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  David B. Wong, Affliated Faculty
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  David B. WongSusan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Trinity College Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

Office Location:  211 W Duke Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  (919) 660-3046
Email Address:  send me a message
Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/womstud/~dbwong

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • Phil 216.01, Problems in ethical theory Synopsis
    West duke 106, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
  • Phil 703s.01, Proseminar in ethics Synopsis
    East duke 204d, Th 01:10 PM-03:40 PM
Education:

  • Ph.D. Princeton University 1977
  • B.A. Macalester College 1971

Specialties:

Ethics
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Research Interests:

Before he came to Duke, David Wong (Ph.D. Princeton, 1977) was the Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University and the John M. Findlay Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. His works include Moral Relativity (University of California Press, 1984), "On Flourishing and Finding One's Identity in Community," (Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 1988),"Universalism versus Love with Distinctions: An Ancient Debate Revived" (Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 1989), "Coping with Moral Conflict and Ambiguity," Ethics (1992), "Xunzi on Moral Motivation," in Chinese Language, Thought, and Culture: Nivison and his Critics (1996), and "Reasons and Analogical Reasoning in Mencius," in Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Mengzi (2002). He has written articles on moral relativism for A Companion to Ethics, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Encyclopedia of Ethics, and Dictionnaire de philosophie morale. He was interviewed on the subjects of cultural and moral relativism for the Public Television Series, "The Examined Life." He has written on comparative ethics for The Encyclopedia of Ethics and on comparative philosophy for the Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy. He is co-editor with Kwong-loi Shun of a forthcoming anthology of comparative essays on Confucianism and Western philosophy: Confucian Ethics: a Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy and Community (Cambridge University Press).

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)
  1. Wong, DB. "Feeling, Reflection, and Reasoning in the Mencius." Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius  (April, 2023).  [abs]
  2. Wong, DB. Moral Relativism and Pluralism.  Cambridge University Press, January, 2023: 143 pages. [doi]  [abs]
  3. Wong, DB. "RESPONSIBILITY IN CONFUCIAN THOUGHT." The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility  (January, 2023): 125-136. [doi]  [abs]
  4. Wong, DB. "Feeling, Reflection, and Reasoning in the Mencius." Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy 18 (January, 2023): 517-538. [doi]  [abs]
  5. Wong, DB. "Mind (Heart-Mind) in Chinese Philosophy." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  (2023).  [abs]