Curriculum Vitae of David B. Wong

Curriculum Vitae

David B. Wong

Duke Box 90743, Durham, NC 27708-0743

+1 919 660 3046 (office)

(email)

Education

Ph.D.	Princeton University	1977
B.A.	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: Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring, Duke University Graduate School, March 25, 2020
Best Essay for 2015 in Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Dao: A Journal of Comparative
Berggruen Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Fall
Fellow, Berggruen Institute of Philosophy and Culture, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2007-8
Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Professor of Philosophy, July, 2007
Fellow, National Humanities Center
Harry Austryn Wolfson Professorship in Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1993 - 2000
Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars, National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, 1992 - 1993
Chancellor's Distinguished Lecturer, University of California at Irvine
ACLS Fellows (ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships and ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships), American Council of Learned Societies
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1986 - 1987
NDEA (National Defense Education Act) Fellowship, 1971-1974
Phi Beta Kappa

Conferences Organized: Advisory editor for the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Advisory editor for the Journal of the American Philosophical Association. April 01, 2014, April 01, 2014 - present; Wrote evaluation letters for two tenure cases and 1 promotion to full professor case, January 2014; Adviser to program committee of Eastern Division, APA, Adviser to program committee of Eastern Division, APA. 2010 - 2013, 2010 - spring 2013; Served as an external examiner for Masters thesis "Li: an Interpretation" by Colin Lewis, Hong Kong University, Served as an external examiner for Masters thesis "Li: an Interpretation" by Colin Lewis, Hong Kong University. April 27, 2012, April 2012; Visiting Committee to the Philosophy Department of the National University of Singapore, Visiting Committee to the Philosophy Department of the National University of Singapore. August, 2011, August, 2011; External reader on PhD dissertation in Philosophy, University of Toronto, External reader on PhD dissertation in Philosophy, University of Toronto. June, 2011, June, 2011; Co-organizer, Duke-UNC Robertson Philosophy conference on "Intrinsic Value", September-April 2003

Professional Service

A&S Council: Steering committee LACC (Duke-Kunshan),, 2014 - present; Liberal Arts for Duke Kunshan University, 2012 - present; Chair, Faculty Council of Kenan Ethics Institute, September 1, 2010 - May 2014; Provost's Advisory Committee onAppointment, Promotion, and Tenure, September 01, 2010 - spring 2013; Stillman Chair Search Committee, 2008 - 2009; Arts and Sciences Council, August 24, 2003 - August 01, 2004

University Committee: Academic Integrity Council, 2013 - present; Faculty Council of Kenan Institute, 2014; Faculty Advisory Committee Ethics Certificate Program, January 6, 2004 - May 30, 2009; 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; Transcultural Studies Education Committee, September 1, 2005 - September 01, 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

DUS: DUS, August 1, 2014 - July 30, 2015

Departmental Officer: Chair, Philosophy Department, Chair, Philosophy Department. 2004 - 2007, July 1, 2004 - July 01, 2007

Departmental Committee: Chair, Coordinator, Philosophy Colloquium Committee, 2012 - 2014; Graduate student admission committee, January 2014; Graduate student admission committee, March 2013; Chair, Ad hoc review committee Y. Wilson, March 2013; Ad hoc review committee promotion Ferejohn, March 2013; 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: For Philosophy East & West, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Nous, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Ethics, January 6, 1984 - present

Service to the Professional Community: Advisory editor for the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2014 - present; Moderator for online blog, "What's It Like to be a Philosopher of Color?", 2014 - present; Review submitted entries for International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Review submitted entries for International Encyclopedia of Ethics. 2010, 2010 - present; Evaluated book manuscripts for Oxford University and University of Hawaii, Cambridge University Presses and 4 journals, 2008 - present; Reviewed applications for National Humanities Center Fellowship, Reviewed applications for National Humanities Center Fellowship. 2008, 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; Writing letters on tenure and promotion cases, 2001 - present; At large member of the Board of Officers, At large member of the Board of Officers. American Philosophical Association. 2015 - 2018, July, 2015 - present; Adviser to program committee of Eastern Division, APA, 2010 - 2013; Adviser to program committee of Eastern Division, APA, Adviser to program committee of Eastern Division, APA. 2010 - 2013, 2010-13; Visiting committee to the Philosophy Department of the National University of Singapore, Visiting committee to the Philosophy Department of the National University of Singapore. September 22, 2011, 2001, 2006, 2011; 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; Service to University, May 2014

