Department of Philosophy
28 Frost Street Humanities Building H311-G
Irvine, CA 92617 California State University, Fullerton
jeelooliu@gmail.com Fullerton, CA 92834-6868
(657) 278-7560
Ph.D., Philosophy, The University of Rochester, 1993. M.A., Philosophy, The University of Rochester, 1987. M.A., Philosophy, National Taiwan University, 1984.
Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Mind Chinese Philosophy Metaphysics
Philosophy of Language Robotic Ethics
Areas of Competence:
Epistemology
Meta-ethics (Moral Realism/Anti-realism) Moral Psychology
Western Humanities Chinese Buddhism
Doctoral Dissertation:
On Individualism As A Theory of Content
Advisor: Professor Richard Feldman The University of Rochester, 1993
Master's Thesis:
On Wang Fuzhi's Notion of Reason in History
Advisor: Professor Zhang Yung-Jun National Taiwan University, 1984
Distinguished Faculty Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, California State University at Fullerton, 2020
Andrew Carnegie Fellows Award, 2019
Senior Faculty Research Grant, California State University at Fullerton, 2015-6
Senior Faculty Research Grant, California State University at Fullerton, 2013-4
Outstanding Faculty Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities, California State University at Fullerton, 2013
The John Templeton Foundation Grant for Metaphysics, Morality and Mind: Penetrating the Themes of Neo-Confucianism. 2011-12. $73,600
Incentive Intramural Research Award, CSUF, 2011. $9,921
Project leader: The John Templeton Foundation Grant for New Projects in Chinese Philosophy, on behalf of the Association of Chinese Philosophers in America (ACPA),
$20,000, 2010
Summer Research Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, California State University at Fullerton, 2010
Outstanding Faculty Award for Service Activities, California State University at Fullerton, 2009
Junior Faculty Research Grant, California State University at Fullerton, 2008
Summer Research Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, California State University at Fullerton, 2007
Outstanding Faculty Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities, California State University at Fullerton, 2007
NEH 2006 Summer Seminar Fellowship (June – July 2006)
California State University at Fullerton Untenured Faculty Development Grants (Spring 2006)
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (CCKF) Scholar Grant for Sabbatical Leave (2002-2003)
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (SUNY, 2000)
The Presidential Summer Fellowship (SUNY Geneseo, 1999)
The Hurrell/McNaron Award for Faculty Paper Presentation (SUNY Geneseo, 1996)
NEH 1994 Summer Seminar Fellowship (June-August 1994)
Research Travel Grants, SUNY Geneseo (1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004)
Summer Travel Grants, SUNY Geneseo (1996, 1999)
University of Rochester Fellowship (Fall 1985- Spring 1990)
Ministry of Education of the Republic of China Scholarship (Fall 1980- Spring 1983)
Book Scroll Award (National Taiwan University) (1977, 1978, 1980)
Chair of Philosophy Department: (Fall 2017 – current) Professor: CSU Fullerton (Fall 2013 – current)
Associate Professor: CSU Fullerton (Fall 2008 – Spring 2013)
Assistant Professor: CSU Fullerton (Fall 2005 – spring 2008)
Visiting Professor: CSU Los Angeles (Fall 2004, Winter 2005, Spring 2005) Associate Professor: SUNY Geneseo (Fall 2001 – Spring 2005) (resigned) Assistant Professor: SUNY Geneseo (Fall 1994 – Spring 2001)
Adjunct Instructor: SUNY Geneseo (Fall 1993 - Spring 1994) Visiting Scholar: UC Berkeley (Summer 1996)
Visiting Scholar: The Graduate Center at CUNY (Summer 1994)
1/1/2017-4/1/2020
2015-current
2014-2018
1/1/2010 – 12/31/2012
President, 2010-12
Vice President/Treasurer, 2008-10
Secretary/Treasurer, 2006-08
International Oversight Committee, 2011-13
2011-14
President, 2002-2004
Vice President, 2000-02
Secretary/Treasurer, 1998-2000
Liu, JeeLoo (2021). Neo-Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality. (Translated into Traditional Chinese). Northwestern University Publishing, Xi’an, China; Linking Publishing: Taipei, Taiwan.
Liu, JeeLoo (2021). An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism. (Translated into Traditional Chinese). Linking Publishing: Taipei, Taiwan.
Liu, JeeLoo (2017). Neo-Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Liu, JeeLoo & Douglas Berger (Eds.) (2014). Nothingness in Asian Philosophy. London and New York: Routledge.
