AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, and Ethics.

AREAS OF COMPETENCE:

Logic, Feminist Philosophy, History of Philosophy.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Book:

The Examined Life: Chinese Perspectives, ed. with Introduction Chapter
(Global Publications, SUNY Binghamton, 2002).

Articles:

“The Concept of the Relational Self and Its Implications for Education” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 33:4 (December 2006)

“Feminist Epistemology: An Introduction,” Academic Perspective No. 1 (August 2005).

“Why was Mengzi not a Vegetarianist?” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32:1(March 2005)

“Mencius on Responsibility,” in Xinyan Jiang ed. The Examined Life: Chinese
Perspectives.

"Courage, Passion, and Virtue" in Bo Mou ed. Comparative Studies of Chinese
and Western Philosophies (Shangwu Press, Beijing, China, 2002)

"Zhang Dongsun: Pluralist Epistemology and Chinese Philosophy," in Nick Bunnin and
Cheng Chung-ying eds. Contemporary Chinese Philosophy (Blackwell 2002).

"Response to Jay Gallagher," Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 17:1 (2002
Winter).

“The Dilemma Faced by Chinese Feminists,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist
Philosophy 15:3 (Summer 2000).

"What Kind of Knowledge Does A Weak Willed Person Have?" Philosophy
East and West 50:2 (April 2000).

"Courage and the Aristotelian Unity of Action and Passion," Philosophical Inquiry
XXII (Winter-Spring 2000).

“Mencius on Human Nature and Courage,” The Journal of Chinese Philosophy
24 (1997). Reprinted in Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Mengzi
ed. by Xiusheng Liu and Philip J. Ivanhoe (Hackett Pub Co, 2002).

"The Law of Non-Contradiction and Chinese Philosophy," History and
Philosophy of Logic, 13:1 (January 1992): 1-14.

 "On Spinoza," in Zhou Fu-cheng, ed., The Classical Moralists in the Western
     World. Shanghai: Shanghai People's Press, 1987: 381-397.

 "On Rousseau," in Zhou Fu-cheng, ed., The Classical Moralists in the Western
     World. Shanghai: Shanghai People's Press, 1987: 426-444.

"On the Political Philosophy of Hobbes," (with Jiabo Liu), Foreign Politics,
No.2, 1987, Beijing.

"Contemporary Western Feminism," Spring of Wisdom, No.12 (December
1986). Haerbin, China.

"On the Stoic Moral Principle of 'Living According to Nature'," Jianghuai
Forum, No.3 (June 1986). Hefei, China.

Book Reviews:

Geaney, Jane. On the Epistemology of the Sense in Early Chinese Thought, Philosophy
East &West 55:3 (July 2005)

Ivanhoe Philip J. (translator and Commentator), The Daodejing of Laozi, Tao: A Journal
of Comparative Philosophy, Vol. III, No. 1, Winter 2003, 154-156.

Zhang Dainian: Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy, Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews (January 6, 2003).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS:

“Ethics: China and the West,” College of Engineering, California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona, Aug.10, 2004.

“Taoist Perspectives on Living and Ruling,” Kennesaw State University, March 18, 2004.

“Understanding Taoism,” California State University at San Bernardino, March 4, 2004.

“Courage and Self-Control,” The 21^st World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey,
August 12, 2003.

“Confucius on Courage,” Meeting of the International Society of Chinese Philosophy,
Eastern Division Meeting, the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia,
Dec. 28, 2002.

"Confucianism," California State University at Long Beach, October, 16, 2001.*

"Zhuangzi and Feminist Epistemology," the 12^th International Conference on Chinese
Philosophy, Beijing, July 23, 2001.

"Rational Beings and Moral Agency in Xunzi," Xunzi Conference, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 10, 2001.* *

"China's Economic Reform and Sexual Equality," Asian Connections Conference,
     University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, November 4, 2000.

"Mencius' 'Four Beginnings' and Moral Agency," Pacific Division Meeting, the
American Philosophical Association (APA), Berkeley, April 2, 1999.

"Human Rights and the Chinese Context", Eastern Division Meeting, the
American Philosophical Association, Washington, D.C., Dec. 29, 1998.

“The Unity of Opposites,” Meeting of the Association of Chinese Philosophers
in America, Pacific Division, the American Philosophical Association, Berkeley,
March 29, 1997.

“Moral Philosophy in China Today,” the Midwest China Seminar, Chicago,
December 7, 1996.

“Confucius’s ‘You Jiao Wu Lei’ and Its Anti-Racism Implication,” the APA
Special Session, Pacific Meeting, Seattle, April 6, 1996.

“The Way Chinese Philosophers Do Philosophy,” University of Arkansas at
Little Rock, February 22, 1996.

"Reason, Passion, and Courage," Confucianism Symposium, Harvard
University, April 21, 1994.

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* It was one of two presentations I gave there.

** Its revised version under the same title was delivered at California State University at
Long Beach, October 16, 2001.