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Curriculum Vitae

David Wong

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211 W Duke Bldg
Durham, NC 27708

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Education

PhD Princeton University 1977

B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Special Honors in Philosophy Macalester College 1971

Areas of Interest: Ethical Theory,
Moral Psychology,
Comparative Ethics,
Chinese Philosophy

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University: Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Professor of Philosophy, , July 01, 2007 - present

: Professor, , September, 2000 - present

Brandeis University: Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Philosophy, , 1993 - 2000

: Full Professor, , 1991 - 2000

: Associate Professor, , 1983 - 1991

: Chair, Department of Philosophy, , 1983 - 1990, 1993-1996

: Assistant Professor, , 1977 - 1983

: Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, , 1976 - 1977

Visiting Positions: John M. Findlay Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Boston University, Fall, 1999; Professor, Wellesley College, 1992, Spring 1999

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2007-8
Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Professor of Philosophy, July, 2007
Harry Austryn Wolfson Professorship in Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1993 - 2000
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, 1992 - 1993
Chancellor's Distinguished Lecturer, University of California at Irvine
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1986 - 1987
NDEA (National Defense Education Act) Fellowship, 1971-1974
Phi Beta Kappa

Recent Grant Support

National Humanities Center Fellowship 2007-08, National Humanities Center, 2007/09-2008/06.

Conferences Organized: Co-organizer, Duke-UNC Robertson Philosophy conference on "Intrinsic Value", September-April 2003

Professional Service

A&S Council: Co-director of Ethics Certificate Program (off for sabbatical 2007-8), 2007 - present; A & S council, August 24, 2003 - August 01, 2004

University Committee: Transcultural Studies Education Committee, September 1, 2005 - present; Co-director, ethics certificate program, Faculty Advisory Committee Ethics Certificate Program, 6 January 2004; Member of Crowne Chair Search Committee, 2006 - 2007; Member of Kenan Director Search Committee, 2006 - 2007; Franklin Humanities Institute Advisory Board, September 1, 2005 - July 01, 2007; Faculty Advisory Board for Kenan Institute, September 6, 2000 - June 30, 2007; Provost's Workgroup on the Ethics Initiative, September 01, 2005 - December 07, 2005; Transcultural Studies Workgroup, September 01, 2005 - December 07, 2005; Faculty participant, Kenan funded seminar for graduate students working on theses related to ethics, 2002-03; Subcommittee for drawing up ethics certificate proposal, January 6, 2001 - January 01, 2003

Departmental Officer: Chair, July 1, 2004 - July 01, 2007

Departmental Committee: APA interview committee, December 27, 2004-December 31, 2004; Search Committee (screening of applications), September 01, 2004-; Speaker committee, September 1, 2003 - July 01, 2004; Chair, Faculty Review Committee for Liam Murphy, January 6, 2003 - January 01, 2004; Chair, Faculty Review Committee for Tad Schmaltz, 2002-03; Search committees for Philosophy positions, 2001-2, 2004-5

Papers Refereed: Evaluated manuscripts for History of Philosophy Quarterly, 2005 - present; For Philosophy East & West, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Nous, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Ethics, January 6, 1984 - present

Service to the Professional Community: Editorial Board, Journal of Chinese Philosophy and History of Philosophy Quarterly, 2005 - present; Consulting Editor, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 7 January 2003; Associate Editor, Encylopedia of Chinese Philosophy, 7 January 1998; Panelist, Application Reviewer for ACLS, NEH, Harvard Mellon, Bunting Institute, and Woodrow Wilson Center, 1990 - present; Outside evaluator for tenure promotion cases, 1990 - present; Evaluated book manuscripts for University of California, Vanderbilt University, Cornell University, Brown University, and Cambridge University Presse, 1984 - present; Evaluated book manuscripts for Princeton University and Oxford University Presses, 1984 - present; Program Committee, Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, 1995

University Services: Co-director of ethics certificate program, January 7, 2006 - present