Liu, JeeLoo, Perry, John (Eds.) (2012). Consciousness and the Self: New Essays. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Liu, JeeLoo (2010). An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism. (Translated into Polish). Krakow, Poland: Jagiellonian University Press.
Liu, JeeLoo (2006). An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Liu, JeeLoo (2021). “How to Apply Xunzi’s Virtue Ethics to the Construction of Robotic Ethics” (in Chinese). Social Sciences (shehui kexue). 2021.4: 3-22.
Liu, JeeLoo (2020). “Zhu Xi’s Normative Realism and Internal Moral Realism.” In Yong Huang, et al (eds.) Dao Companion to ZHU Xi’s Philosophy. Chapter 36: 857-872.
Liu, JeeLoo (2020). “Slote’s Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind versus A Neo-Confucian Unified Theory of the Mind”. In Yong Huang, et al (eds.) Slote Encountering Chinese Philosophy. Bloomsbury. 7
Liu, JeeLoo (2020). “Why Must We Enter Emotions into the Equation in the Design of Moral Robots?” Taiwan AI Wise Actors Network
(https://ai.iias.sinica.edu.tw/why-must-we-enter-emotions-into-the-equation-in-the-design-of- moral-robots/).
Liu, JeeLoo (2019). “A Contemporary Assessment of the Four-Seven Debate: A Comparative Study of the Moral Psychology of Yi Hwang and Ki Dae-Seung.” Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture 31: 36-70.
Liu, JeeLoo (2019). “How did Xunzi Reconcile the Potential Conflict between the Deliberate Effort of Human Morality and the Objectivity of Moral Reality: Was Xunzi a Moral Constructivist or a Moral Realist? (in Chinese)” The Journal of Humanities (renwen zazhi). No. 5, 2019.
Liu, JeeLoo (2019). “Why Be Moral? Comments on Yong Huang’s Book on the Cheng Brothers.” Philosophy East & West. Vol. 69, No. 1: 269-81.
Liu, JeeLoo (2018). “Confucian Robotic Ethics.” Translated into Chinese by Sky Liu, et al.
Thought and Culture (sixiang yu wenhua), No. 22, 18-40.
Liu, JeeLoo (2018). “Can Confucian Moral Realism Desist Sharon Street’s Darwinian Challenge?” Translated into Chinese by Chen Yu. Thought and Culture (sixiang yu wenhua), No. 21. Feb. 2018, 157-71.
Liu, JeeLoo (2017). “Chinese B-Theory of Time and the Notion of Change.” Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 12:1, 72-89.
Liu, JeeLoo (2016). “Revitalizing Traditional Chinese Philosophy with the Analytic Approach: The Case of Philosophizing Confucianism.” Shenzhen University Journal in Humanities & Social Sciences (Shenzhen daxue xuebao renwen shehui kexue ban), 2016(1): 5-12.
Liu, JeeLoo (2016). Book Review: The Philosophical Challenge from China. Edited by Brian Bruya. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, MA, 2015. Pp. xxxi + 393. Metaphilosophy, Vol. 47, No. 3, July 2016.
Liu, JeeLoo (2015). “The Challenge of Teaching Analytic Philosophy to Undergraduates.”
Expositions Vol. 9, No. 2: 88-98.
Liu, JeeLoo (2015). “How Time Passes: Comparing Chinese Conceptions of the Passage of Time against Contemporary Philosophy of Time.” Confucian Academy 2015, No. 4: 106-21.
Liu, JeeLoo (2015). “In Defense of Chinese Qi-Naturalism.” In Chenyang Li, Frank Perkins and Alan K. L. Chan (Eds.) Chinese Metaphysics and Its Problems. Cambridge University Press, April 2015, 33-53.
Liu, JeeLoo (2014). “On WANG Fuzhi’s Philosophy of Principle Inherent in Qi.” (In Chinese) Thought and Culture, No. 15. 250-77.
Liu, JeeLoo (2014). “Cultivating Moral Self and Moral Personality—Resituating Neo- Confucian Moral Philosophy in the Context of Moral Psychology and Cognitive Science.” (In Chinese) Thought and Culture, No. 14, 68-90. October 2014.
Liu, JeeLoo (2014). “Chinese Qi-Naturalism and Liberal Naturalism.” Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, Vol. 1. No. 1: 59-86.
Liu, JeeLoo (2014). “Was There Something in Nothingness? The Debate on the Primordial State between Daoism and Neo-Confucianism.” In JeeLoo Liu & Douglas Berger (Eds.) Nothingness in Asian Philosophy, London and New York: Routledge, 181-196.