Departmental Services: Colloquium Coordinator, September, 2009 - May 20, 2014

Other: Co-Chair, Duke-Kunshan Appointments, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1 April 2018; Academic Integrity Council, 2 December 2013; Liberal Arts for Duke Kunshan University, 30 December 2012; Faculty Council of Kenan Ethics Institute, 1 September 2010; Provost's Advisory Committee onAppointment, Promotion, and Tenure, 1 September 2010; Convener, Convener. Kenan Faculty Study Group. December 30, 2009, 2009 - spring 2013; Member, American Philosophical Association, 1972 - present; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Philosophy Department, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Philosophy Department. 2014 - 2015, 2014-15; Chair, Coordinator Philosophy Colloquium, 2011-14

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Moral Relativism and Chinese Philosophy, Chapel Hill Public Library, 26 October 2019; Constructive Skepticism in the Zhuangzi: “Doing Philosophy across Traditions: Its Hazards and Sought-After Rewards, Philadelphia, PA, 5 October 2019; The Body-Politic and Soup in Ancient Chinese Thought, Ravenstein, Netherlands, 29 May 2018; Soup, Harmony, and Disagreement, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 23 March 2018; Soup, Harmony, and Disagreement, Ottawa, CN, 14 October 2016; Soup, Harmony, and Disagreement, Stanford, CA, March 13, 2016; Relativism and Ambivalence between Relationship and Autonomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, March 11, 2016; "Relativism and Ambivalence between Relationship and Autonomy", University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, February 13, 2016; "Relativism and Ambivalence between Relationship and Autonomy, University of San Francisco, CA, December 07, 2015; "Dialogue in the Work of Michael Krausz", Bryn Mawr College, November 06, 2015; Dialogue in the Work of Michael Krausz, Bryn Mawr, PA, 6 November 2015; "Relativism and Ambivalence between Relationship and Autonomy", Union College, Schenectady, NY, November 04, 2015; Relativism and Ambivalence between Relationship and Autonomy, Union College, Schenectady, NY, 4 November 2015; Perspectives on Human Personhood and the Self from the Zhuangzi, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, September 18, 2015; "Feeling, Reflection, and Reasoning in the Mencius", "Modes of Reasoning: East and West" at the University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, July 10, 2015; Feeling, Reflection, and Reasoning in the Mencius, Bonn, Germany, 10 July 2015; "Institutional Structures and Idealism of Character", University of Hong Kong, May 15, 2015; Institutional Structures and Idealism of Character, Hong Kong, 15 May 2015; "Rediscovering Moral Beauty", University of Hong Kong, May 14, 2015; Rediscovering Moral Beauty, Hong Kong, 14 May 2015; "The Authority of Moral Beauty", Agnes Scott College, April 09, 2015; The Authority of Moral Beauty, Marietta, GA, 9 April 2015; "Relativism and Ambivalence between Relationship and Autonomy:" Keynote Address to 2015 Meetings of the South Carolina Philosophical Society, Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, March 27, 2015; Keynote Address: Relativism and Ambivalence between Relationship and Autonomy, Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 27 March 2015; Seminar discussion of my article "Integrating Philosophy with Anthropology in an Approach to Morality," led by Steven Lukes and Gabi Abend, NYU, March 09, 2015; "Relativism and Ambivalence between Relationship and Autonomy, Philosophy Department, Brandeis University, March 06, 2015; Relativism and Ambivalence between Relationship and Autonomy, Philosophy Department, Brandeis University, 6 March 2015; Seminar discussion of my article "Relativist Explanations of Interpersonal and Group Disagreement", New York University Philosophy Department Mind and Language seminar conducted by Paul Horwich and Crispin Wright, February 24, 2015; Seminar discussion of my article "Relativist Explanations of Interpersonal and Group Disagreement", February 24, 2015, New York, NY, 24 February 2015; A Case for Relativism Based on Ambivalence between Relationship and Autonomy, Bonn, Germany, 14 December 2014; “A Case for Relativism Based on Ambivalence between Relationship and Autonomy", Conference on the Coherence of Relativism, University of Bonn, Germany, December 14, 2014; "Reflection and Emotion in Mencius and Xunzi", Conference: "Moral Sentimentalism and the Foundations of Morality" at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, November 14, 2014; Reflection and Emotion in Mencius and Xunzi, Worcester, MA, 14 November 2014; "Reflection and Emotion in Mencius and Xunzi", International Conference for the Society of Political Thought: Comparative Ancient and Medieval Political Thought, Yale University, May 