Other: Member, American Philosophical Association, 1972 - present

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Respondent to an "Author meets Critics" panel on my book Natural Moralities at Pacific APA, Pasadena, CA, March 20, 2008; Complexity and Simplicity in Ancient Greek and Chinese Thought, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, October 02, 2007; "identifying with the Nonhuman in Early Daoism, San Francisco Pacific APA, April 07, 2007; The Ruth Evelyn Parcells Memorial Lecture: "Constructing Normative Objectivity in Ethics", University of Connecticut at Storrs, March 30, 2007; "Agon and He: Contest and Harmony", Beijing University, November 3, 2007; Constructing Normative Objectivity in Ethics, Bowling Green University, November 18, 2006; “Identifying with the Nonhuman in Early Daoism", Institute for Chinese Studies, Oxford University, June 23, 2006; "Crossing Cultures in Moral Psychology", Duke University, December 05, 2005; “Attachment and Detachment in Daoism, Buddhism, and Stoicism, SUNY @ Buffalo, April 21, 2005; Participation on panel concerning terrorism and ethics, Duke University, April, 2005; "Taking Moral Relativism Seriously", University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 17, 2004; "Chinese Philosophy and Moral Relativism", Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, June 11, 2004; "Where Charity Begins", Conference entitled Philosophical Engagement: Davidson’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Scienceds, Beijing, China, June 09, 2004; “Relational and Autonomous Selves", Eastern Division of American Philosophical Association Meetings, Washington D.C., 30 December 2003; Commentary on ““The Role of French Colonialism in Current Vietnamese Attitudes towards Pharmaceuticals” by Laurence Monnais, Science Across Cultures: Workshop in the History of Science, Princeton University, 24 October 2003; “Culture, Class, and the Difficult Virtue of Respectful Dialogue", Panel concerning civic virtues in the 2003 Moral Education in a Diverse Society, Durham, N.C., September 19, 2003; “Zhuangzi and the Obsession with Being Right", Philosophy as a Way of Life: Moral Psychology in Early Chinese Philosophy, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, 3 May 2003; “Dwelling in Virtue or Free and Easy Wandering?”, University of Alabama at Huntsville, 15 October 2002; “The Kinds of Community We Need”, Franklin J. Matchette Lecture at Kent State University, 19 September 2002; “Pluralism, the Family, and Affective Networks”, A conference entitled, Social Networks and Civil Society: A Comparative Approach City University of Hong Kong, 2 April 2002; “Cultivating Moral Judgment”, At Moral Self-Cultivation conference, Santa Clara University, 10 April 2001; “Internal and External Reasons”, at Triangle Moral Philosophy Discussion Group, Chapel Hill, N.C., 6 November 2000; “Confucianism and Pluralism”, At a Workshop Confucianism and Pluralism, Wesleyan University, 14 May 2000; “Dwelling in Humanity or Free and Easy Wandering?”, Eight Annual Philosopher’s Conference, East-West Institute, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, 12 January 2000; Roundtable discussion, Conference on “Normativity,” Brown University, November, 1999; “Liberalism and the Dilemmas of Value Pluralism”, Institute on Race and Social Division, Boston University, 6 October 1999; "Harmony, Fragmentation, and Democratic Ritual", Duke University, 16 April 1999; "Fragmentation in Civil Society and the Good", The John M. Findlay Lecture, Boston University as the John M. Findlay Lecture, 14 February 1999; "Harmony, Fragmentation, and Democratic Ritual", Vassar College, 6 February 1999; Is There a Distinction Between Reason and Desire in Mencius?, University of California at Irvine, 1990; Reasons from the Inside and the Outside, University of California at Irvine, 1990

Doctoral Theses Directed: Kevin DeLapp, Re-enchanting Morality: a Defense of Pluralistic Moral Realism, (September, 2004 - May, 2006); Marion Hourdequin, An Evolutionary Naturalistic Account of Ethical Norms, (January 6, 2003 - September 01, 2005); Anthony Williams, Incommensurability, Rational Choice, and Progress in Ethics and Science: Problems, Solutions, and an Application, (2003)

Publications (listed separately)

Last modified: 2008/04/05