Liu, JeeLoo & Douglas Berger (2014). “Conceptions of Nothingness in Asian Philosophy.” In JeeLoo Liu & Douglas Berger (Eds.) Nothingness in Asian Philosophy, London and New York: Routledge, ix-xxx.
Liu, JeeLoo (2013). “The Two-Component Theory of Proper Names and Kripke’s Puzzle.”
Abstracta. Vol. 7, No. 2: 39-59.
Liu, JeeLoo (2013). “On How to Realize the Sense of Commiseration amid City Culture – A Social Sentimentalist Model (in Chinese).” Shenzhen University Journal in Humanities & Social Sciences (Shenzhen daxue xuebao renwen shehui kexue ban), 2013, No. 2.
Liu, JeeLoo (2012). “Moral Reason, Moral Sentiments and the Realization of Altruism: A Motivational Theory of Altruism.” Asian Philosophy 22(2): 93-119.
Liu, JeeLoo (2011). “Reconstructing Chinese Metaphysics.” Journal of East-West Thought, No. 1: 151-63.
Liu, JeeLoo (2011). “The Is-Ought Correlation in Neo-Confucian Qi-Naturalism: How Normative Facts Exist in Natural States of Qi.” Contemporary Chinese Philosophy 43 (1): 60-77.
Liu, JeeLoo (2011). “Consciousness and the Self.” In Liu, JeeLoo & Perry, John (eds.) Consciousness and the Self: New Essays. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-32.
Liu, JeeLoo (2011). “A Comparative Study of Zhang Zai’s and Wang Fuzhi’s Moral Psychology.” (In Chinese) The Journal of Social Sciences, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. No. 5, 2011, pp. 126-33.
Liu, JeeLoo (2011). Book Review: Ivanhoe, Philip J. Readings from the Lu-Wang School of Neo-Confucianism. (Translated with introductions) Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009. Philosophy East & West, 61:2, 2011, 388-91.
Liu, JeeLoo (2010). “Wang Fuzhi’s Philosophy of Principle (Li) Inherent in Qi.” In Dao Companions to Neo-Confucian Philosophy. (Ed.) John Makeham. Chapter 18. Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York: Springer, pp. 355-380.
Liu, JeeLoo (2009). Book Review: Liu, Liangjian 劉梁劍, Heaven, Humans, and Boundary:
An Exposition of WANG Chuanshan’s Metaphysics 天．人．際：對王船山的形上學闡明. Shanghai 上海, China: Shanghai Renmin Chubanshe, 上海人民出版社, 2007, 12+271 pages. Dao. Vol. 8: 1, 105-108, 2009.
Liu, JeeLoo (2008). “Philosophy of Mind.” (In Chinese) In Philosophy: A Volume for the Series of Western Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. (Ed.) Jiyuan Yu. Beijing, China: Renmin University Press, pp. 110-142.
Liu, JeeLoo (2008). “From Human Nature to National Prosperity: A Comparative Study on Mencius’ and Xunzi’s Views.” (In Chinese) Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Academic News, Vol. 36, No. 799, May 20, 2008, p. 3.
Liu, JeeLoo (2007). “Confucian Moral Realism.” Asian Philosophy, Volume 17, Number 2. Pp. 167-184. July 2007.
Liu, JeeLoo (2007). “The Paradox of Evil in Tiantai Buddhist Philosophy.” Religion Compass 1:3, 398-413. May 2007.
Liu, JeeLoo (2006). “Wang Fuzhi.” In The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Ed.) Donald Borchert, Macmillan Reference USA. 2006.
Liu, JeeLoo (2006). Book Review: Peter Carruthers, Consciousness: Essays from a Higher- Order Perspective. [New York: Oxford UP], 2005. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. April 2006.
Liu, JeeLoo (2005). “The Status of Cosmic Principle (Li) in the Neo-Confucian Metaphysics.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32:3, 391-407. September 2005.
Liu, JeeLoo (2003). “A Daoist Conception of Truth: Laozi's Metaphysical Realism vs. Zhuangzi's Internal Realism.” In Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy, (ed.) Bo Mou, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2003, 278-296.
Liu, JeeLoo (2003). “Wang Fuzhi.” In The Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy, (ed.) Antonio S. Cua, Routledge Publishing, 2003, 748-55.
Liu, JeeLoo (2002). “Physical Externalism and Social Externalism: Are They Really Compatible?” Journal of Philosophical Research 27, 381-404, 2002.
