Curriculum Vitae
David Wong
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201 W Duke Building
Box 90743
Durham, NC 27708(919) 660-3046 (office) 
(email)
- 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
- Member, Stillman Chair Search Committee, 2008 - present
- A & S council, August 24, 2003 - August 01, 2004
- University Committee
- Transcultural Studies Education Committee, September 1, 2005 -2008
- Faculty Advisory Committee Ethics Certificate Program, January 6, 2004 - present
- 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
- Evaluated book manuscripts for Oxford University and University of Hawaii Presses, 2008 - present
- Rater of graduate programs for Philosophical Gourmet, 2008 - present
- Reviewed applications for National Humanities Center Fellowship, 2008 - present
- Editorial Board, Journal of Chinese Philosophy and History of Philosophy Quarterly, 2005 - present
- Evaluated manuscripts for Cambridge University, Cornell, Princeton, American University, Oxford University Presses, 2007
- Outside evaluator for tenure promotion cases, January 2008
- Associate Editor, Encylopedia of Chinese Philosophy, January 7, 1998 - 2005
- Evaluated applications for ACLS, Bunting Institute, NEH Fellowships, 2007
- 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
- Complexity and Simplicity in Aristotle and Early Daoist Thought, Bryn Mawr College, October, 2009
- Relativism and the Explanation of Commonality and Difference, Pacific APA, Vancouver, B.C., April 09, 2009
- Veroni Lecture: How Are Moral Conversions Possible?, Kent State University, March 11, 2009
- "Can Love Be Reasoned?", Eastern APA in Philadelphia, December 28, 2008
- "Pluralism and Ambivalence", Eastern APA in Philadelphia, December 28, 2008
- "Cultural Pluralism and Moral Identity", Notre Dame, November 13, 2008
- "Teaching Comparative Ethics", National University of Singapore, April 22, 2008
- Respondent to an "Author meets Critics" panel on my book Natural Moralities at Pacific APA, Pasadena, CA, March 20, 2008
- "Agon and He: Contest and Harmony", Beijing Forum, Beijing University, November 3, 2007
- "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
- Relativism and the Explanation of Commonality and Difference, Pacific APA, Vancouver, B.C., April 09, 2009
- Doctoral Theses Directed
- Hagop S Sarkissian, After Confucius: Psychology and Moral Power, (2009 - September 30, 2008)
- 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)
- Kevin DeLapp, Re-enchanting Morality: a Defense of Pluralistic Moral Realism, (September, 2004 - May, 2006)
- Publications (listed separately)
Last modified: 2009/10/16