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ProfessorEducation:
- PhD Princeton University 1977
- B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Special Honors in Philosophy Macalester College 1971
- Specialties:
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Ethics
Chinese Philosophy Moral Psychology
- 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)
- D. Wong. ""Constructing Normative Objectivity in Ethics"." Paper delivered at conference on
objectivism, subjectivism and relativism in
ethics, at Bowling Green University,
September 2006
Social Philosophy and Policy 25:1 (January,
January, 2008): 237-266. [abs]
- with Nicole Hassoun. ""Conserving Nature, Preserving Identity"." Indigenous Knowledge (Accepted, 2008). [abs]
- D. Wong. ""Chinese Ethics"." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008).
- with Owen Flanagan and Hagop Sarkissian. "What is the Nature of Morality? A Response to Casebeer, Railton, and Ruse." Moral Psychology, v.1, The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness (2007): 45-52.
- with Owen Flanagan and Hagop Sarkissian. ""Naturalizing Ethics"." Moral Psychology: v.1, The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness (2007): 1-25.
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