01, 2014; Reflection and Emotion in Mencius and Xunzi, Yale University, 1 May 2014; "On Learning What Happiness Is" Keynote Address, Minnesota Undergraduate Philosophy Society Meetings 2014, April 26, 2014; Keynote Address: On Learning What Happiness Is, St. Paul, MN, 26 April 2014; "On Valuing Disagreement", Philosophy Department, Macalester College, April 24, 2014; On Valuing Disagreement, St. Paul, MN, 24 April 2014; "The Authority of Moral Beauty in Xunzi", Rutgers University, Philosophy Department, April 11, 2014; The Authority of Moral Beauty in Xunzi, New Brunswick, NJ, 11 April 2014; "Moral Cultivation", San Francisco, CA, March 29, 2014; Moral Cultivation, San Francisco, CA, 29 March 2014; "On Valuing Moral Disagreement", Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, January 20, 2014; On Valuing Moral Disagreement, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, 20 January 2014; Keynote Address: On Learning What Happiness Is, Buffalo, NY, 21 July 2013; On Learning What Happiness Is, 18th International Conference of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy (University of Buffalo), July 21, 2013; Xunzi as Moral Craftsman, New Brunswick, NJ, April 04, 2013; Response to "Rethinking Equality" by Wang Hui, Tsinghua University, Durham, NC, March 22, 2013; "Xunzi as Moral Craftsman", University of Hawaii at Manoa, Feb 9, 2013; "What We Can Learn from Early Confucian Philosophy about Moral Development," given as Leys Lecture/Keynote Address to Society for Comparative and Asian Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, October 12, 2012; Leys Lecture Keynote Address: What We Can Learn from Early Confucian Philosophy about Moral Development, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 12 October 2012; Chinese Philosophy and the Development of Compassion, Hong Kong, 1 May 2012; Philomathia Lectures on Human Values: Chinese Philosophy and the Development of Compassion, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 15-18, 2012; Metaphors for self-cultivation in the Analects, Mencius, and Xunzi: adornment, craft, flowing water, and sprouts, Columbia University, February 24, 2012; Integrity Philosophy with Anthropology in an Approach to Morality, Colorado Springs, CO, December 15, 2011; How Does Xunzi Really Disagree with Mencius? How Their Differences Might Help Us Think about Human Nature and Morality, Singapore, August 12, 2011; "The Place of Love in a Good Life", University of Connecticut at Storrs, May 21, 2011; The Place of Love in a Good Life, Storrs, CT, 21 May 2011; "Reconsidering Mencius' and Xunzi's Conceptions of Human Nature in the Light of their Continued Relevance", Boston, American Philosophical Association Meetings, Eastern Divison, December 28, 2010; Reconsidering Mencius' and Xunzi's Conceptions of Human Nature in the Light of their Continued Relevance, Boston, MA, 28 December 2010; "What We Can Learn from Mencius on Human Nature and the Development of Ethical Virtue", 35th Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium, University of Minnesota at Morris, October 08, 2010; Keynote Address: What We Can Learn from Mencius on Human Nature and the Development of Ethical Virtue, Morris, MN, 8 October 2010; "Are Moral Conversions Possible?", Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, October 07, 2010; Are Moral Conversions Possible?, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 7 October 2010; "Mencius on Human Nature and Ethical Virtue", University of Glasgow, June 06, 2010; Mencius on Human Nature and Ethical Virtue, Glasgow, Scotland, 6 June 2010; Commentary on "Perceived Objectivity of Ethical Beliefs" by Goodwin and Darley, New York, NY, May 01, 2010; Integrating Philosophy with Anthropology in an Approach to Morality, Philadelphia, PA, December 05, 2009; Complexity and Simplicity in Aristotle and Early Daoist Thought, Bryn Mawr College, October, 2009; Relativism and the Explanation of Commonality and Difference, 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; Can Love Be Reasoned?, Philadelphia, PA, 28 December 2008; Pluralism and Ambivalence, Philadelphia, PA, 28 December 2008; "Cultural Pluralism and Moral Identity", Notre Dame, November 13, 2008; Cultural Pluralism and Moral Identity, Notre Dame, IN, 13 November 2008; "Teaching Comparative Ethics", National University of Singapore, April 22, 2008; Teaching Comparative Ethics, Singapore, 22 April 2008; Respondent to an panel on my book Natural Moralities at Pacific APA, Pasadena, CA, 20 March 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: Sanem Soyarslan, (September, 2009 - August 25, 2011); Andres Luco, (2008 - December 10, 2009); Kevin DeLapp, (January 6, 2003 - May 01, 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); James Abordo Ong, (April, 2009 - December 2014); Hagop Sarkissian, (September 01, 2005 -2008)

