Curriculum Vitae

David Wong

201 W Duke Building
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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: 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

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)

Publications

Books

D. Wong, Natural Moralities (October, 2006), Oxford University Press 2006 (Korean and Chinese translations in preparation.)
Kwong-loi Shun and David B. Wong (editors), Confucian Ethics: a Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy and Community (Fall, 2004), New York: Cambridge University Press
D. Wong, Moral Relativity (1984), University of California Press (Excerpts from two chapters were selected for inclusion in Moral Disagreements: Classic and Contemporary Readings, edited by Christopher W. Gowans, (London: Routledge, 2000).)

Papers Published

D. Wong, Emotion and the Cognition of Reasons in Moral Motivation, Philosophical Issues (metaethics issue of Nous), vol. 19 (October 9, 2009), pp. 343-367
D. Wong, "Constructing Normative Objectivity in Ethics", Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 25 no. 1 (January, 2008), pp. 237-266, Cambridge University Press
D. Wong, trans. Jan Rovensky, Translation into Czech of "Rights and Community in Confucianism," originally published in Confucian Ethics: a Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy and Community, in An Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights: The Western, Islamic and Confucian Perspectives, edited by Marek Hrubec (2008), Publishing House Filosofia
D. Wong, trans. Wen Haimin, Translation into Chinese of "Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western" originally in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, in Philosophy, edited by Jiyuan Yu (2008), Renmin University Press
D. Wong, "Moral Reasons: Internal and External", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 72 (2006) no. 3 (2007 actual year of issue), pp. 536-58
D. Wong, For other new publications in books see "Articles and chapters" below (2007)
D. Wong, “Attachment and Detachment in Daoism, Buddhism, and Stoicism, Dao, vol. V no. 2 (June, 2006), pp. 207-19
D. Wong, “Zhuangzi and the Obsession with Being Right”, History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 22 no. 2 (Spring, 2005), pp. 91-107
Marion Hourdequin & David B. Wong, “A Relational Approach to Environmental Ethics”, Journal of Chinese Philosophy (2005), pp. 19-33
D. Wong, “Relational and Autonomous Selves”, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 31 no. 4 (Winter, 2004), pp. 419-432
D. Wong, “Crossing Cultures in Moral Psychology”, Philosophy Today, vol. 3 (2002), pp. 7-10
D. Wong, Entry on Cultural Relativism, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (2002) (Sponsored by UNESCO.)

Papers Accepted

D. Wong, trans. Xiamei Yang, Translation of "Zhuangzi and the Obsession with Being Right" into Chinese, in Chinese Philosophy in the English Speaking World, edited by Xinyan Jiang (2010), Renmin University Press
D. Wong, "Identifying with the Nonhuman in Early Daoism", Journal of Chinese Philosophy (2009) (Written for a symposium at Oxford University in June 2006, Topics in Comparative Ancient Philosophy: Greek and Chinese.)
D. Wong, "Moral Ambivalence and Relativism", in Relativism: A Compendium, edited by Michael Krausz (2009), Columbia University Press
D. Wong, “Emotion and the Cognition of Reasons in Moral Motivation”, edited by Enrique Villanueva and Ernest Sosa, Philosophical Issues (supplementary volume on metaethics to Nous) (2009), Blackwell
with Nicole Hassoun, "Conserving Nature, Preserving Identity", in Indigenous Knowledge, edited by Kay Matthiesen and Don Nichols (2008), University of Arizona Press

Papers In Preparation

D. Wong, "Relativist Explanations of Group and Interpersonal Disagreement", in Blackwell Companion to Relativism, edited by Steven Hales (2010), Blackwell
D. Wong, "Moral Relativism", in International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Hugh LaFollette (2010), Blackwell
D. Wong, Response to Commentaries by Lawrence Blum, Chad Hansen, and Steven Geisz and Brook Sadler (APA Book Panel on my book Natural Moralities,, Dao (2009)
D. Wong and Nicole Hassoun, “Communitarianism and Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Globalization and Culture” (2008)
D. Wong, "How Are Moral Conversions Possible?" (2008) (Written for a forthcoming conference on goodness to be held at Duke..)
D. Wong, "Complexity and Simplicity in Ancient Greek and Chinese Thought" (2007)
D. Wong, "Agon and He: Contest and Harmony" (2007)
with Gary Comstock, "Pettit on Holism" (2007)

