Philosophy

Books

1. 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).) [abs].
2. 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 [abs].
3. D. Wong, Natural Moralities (October, 2006), Oxford University Press 2006 (Korean and Chinese translations in preparation.) [abs].

Papers Published

1. D. Wong, “Crossing Cultures in Moral Psychology”, Philosophy Today, vol. 3 (2002), pp. 7-10.
2. D. Wong, Entry on Cultural Relativism, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (2002) (Sponsored by UNESCO.).
3. D. Wong, “Relational and Autonomous Selves”, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 31 no. 4 (Winter, 2004), pp. 419-432 [abs].
4. Marion Hourdequin & David B. Wong, “A Relational Approach to Environmental Ethics”, Journal of Chinese Philosophy (2005), pp. 19-33 [abs].
5. D. Wong, “Zhuangzi and the Obsession with Being Right”, History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 22 no. 2 (Spring, 2005), pp. 91-107 [abs].
6. D. Wong, “Attachment and Detachment in Daoism, Buddhism, and Stoicism, Dao, vol. V no. 2 (June, 2006), pp. 207-19 [abs].
7. D. Wong, For other new publications in books see "Articles and chapters" below (2007).
8. D. Wong, "Moral Reasons: Internal and External", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 72 (2006) no. 3 (2007 actual year of issue), pp. 536-58 [abs].
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. D. Wong, "Constructing Normative Objectivity in Ethics", Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 25 no. 1 (January, 2008), pp. 237-266, Cambridge University Press [abs].
12. 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 [abs].

Papers Accepted

1. with Nicole Hassoun, "Conserving Nature, Preserving Identity", in Indigenous Knowledge, edited by Kay Matthiesen and Don Nichols (2008), University of Arizona Press [abs].
2. 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.) [abs].
3. D. Wong, "Moral Ambivalence and Relativism", in Relativism: A Compendium, edited by Michael Krausz (2009), Columbia University Press.
4. 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 [abs].
5. 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.

Book Reviews

1. D. Wong, Review of Fieldwork in Familiar Places by Michele Moody-Adams, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 63 (2002), pp. 716-720.
2. 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..
3. D. Wong, Review of François Jullien, Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (April 5, 2008).

Articles and Chapters

1. 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.).
2. D. Wong, “Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Online, continuous, edited by Edward N. Zalta (2001), Stanford University [available here].
3. D. Wong, “Moral Relativism” revised version, in Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd, edited by Lawrence Becker (2001), pp. 1164-1168, Routledge.
4. D. Wong, "Mo Tzu", in Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy, edited by Antonio Cua (2002), pp. 453-461, New York: Routledge.
5. D. Wong, “Comparative Philosophy”, in Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy, edited by Antonio Cua (2002), pp. 51-58, New York: Routledge.
6. 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.
7. 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 [abs].
8. 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.) [available here] [abs].
9. 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 [abs].
10. 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 [abs].
11. 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 [abs].
12. D. Wong, Evil and the Morality of Conviction, in Naming Evil Judging Evil, edited by Ruth Grant (2006), University of Chicago Press [abs].
13. D. Wong, "Where Charity Begins", in Davidson's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement, edited by Bo Mou (2006), Brill Academic Publishers [abs].
14. 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.
15. 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 [abs].
16. 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.
17. D. Wong, "Chinese Ethics", edited by Edward N. Zalta, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008).
18. 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 [abs].