Liu, JeeLoo (2001). “Is Human History Predestined in Wang Fuzhi's Cosmology?” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 28:3, 321-337, September 2001.
Liu, JeeLoo (2001). “A Nonreductionist's Solution to Kim's Explanatory Exclusion Problem.”
Manuscrito, 24:1, 7-47, April 2001.
“Why We Need Emotional Intelligence in the Design of Autonomous Social Robots and How Confucian Moral Sentimentalism Can Help.” The Thirteenth International Conference on Social Robotics [ICSR], 10-13 November 2021, Singapore.
Invited Speaker: “Confucian Virtue Ethics for Artificial Agents.” Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Pluri-Perspectives. O.P. Jindal Global University in partnership with the United Nations in India. 24-25 May 2021.
Invited Speaker: “How to Apply Xunzi’s Virtue Ethics to the Construction of Robotic Ethics”. Fudan University. January 19, 2021.
Invited Speaker: “Must A Moral Sentimentalist Embrace Ethical Anti-realism? A Challenge to Simon Blackburn from the Confucian Perspective.” International Conference on "Simon Blackburn Encountering Chinese Philosophy, April 24-26, 2020, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Invited Speaker: “What Kind of Virtuous Robots Do We Want?” The 50th CSUF Philosophy Symposium, Past and Future in Chinese Philosophy, March 19-20, 2020.
Invited Speaker: “What Can We Learn from WANG Fuzhi’s Moral Sentimentalism?” The Chinese Conference on Wang Fuzhi In Celebration of his 400th Birth Date. Hengyang, Hunan, China. Oct. 28-30, 2019.
Invited speaker: “Huayan Buddhism’s Conceptions of the Realness of Reality: How Huayan Transformed from Subjective Idealism into Holistic Realism.” International Conference on Consciousness and Fundamental Reality: Lessons from Asian Philosophy, June 11-13, 2019. Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-Sen University, China.
Keynote speaker: “A Contemporary Assessment of the “Four-Seven Debate”: A Comparative Study on the Moral Psychology of Yi Hwang and Ki Dae-Seung.” The 27th International Conference of the International T'oegyehak Society. University of Social Science and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam. Nov. 16-20, 2018.
Invited speaker: “How does Xunzi Reconcile the Potential Conflict between ‘Goodness is Man-made’ and Moral Reality—Is Xunzi a Moral Constructivist or a Moral Realist?” The Seventh ‘Xin Zixue’ International Conference. East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. Nov. 9-12, 2018.
Invited speaker: “The Making of the Person and the Society: The Philosophy of Extension from the Virtue of Righteousness to Social Justice.” ISCP Conference on Harmony and Justice: The Making of the Person and the Society. Shaanxi Normal University. Xi’an, China. August 9-11, 2018.
Invited speaker: “Challenges and Opportunities for Cross-Cultural Understanding of Universal Value.” Workshop on Cross-cultural Hermeneutics in a Globalizing World. University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. June 18-21, 2018.
Invited speaker: “From the New Study of Chinese Philosophers (Xin Zixue) to New Chinese Philosophy.” [in Chinese] The Sixth ‘Xin Zixue’ International Conference. Gangneung- Wonju National University, Korea. June 26-29, 2018.
Invited speaker: “Slote’s Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind versus A Neo-Confucian Unified Theory of the Mind.” Conference on Slote Encountering Chinese Philosophy. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 16-17, 2018.
Invited speaker: “Moral Sentimentalism Grounded in Naturalistic Realism: Railton’s Humean Sentimentalism vs. Confucian Sentimentalism.” The fourth Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy, April 13, 2018.
Invited Keynote: “Confucian Robotic Ethics.” Conference on Creating a Philosophy for the Future. The University of Macau, November 16-18, 2017.
Invited speaker: “Confucian Value Realism.” Symposium On Chinese Philosophy: In Memory Of Jiyuan Yu. University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. November 3, 2017.
Invited speaker: “The Joy of YAN Hui: Must One Be Virtuous to Have Joy?” Rutgers University Workshop: Confucianism: Joy Along the Way. (Part of the Yale University project Theology of Joy and the Good Life). November 9-10, 2017.
Invited Distinguished Speaker: “Confucian Robotic Ethics.” International Conference on The Relevance of the Classics to the Modernity under the Conditions of Modernity: Humanity and Science. Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 5-7 October 2017.