Publications

Books

Wong, DB, Moral Relativism and Pluralism (January, 2023), pp. 143 pages, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781009044301
Wong, D, Metaphors and Analogies in Classical Chinese Thought: The Governance of the Individual, the State, and Society, edited by Marchal, K; Wang, H (2023), Research Center for Chinese Subjectivity in Taiwan and Chengchi University Press,
Wong, DB, MORAL RELATIVISM (January, 2016), pp. 471-474, University of California Press, ISBN 9781138936478 (Excerpts from two chapters were selected for inclusion in Moral Disagreements: Classic and Contemporary Readings, edited by Christopher W. Gowans, (London: Routledge, 2000).)
Wong, DB, Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism (September, 2006), pp. 1-304, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195305395
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
Shun, KL; Wong, DB, Confucian ethics: A comparative study of self, autonomy, and community, vol. 9780521792172 (January, 2004), pp. 1-228, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521792172

Papers Published

Wong, DB, Constructive skepticism and being a mirror in the Zhuangzi, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 44 no. 1-2 (January, 2021), pp. 53-70
Wong, DB, Relational and autonomous selves, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 31 no. 4 (January, 2021), pp. 419-432
Wong, DB, Identifying with nature in early Daoism, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 36 no. 4 (January, 2021), pp. 568-584
Hourdequin, M; Wong, DB, A relational approach to environmental ethics, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 32 no. 1 (January, 2021), pp. 19-33
Wong, DB, Universalism versus love with distinctions: An ancient debate revived, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 16 no. 3 (January, 2021), pp. 251-272
Wong, DB, Soup, harmony, and disagreement, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 6 no. 2 (June, 2020), pp. 139-155, Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Wong, D, Review of Michael Ing, The Vulernability of Integrity, Dao: a journal of comparative philosophy, vol. 18 no. 4 (2019), pp. 641-646, Springer (part of Springer Nature)
Wong, D, Commentary on "Is it Good to Cooperate?", Current Anthropology, vol. 60 no. 1 (2019), pp. 62-63, University of Chicago Press
Wong, DB, "Making an Effort to Understand", The Ultimate Guide from Philosophy Now no. One: Ethics (November, 2017), Anja Publications
Wong, DB, Responses to Snow, Miller, and Seok, Dao, vol. 16 no. 4 (November, 2017), pp. 577-584
Wong, DB, The Excitement of Crossing Boundaries, Journal of World Philosophies, vol. 2 no. Summer 2017 (June, 2017), pp. 149-155, Indiana University Press
Wong, DB, Constructive Skepticism and Being a Mirror in the Zhuangzi, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 44 no. 1-2 (March, 2017), pp. 53-70
Wong, DB, Institutional structures and idealism of character, Philosophy East and West, vol. 67 no. 1 (January, 2017), pp. 25-36, Johns Hopkins University Press
Wong, DB, Early Confucian Philosophy and the Development of Compassion, Dao, vol. 14 no. 2 (June, 2015), pp. 157-194, Springer Nature, ISSN 1540-3009
Wong, DB, Responses to Commentators, Dao, vol. 14 no. 2 (June, 2015), pp. 225-233, Springer Nature, ISSN 1540-3009
Wong, DB, Conserving Nature; Preserving Identity, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 42 no. 1-2 (June, 2015), pp. 176-196, Blackwell Publishing Inc.
"Early Confucian Philosophy and the Development of Compassion", Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, vol. 14 (2015) (April, 2015), pp. 157-194
Hassoun, NJ; Wong, DB, Conserving Nature; Preserving Identity, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 42 no. 1-2 (March, 2015), pp. 176-196, BLACKWELL PUBLISHING INC
D. Wong, "On Learning What Happiness Is", Philosophical Topics: Special Issue on Happiness, vol. 41 no. 1 (2015 technically 2013), pp. 81-101
Wong, DB, Integrating philosophy with anthropology in an approach to morality, edited by Cassaniti, JL; Hickman, JR, Anthropological Theory, vol. 14 no. 3 (January, 2014), pp. 336-355, SAGE Publications, ISSN 1463-4996
D. Wong, "Xunzi as Moral Craftsman", in Contemporary Philosophy in the Age of Globalization, v. 3, Hawaii Conference, edited by Takahiro Nakajima & Tomokazu Baba (2014), pp. 19-32, Contemporary Philosophy in the Age of Globalization
D. Wong, "Chinese Philosophy: The Beginnings of Morality", Philosopher's Magazine, vol. 65 no. 2 (2014), pp. 76-83
