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  David Wong, Affiliated Faculty
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  David WongProfessor

Office Location:  211 W Duke Building
Office Phone:  +1 919-660-3046, +1 919-660-3050
Email Address:  send me a message
Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/womstud/~dbwong

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • Phil 163.01, Chinese philosophy Synopsis
    West duke 202, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • Phil 291s.01, Special fields (top) Synopsis
    West duke 204, W 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
Education:

  • PhD Princeton University 1977
  • B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Special Honors in Philosophy Macalester College 1971

Specialties:

Ethics
Moral Psychology
Chinese Philosophy
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. D. Wong, trans. Xiamei Yang. "Translation of "Zhuangzi and the Obsession with Being Right" into Chinese." Chinese Philosophy in the English Speaking World  (Accepted, 2010).
  2. D. Wong. "Emotion and the Cognition of Reasons in Moral Motivation." Philosophical Issues (metaethics issue of Nous) 19 (October, October 9, 2009): 343-367.  [abs]
  3. D. Wong. ""Identifying with the Nonhuman in Early Daoism"."  Written for a symposium at Oxford University in June 2006, Topics in Comparative Ancient Philosophy: Greek and Chinese Journal of Chinese Philosophy  (Accepted, 2009).  [abs]
  4. D. Wong. ""Moral Ambivalence and Relativism"." Relativism: A Compendium  (Accepted, 2009).
  5. D. Wong. "“Emotion and the Cognition of Reasons in Moral Motivation”." Philosophical Issues (supplementary volume on metaethics to Nous)  (Accepted, 2009).  [abs]