Research Interests for David B. Wong

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).

Keywords:

Anthropology, Cultural relativism, Emotions (Philosophy), Emotions and cognition, Ethical Relativism, Ethical Theory, Metaethics, Philosophy, Truth

Areas of Interest:

Ethical Theory
 Moral Psychology
 Comparative Ethics
 Chinese Philosophy

Recent Publications

1. Wong, DB, Feeling, Reflection, and Reasoning in the Mencius, in Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius, edited by Yang, X; Chong, K-C (April, 2023), Springer Nature, ISBN 9783031276200 [abs]
2. Wong, DB, Moral Relativism and Pluralism (January, 2023), pp. 143 pages, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781009044301 [doi] [abs]
3. Wong, DB, RESPONSIBILITY IN CONFUCIAN THOUGHT, in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility (January, 2023), pp. 125-136, ISBN 9781032252391 [doi] [abs]
4. Wong, DB, Feeling, Reflection, and Reasoning in the Mencius, in Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy, vol. 18 (January, 2023), pp. 517-538 [doi] [abs]
5. Wong, DB, Mind (Heart-Mind) in Chinese Philosophy, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Zalta, EN; Nodelman, U (2023), The Metaphysics Research Lab [abs]