Book Reviews

D. Wong, Review of François Jullien, Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (April 5, 2008)
D. Wong, Review of A Chinese Ethics for the New Century: The Ch’ien Mu Lectures in History and Culture, and Other Essays on Science and Confucian Ethics by Donald J. Munro, Journal of Chinese Studies, vol. 46 (2006), pp. 447-54.
D. Wong, Review of Fieldwork in Familiar Places by Michele Moody-Adams, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 63 (2002), pp. 716-720

Articles and Chapters

D. Wong, "Cultural Pluralism and Moral Identity", in Personality, Identity, and Character: Explorations in Moral Psychology , edited by Darcia Narvaez and Dan Lapsley (2009), Cambridge University Press
D. Wong, "Chinese Ethics", edited by Edward N. Zalta, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008), ISSN URL = .
with Owen Flanagan and Hagop Sarkissian, What is the Nature of Morality? A Response to Casebeer, Railton, and Ruse, in Moral Psychology, v.1, The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness (2007), pp. 45-52
with Owen Flanagan and Hagop Sarkissian, "Naturalizing Ethics", in Moral Psychology: v.1, The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness, edited by Walter Sinott-Armstrong (2007), pp. 1-25, MIT
D. Wong, "If We Are Not by Ourselves, If We Are Not Strangers", in Polishing the Chinese Mirror: Essays in Honor of Henry Rosemont, Jr., edited by Ronnie Littlejohn and Marthe Chandler (2007), pp. 331-349, Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
D. Wong, Evil and the Morality of Conviction, in Naming Evil Judging Evil, edited by Ruth Grant (2006), University of Chicago Press
D. Wong, "Where Charity Begins", in Davidson's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement, edited by Bo Mou (2006), Brill Academic Publishers
D. Wong, "Rights and Community in Confucianism", in Confucian Ethics: a Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy and Community, edited by Kwong-loi Shun and David B. Wong (November, 2004), Cambridge University Press
D. Wong, "Rights and Community in Confucianism", in Confucian Ethics: a Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy and Community, edited by Kwong-loi Shun & David B. Wong (Fall, 2004), pp. 31-48, New York: Cambridge University Press
D. Wong, “Confucian Perspectives on Pluralism, Gender Relations, and the Family", in The Politics of Affective Relations: East Asia and Beyond, edited by Hahm Chaihark, Hahm Chaibong & Daniel Bell (Fall, 2004), Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
D. Wong, "Dwelling in Humanity or Free and Easy Wandering?", in Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millenium, edited by Peter D. Hershock, Marietta Stepaniants & Roger T. Ames (2003), pp. 400-415, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press
D. Wong, "Cultural Relativism", in Online Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, "Institutitional Issues Involving Ethics and Justice" under the more general category of "Institutional and Infrastructural Resources", edited by Robert Charles Elliot (for the "Ethics and Justice" division (2003), Oxford, UK: Eolss Publishers (A new interdisciplinary Encylopedia sponsored by UNESCO that is organized around thematic categories that converge on their relevance to issues of development and sustainability.)
D. Wong, "Mo Tzu", in Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy, edited by Antonio Cua (2002), pp. 453-461, New York: Routledge
D. Wong, “Comparative Philosophy”, in Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy, edited by Antonio Cua (2002), pp. 51-58, New York: Routledge
D. Wong, “Reasons and Analogical Reasoning in Mengzi", in Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Mengzi, edited by Xiusheng Liu and Philip J. Ivanhoe (2002), Hackett Publishing Company
D. Wong, “Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Online, continuous, edited by Edward N. Zalta (2001), Stanford University
D. Wong, “Moral Relativism” revised version, in Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd, edited by Lawrence Becker (2001), pp. 1164-1168, Routledge
D. Wong, "Fragmentation in Civil Society and the Good", in Civility, edited by Leroy Rouner (2000), Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press (Also published in Chinese, in Harvard Yenching Journal, Beijing, 2000.)

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David Wong