Wong, DB, On learning what happiness is, edited by Minar, E, Philosophical Topics, vol. 41 no. 1 (March, 2013), pp. 81-101, Philosophy Documentation Center, ISSN 0276-2080
D. Wong, "Chinese Ethics" (5 year update in 2013), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2013)
Hassoun, N; Wong, D, Sustaining Cultures in the Face of Globalization, Culture and Dialogue, vol. 2 no. 2 (2012), pp. 73-98 (Journal date is 2012, but it has come out in 2013.)
Wong, D, Chinese translation of ’Reasons and Analogical Reasoning in the Mengzi’ previously published in 2002, edited by Xiaogan, L, The Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture, vol. 9 (2012), pp. 1-33, Research Centre for Chinese Philosophy and Culture, CUHK
Wong, D, Making an Effort to Understand, Philosophy Now, special issue on the new amorality no. 82 (2011), pp. 24-27
Wong, DB, Identifying with nature in early Daoism, edited by Nicholas Bunnin and Chung-Ying Cheng, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 36 no. 4 (December, 2009), pp. 568-584, WILEY, ISSN 0301-8121 (Written for a symposium at Oxford University in June 2006, Topics in Comparative Ancient Philosophy: Greek and Chinese.)
Wong, D, Emotion and the Cognition of Reasons in Moral Motivation, Philosophical Issues (metaethics issue of Nous), vol. 19 (October, 2009), pp. 343-367
Wong, D, Review of François Jullien, Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (April, 2008)
Wong, DB, Constructing normative objectivity in ethics, Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 25 no. 1 (January, 2008), pp. 237-266, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0265-0525
Wong, D, Moral Reasons: Internal and External, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 72 (2006) no. 3 (2007), pp. 536-558, ISSN 0031-8205
Wong, D, Attachment and Detachment in Daoism, Buddhism, and Stoicism, Dao, vol. V no. 2 (June, 2006), pp. 207-219
Wong, DB, Moral reasons: Internal and external, PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, vol. 72 no. 3 (2006), pp. 536-558, ISSN 0031-8205
Hourdequin, M; Wong, DB, A relational approach to environmental ethics, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 32 no. 1 (December, 2005), pp. 19-33, WILEY, ISSN 0301-8121
Wong, D, Zhuangzi and the Obsession with Being Right, History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 22 no. 2 (Spring, 2005), pp. 91-107
Wong, D, Relational and Autonomous Selves, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 31 no. 4 (Winter, 2004), pp. 419-432, WILEY
Wong, D, Crossing Cultures in Moral Psychology, Philosophy Today, vol. 3 (2002), pp. 7-10
Wong, DB, Through the moral maze: Searching for absolute values in a pluralistic world - Kane,R, PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, vol. 47 no. 188 (1997), pp. 413-415
Wong, D, Review of Integrity and Moral Relativism by Samuel Fleischacker, Ethics, vol. 104 (1994), pp. 882-883
Wong, D, On Care and Justice in the Family, Contemporary Philosophy, vol. 15 (1993), pp. 21-24
Wong, DB; Thomas, L, Living Morally: A Psychology of Moral Character., The Philosophical Review, vol. 101 no. 3 (July, 1992), pp. 695-695, JSTOR
Wong, D; Allinson, RE, Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical Roots, Philosophy East and West, vol. 42 no. 3 (July, 1992), pp. 527-527, JSTOR
Wong, D, Coping with Moral Conflict and Ambiguity, Ethics, vol. 102 (1992), pp. 763-784
Wong, DB, Commentary on Sayre-Mccord's "being a realist about relativism", Philosophical Studies, vol. 61 no. 1-2 (February, 1991), pp. 177-186
Wong, D, "Is There a Distinction between Reason and Emotion in Mencius?" and a reply to a commentary by Craig Ihara, Philosophy East and West, vol. 41 (1991), pp. 31-58
Wong, D, A Relativist Alternative to Anti-Realism, Journal of Philosophy, vol. 87 (1990), pp. 617-618 (abstract of commentary on Stephen Schiffer's "Meaning and Value," given at the 1990 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association).)
WONG, DB, UNIVERSALISM VERSUS LOVE WITH DISTINCTIONS: AN ANCIENT DEBATE REVIVED, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 16 no. 3-4 (January, 1989), pp. 251-272
Wong, D, Review essay on Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 49 (1989), pp. 721-732
Wong, D, ON MORAL REALISM WITHOUT FOUNDATIONS, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 24 no. 1 S (January, 1986), pp. 95-113
Wong, D, Taoism and the Problem of Equal Respect, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 11 (1984), pp. 165-183
Wong, D, Cartesian Deduction, Philosophy Research Archives, vol. 8 (1982), pp. 1-19
Wong, D, Leibniz’s Theory of Relations, Philosophical Review, vol. 89 (1980), pp. 241-256

