine of mindPhilosophy East and West 39 (4): 419-447. 1989.
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15Thinking Through Hall and Ames: On the Art of Comparative PhilosophyDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 15 (4): 563-574. 2016.With the publication of their first collaborative book Thinking Through Confucius, David Hall and Roger Ames launched a comparative philosophical project juxtaposing American pragmatism and Chinese Confucianism. This essay focuses on the role pragmatic assumptions play in Hall’s and Ames’s announced goal of opening a “new route” into Chinese intellectual history. Hall and Ames aim to teach scholars whose scholarly sensibilities have been formed in the West what they must acknowledge about their …Read more
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19Knowledge as Active, Aesthetic, and Hypothetical: An Examination of the Relationship between Dewey's Metaphysics and EpistemologyPhilosophy Today 33 (3): 245-263. 1989.
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576Religion and the Ritual of Public Discourse1American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 32 (1). 2011.What role should religion play in public discourse? Not long ago Richard Rorty argued, in more than one place, that religion is a "conversation stopper" which polite people refer to only in private conversations. Religious believers complain, however, that this practice renders it impossible for them to participate in public discourse. They ask whether a democratic community is worthy of the name if it effectively forbids (by custom or legislation) a significant segment of its citizens from ack…Read more
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48The Unity of Knowledge and Action: Toward a Nonrepresentational Theory of KnowledgeState University of New York Press. 2002.Uses the thought of Wang Yang-ming, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead to explain a more coherent theory of knowledge
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14Metaphysics and Comparative Philosophy: A Discussion of Metaphysics in light of Robert C. Neville's EpistemologyJournal of Speculative Philosophy 9 (3). 1995.
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17Response to J. Wesley Robbins's "Donald Davidson and religious belief"American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 17 (2). 1996.
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27Knowledge, action, and the "one Buddha-vehicle": A comparative approachJournal of Chinese Philosophy 28 (4). 2001.
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19Value and the Self: A Pragmatic-Process-Confucian Response to Charles Taylor’s Sources of the SelfJournal of Chinese Philosophy 27 (1): 117-125. 2000.
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Minds, bodies, experience, nature: Is panpsychism really dead?In Donald A. Crosby & Charley D. Hardwick (eds.), Pragmatism, Neo-Pragmatism, and Religion: Conversations with Richard Rorty, Peter Lang. 1997.In a paper titled "Dewey between Hegel and Darwin," Richard Rorty argued that while it is appropriate to describe John Dewey as a radical empiricist and panpsychist, it would be better if we allowed those aspects of his thought to atrophy and eventually disappear. This paper challenges that claim, arguing that properly understood, radical empiricism and panpsychism continue to have a role in a world newly fascinated by the way bodies, minds, experience and nature are all interwoven into a compl…Read more
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4The Pragmatic Century: Conversations with Richard J. Bernstein (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2006.Critically engages the work of American philosopher Richard J. Bernstein
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15Knowledge as Active, Aesthetic, and Hypothetical: A Pragmatic Interpretation of Whitehead's CosmologyJournal of Speculative Philosophy 5 (1). 1991.
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