My primary interest centers around Early Chinese Philosophy, and most of my previous and current research are done in this field and in related researches on East Asia (e.g., history of science and technology and contemporary political ideas). Other interests include Ancient Greek Philosophy, Early Modern and Contemporary Ethics and Political Philosophy. I am currently on the editorial board for Chinese Comparative Philosophy for Philosophy Compass.

PH2301: Classical Chinese Philosophy I (projected 2015 Spring)

PH3301: Classical Chinese Philosophy II (projected 2015 Fall)

PH2222: Greek Philosophy (Socrates and Plato) (2014 Spring)

PH3222: Greek Philosophy (Aristotle) (projected 2014 Fall)

UHB2204: Virtue and Leadership (projected 2014 Spring)

(Honors and Graduate modules not listed here.)

"Zhuangzi and Humour" (Honors 2009)

"Practically Narrating: A Modern Accounting for an Ethical Self (MA 2010)

"Pyrrhonian Scepticism in Context" (Honors 2011)

"Zen and the Good Life" (MA under examination)

Thesis on the use of intuition in moral philosophy (MA ongoing)

Thesis on Zhuangzi's ethics (PhD ongoing)

Thesis on Confucian particularism (PhD ongoing)

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• "Mohist arguments on war" in Ping-cheung Lo and Sumner B. Twiss eds., Chinese Just War Ethics: Origin, Development, and Dissent (Forthcoming in Routledge)
• "A Theological Voluntarist Conception of Morality in the Mozi" in Justin Tiwald ed., Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy (Forthcoming in Oxford)
• "Xunzi Contra Mozi" in Eric Hutton ed., Dao Companion to the Xunzi (Forthcoming in Springer)
• "On Language and Ethics in the Analects" in Amy Olberding ed., Dao Companion to the Analects (Springer 2013)
• “Classical Confucianism as Virtue Ethics” in Stan van Hooft ed., The Handbook of Virtue Ethics (Acumen 2013)
• "From ‘Elevate the Worthy’ to ‘Intimacy with Officers’ in the Mozi”, in Nicolas Standaert and Carine Defoort eds., The Mozi as an Evolving Text (Brill, 2013)
• "Analects 13.3 and the Doctrine of "Correcting Names" in David Jones ed., Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Analects (Chicago: Open Court, 2008)

EDITORIAL WORK ON BOOKS

• Political Legitimacy in Asia: New Leadership Challenges (Palgrave, 2011). (Co-editor with John Kane and Haig Patapan)
• Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (Singapore: Singapore University Press/World Scientific Publishing, 2002). (Co-editor with Alan K. L. Chan and Gregory K. Clancey)

EDITORIAL WORK ON JOURNALS

• Politics and Policy, Special Issue: The Search for Legitimacy in Asia (June 2010) (Co-editor with John Kane and Haig Patapan)

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

• “On the Argument for “Jian’ai,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 12.4 (December 2013): 487-504
• "The Word and the Way in Mozi," Philosophy Compass 6.10 (Oct 2011): 652-662
• "Justification and Debate: Thoughts on Moist Moral Epistemology," Journal of Chinese Philosophy 35.3 (Special Issue on Mozi) (Sep 2008): 455-471
• "On a Gedankenexperiment in the Mozi Core Chapters," Oriens Extremus 45 (2005/6): 141-158
• "War and Ghosts in Mozi's Political Philosophy," Philosophy East and West 54.3 (July 2004): 343-364 (Co-author with Benjamin Wong)
• "Analects 13.3 and the Doctrine of "Correcting Names," Monumenta Serica (2003): 19-36
• "What Has J. L. Austin to Do with Confucius?" International Philosophical Quarterly 42.2 Issue 166 (June 2002): 193-208
• "The Confucian Gentleman and the Limits of Ethical Change," Journal of Chinese Philosophy 28.3 (Sep 2001): 209-234 (Co-author with Benjamin Wong)

BOOK REVIEWS

• Review of Erica Fox Brindley, Individualism in Early China: Human Agency and the Self in Thought and Politics in Journal of Chinese Religions 39 (2011)
• Review of Ian Johnston, The Mozi: A Complete Translation in Philosophy East and West (April 2012)
• Review of Bryan W. Van Norden, Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries in Notre Dame Philosophical Review (March 29, 2009) (Link)
• Review of Bryan W. Van Norden, Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy in Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 7.3 (Fall 2008): 343-344

MISCELLANEOUS

• "Chinese Intellectual History: From the Fall of the Han to the Rise of the Song Dynasty", in Alfred J. Andrea, et al eds., World History Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2010)
• "Mohism", in Mark Bevir ed., Encyclopedia of Political Theory (Sage, 2010)
• "Mozi (Mo-tzu, c. 400s—300s BCE)", The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Link) (7 November 2007)