Book Reviews

Wong, DB, Foundations for Moral Relativism, by J. David Velleman., Mind, vol. 125 no. 497 (January, 2016), pp. 284-290, Oxford University Press (OUP)
Wong, DB, Review of Families of Virtue: Confucian and Western Views of Childhood Development by Erin M. Cline, Notre Dame Philosophical Review (November, 2015)
Wong, DB, Kupperman, Joel J., Six Myths about the Good Life: Thinking about What Has Value, Dao, vol. 10 no. 1 (March, 2011), pp. 107-109, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, ISSN 1540-3009
Wong, D, Review of Reasonable Disagreement by Christopher McMahon, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, vol. online (March, 2010), University of Notre Dame Press
Wong, D, 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.
Wong, D, Review of Fieldwork in Familiar Places by Michele Moody-Adams, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 63 (2002), pp. 716-720
Wong, DB; Moody-Adams, MM, Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, & Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 63 no. 3 (November, 2001), pp. 716-716, JSTOR, ISSN 0031-8205
Wong, D, Review of Robert Kane’s Beyond the Moral Maze: Searching for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World, Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 47 (1997), pp. 413-415
Wong, D, Review of Richard Garner’s Beyond Morality, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 57 (1997), pp. 721-725
Wong, D, Review of The Conception of Value by Paul Grice, Philosophical Books, vol. 34 (1993), pp. 45-47
Wong, D, Review of Understanding the Chinese Mind: the Philosophical Roots ed. by Robert Allinson, Philosophy East and West, vol. 42 (1992), pp. 527-530
Wong, D, Review of Living Morally: A Psychology of Moral Character by Lawrence Thomas, Philosophical Review, vol. 101 (1992), pp. 695-697
Wong, D, Review of Quandaries and Virtues: Against Reductivism in Ethics by Edmund Pincoffs, Nous, vol. 85 (1991), pp. 116-120
Wong, D, "MacIntyre and the Commensurability of Traditions," (critical notice of Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre, Philosophical Books, vol. 31 (1990), pp. 7-14

Articles and Chapters

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
Wong, DB, RESPONSIBILITY IN CONFUCIAN THOUGHT, in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility (January, 2023), pp. 125-136, ISBN 9781032252391
Wong, DB, Feeling, Reflection, and Reasoning in the Mencius, in Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy, vol. 18 (January, 2023), pp. 517-538
Wong, DB, Mind (Heart-Mind) in Chinese Philosophy, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Zalta, EN; Nodelman, U (2023), The Metaphysics Research Lab
Wong, D, Constructive Skepticism in the Zhuangzi, in Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi, edited by Chong, K-C (September, 2022), Springer Nature, ISBN 9783030923310
Wong, DB, Constructive Skepticism in the Zhuangzi, in Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy, vol. 16 (January, 2022), pp. 639-660
Wong, DB, PRACTICAL REASONING IN EARLY CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, in ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PRACTICAL REASON (2021), pp. 113-125, ISBN 978-1-138-19592-9
Wong, DB, Perspectives on Human Personhood and the Self from the Zhuangzi, in HUMAN BEINGS OR HUMAN BECOMINGS? (2021), pp. 245-263, ISBN 978-1-4384-8183-8
Wong, D, Comparative Ethics: Chinese and Western, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Zalta, EN (2020)
Wong, D, Why Forgiveness is So Elusive, in The Natural Method: Essays on Mind, Ethics, and Self in Honor of Owen Flanagan, edited by Nahmias, E; Polger, T; Zhao, W (2020), pp. 193-225, MIT Press
Wong, D, Comparative Ethics: Chinese and Western Fall 2020 Edition, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Zalta, EN (2020)
Wong, D, Moral Ambivalence, in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Relativism, edited by Kusch, M (2019), Routledge
Wong, D, Hiding the World in the World: A Case for Cosmopolitanism Based in the Zhuangzi, in Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation, edited by Herschock, P; Ames, RT (2019), pp. 15-33, University of Hawai'i Press
Wong, DB, Relativism and pluralism in moral epistemology, in The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology (January, 2018), pp. 316-328, ISBN 9781138816121
Wong, DB, Dialogue in the Work of Michael Krausz, in Interpretation, Relativism, and Identity: Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Krausz, edited by Koggel, CM; Ritivoi, AD (2018), pp. 67-74, Lexington Books
Wong, DB, Chinese Ethics (substantive revision), in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Zalta, E (2018)
Wong, D, Confucian and Daoist Traditions on Love, in Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy, edited by Martin, A (2018), Routledge
Wong, DB, "Moral Sentimentalism in Early Confucian Thought", in Ethical Sentimentalism New Perspectives, edited by Debes, R; Stueber, K (September, 2017), pp. 230-249, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781108618762
Wong, DB, DIgnity in Confucian and Buddhist Thought, in Dignity A History, edited by Debes, R (June, 2017), Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780190677541
Wong, DB, Reflection dignity in confucian and Buddhist thought (January, 2017), pp. 67-72, ISBN 9780199385997
Wong, DB, Xunzi's Metaethics, in Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Xunzi, edited by Hutton, EL, vol. 7 (November, 2016), pp. 139-164, Springer, ISBN 9789401777452
Flanagan, O; Sarkissian, H; Wong, D, Naturalizing Ethics, in The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism (February, 2016), pp. 16-33, JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, ISBN 9781118657607
Wong, D, Growing Virtue: The Theory and Science of Developing Compassion from a Mencian Perspective, in The Philosophical Challenge from China, edited by Bruya, B (2015), pp. 23-58, MIT Press
Wong, D, Confucian Perspectives on Pluralism, Gender Relations, and the Family, in The Politics of Affective Relations: East Asia and Beyond, edited by Chaihark, H; Chaibong, H; Bell, D (March, 2014), Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
Wong, D, Cultivating the Self with Others, in Dao Companion to the Analects, edited by Oberding, A (March, 2014), pp. 171-198, Blackwell
Wong, D, Rights and Community in Confucianism, in Confucian Ethics: a Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy and Community, edited by Shun, K-L; Wong, DB (March, 2014), pp. 31-48, New York: Cambridge University Press
Wong, DB, Cultivating the Self in Concert with Others, in Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy, vol. 4 (January, 2014), pp. 171-197
D. Wong, "Reconciling the Tension between Similarity and Difference in Critical Hermeneutics", in The Agon of Interpretations: Essays Toward a Critical Intercultural Hermeneutics, edited by Ming Xie (2014), pp. 165-183, University of Toronto Press
Wong, D, The Different Faces of Love in a Good Life, in Moral Cultivation and Confucian Character: Engaging Joel J. Kupperman, edited by Chengyang Li and Peimin Ni (2014), pp. 97-126, SUNY Press
Wong, D, Response to Blum, Response to Geisz and Sadler, Response to Hansen, Response to Gowans, Response to Bloomfield and Massey, Response to Huang, in Moral Relativism and Chinese Philosophy: David Wong and his Critics, edited by Xiao, Y; Huang, Y (2014), pp. 183-278, SUNY Press
D. Wong, "Cultivating the Self with Others", in Dao Companion to the Analects, edited by Amy Oberding (Fall, 2013), pp. 171-198, Blackwell (This chapter is on the moral psychology of the Analects..)
Wong, DB, MORAL RELATIVITY AND TOLERANCE, in Moral Disagreements: Classic and Contemporary Readings (January, 2013), pp. 141-153, ISBN 9780415217125
Wong, D, Relativism, Moral, in International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by LaFollette, H (2013), Blackwell
Wong, D, Morality, Definition of, in International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by LaFollette, H (2013), Blackwell
Wong, D, Mencius, in International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by LaFollette, H (2013), Blackwell
Wong, D, Agreement / Disagreement, in Philosophy and Politics. Methods, Tools, Topics, edited by Besussi, A (2012), Ashgate
Wong, D, Reconciling the Tension between Similarity and Difference in Critical Hermeneutics, in The Agon of Interpretations: Essays Toward a Critical Intercultural Hermeneutics, edited by Xie, M (2012), University of Toronto Press
Wong, D, Agon and He: Contest and Harmony, in Ethics in Early China, edited by Fraser, C; Robins, D; Leary, TO (August, 2011), pp. 163-180, Hong Kong University Press
Wong, D, Complexity and Simplicity in Ancient Greek and Chinese Thought, in How should we live? Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antquity, edited by Schilling, D; King, R (August, 2011), pp. 259-277, DeGruyter, Berlin
Wong, DB, Complexity and simplicity in aristotle and early daoist thought, in How Should One Live?: Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity (July, 2011), pp. 259-277, ISBN 9783110252873
Wong, D, Confucian Political Philosophy, in Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy, edited by Klosko, G (July, 2011), pp. 771-788, Oxford University Press
Wong, DB, Relativist Explanations of Interpersonal and Group Disagreement, in A Companion to Relativism (April, 2011), pp. 411-429, WILEY-BLACKWELL, ISBN 9781405190213
Wong, D, How Are Moral Conversions Possible?, in In Search of Goodness, edited by Grant, R (2011), pp. 41-70, University of Chicago Press
Wong, D, Pluralism and Ambivalence, in Relativism: A Contemporary Anthology, edited by Krausz, M (August, 2010), pp. 254-267, Columbia University Press
Wong, D; Yang, TX, Translation of "Zhuangzi and the Obsession with Being Right" into Chinese, in Chinese Philosophy in the English Speaking World, edited by Jiang, X (May, 2010), Renmin University Press
Wong, D, Cultural Pluralism and Moral Identity, in Personality, Identity, and Character: Explorations in Moral Psychology, edited by Narvaez, D; Lapsley, D (2009), pp. 79-105, Cambridge University Press
Wong, D, Chinese Ethics, edited by Zalta, EN (2008), ISSN URL = .
Wong, D; Rovensky, TJ, 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 Hrubec, M (2008), Publishing House Filosofia
Wong, D; Haimin, TW, Translation into Chinese of "Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western" originally in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, in Philosophy, edited by Yu, J (2008), Renmin University Press
Wong, D; Haimin, TW, Translation into Chinese of "Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western" originally in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, in Philosophy (2008), Renmin University Press
Wong, D, 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 Littlejohn, R; Chandler, M (2007), pp. 331-349, Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
with Flanagan, O; Sarkissian, H; Wong, D, Naturalizing Ethics, in Moral Psychology: v.1, The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness, edited by Sinnott-Armstrong, W, vol. 1 (2007), pp. 1-26, MIT Press
with Flanagan, O; Sarkissian, H; Wong, D, "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, edited by Sinnott-Armstrong, W, vol. 1 (2007), pp. 45-52, MIT Press
Wong, D, Where Charity Begins, in Davidson’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement, edited by Mou, B (2006), Brill Academic Publishers
Wong, D, Evil and the Morality of Conviction, in Naming Evil Judging Evil, edited by Grant, R (2006), University of Chicago Press
Wong, D, Rights and Community in Confucianism, in Confucian Ethics: a Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy and Community, edited by Shun, K-L; Wong, DB (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
Shun, KL; Wong, DB, Introduction, in Confucian Ethics: A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community, vol. 9780521792172 (January, 2004), pp. 1-8, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521792172
Wong, D, Cultural Relativism, in Online Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, edited by Ethics, RCEFT; division, J (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.)
Wong, D, Dwelling in Humanity or Free and Easy Wandering?, in Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millenium, edited by Hershock, PD; Stepaniants, M; Ames, RT (2003), pp. 400-415, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press
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
Wong, D, Reasons and Analogical Reasoning in Mengzi, in Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Mengzi, edited by Liu, X; Ivanhoe, PJ (2002), Hackett Publishing Company
Wong, D, “Comparative Philosophy”, in Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy, edited by Cua, A (2002), pp. 51-58, New York: Routledge
Wong, D, Mo Tzu, in Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy, edited by Cua, A (2002), pp. 453-461, New York: Routledge
Wong, D, Reasons and Analogical Reasoning in Mengzi, in Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Mengzi (2002), pp. 187-220, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company
Wong, D, Entry on Cultural Relativism, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (2002)
Wong, D, "Comparative Ethics" and "Mo Tzu", in Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd, edited by Becker, L (2001), Routledge
Wong, D, “Moral Relativism” revised version, in Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd, edited by Becker, L (2001), pp. 1164-1168, Routledge
Wong, D, “Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Online, continuous, edited by Zalta, EN (2001), Stanford University
Wong, D, Fragmentation in Civil Society and the Good, in Civility, edited by Rouner, L (2000), Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press (Also published in Chinese, in Harvard Yenching Journal, Beijing, 2000.)
Wong, D, "Comparative Ethics," "Mo Tzu," and "Moral Relativism", in Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Becker, L (1992), pp. 185-859, New York & London: Garland Press

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