Invited speaker: “Confucian Value Realism.” The Eighth Session of the World Confucian Conference (WCC). Qufu, Shandong, China. September 19-22, 2017.
Invited speaker: “Wang Yangming in Light of Pragmatist Metaphysics.” The 20th ISCP Conference: Chinese Philosophy in a Multicultural World. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, July 4-7, 2017.
“Can Confucian Moral Realism Desist Sharon Street’s Darwinian Challenge?” 2017 Singapore-Hong Kong-Macau Symposium On Chinese Philosophy, University of Macau, China. April 21-22, 2017.
Plenary Talk: “Metaphysics without Metaphysical Necessity: The Case of Neo-Confucian Metaphysics.” Plenary Session: Contingency in Contemporary Perspective. The Metaphysical Society of America, 68th Annual Meeting, Cambridge/Boston, MA, March 30—April 2, 2017.
“Now and Eternity: A Comparative Philosophical Study.” International Society for the Study of Time Sixteenth Triennial Conference. University of Edinburgh, June 26-July 2, 2016.
“The Loss of Personal Place: Late-Ming Neo-Confucians’ Sense of Self and Politics.” The 11th East-West Philosophers’ Conference. May 24 - May 31, 2016. University of Hawaii at Manoa.
“Are Shame and Disgust Really Ethically Debunking? In Defense of Confucian Sentimentalism.” APA Pacific Meeting, Main Program, San Francisco, March 2016.
“Naming and Reality: A Comparative Study on Chinese Philosophy of Language.” APA Pacific Meeting, Main Program, San Francisco, March 2016.
“Why Be Moral? Comments on Yong Huang’s New Book.” APA Pacific Meeting, Group Program, San Francisco, March 2016.
“How Time Passes: Pre-Qin Chinese Philosophers’ Conceptions of the Passage of Time.” APA Eastern Division Meeting, Group Program, Washington, D.C., January 2016.
“How Time Passes: Chinese Conceptions of the Passage of Time against Contemporary Philosophy of Time.” International Conference on Comparative Philosophy. Renmin University, China. June 26-28, 2015.
Invited Speaker: “Revitalizing Traditional Chinese Philosophy with the Analytic Approach: The Case of Philosophizing Confucianism.” Contemporary Explications of Confucian Classics, Classical Studies and Confucianism: An International Conference in Philosophy. Shenzhen University, China. January 24-25, 2015.
“Chinese B-Theory of Time and the Notion of Change.” Conference on Time and Change in China and the West, International Society for the Study of Time. June 20-22, 2014, Beijing, China.
“Grounding Objectivity in Confucian Ethics: A Defense of Confucian Moral Factualism.” The Atlantic Region Philosophers’ Association, 2013 Meeting: Pragmatism, Naturalism and Moral Objectivity. October 4-5, 2013, Halifax, Canada.
Invited Speaker: “Neo-Confucian Moral Factualism.” Rutgers Conference on “Nature and Value in Chinese and Western Philosophies.” April 4-5, 2013. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Invited Speaker: “In Defense of Chinese Qi-Naturalism.” International Interdisciplinary Symposium on “Conceptions of Reality: Metaphysic and Its Alternatives in Chinese Thought.” March 29-30, 2013. Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, Singapore.
Invited Speaker: “On How to Realize the Sense of Commiseration amid City Culture – A Social Sentimentalist Model (in Chinese).” International Conference on Confucianism and the Reconstruction of Contemporary Chinese Culture. Shenzhen University, China. January 18-20, 2013.
Invited Speaker: “Cultivating Moral Self and Moral Personality – Resituating Neo- Confucian Moral Philosophy in the Context of Moral Psychology and Cognitive Science.” International Conference of The International Dimension of Contemporary Neo- Confucianism. September 26-28, 2012. National Central University, Zhong li, Taiwan.
“Was There Something in Nothingness? The Debate on the Primordial State between Daoism and Neo-Confucianism.” APA Pacific Meeting, Main Program, Seattle, April 2012.
“From Idealism toward Realism: Xiong Shili’s Holistic Monism versus Russell’s Neutral Monism.” The 9th International Conference on Contemporary Neo-Confucianism. Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 2011.
“Reconstructing Chinese Metaphysics.” Plenary Session III: The Relevance of Asian Philosophy for the Mainstream Discipline and the Contemporary World. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP) 2011 Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 25- 28, 2011.
“The Dissemination of Chinese Philosophy.” Panel 20: Global Interdependence And The Dissemination Of Chinese Philosophy: New Works in The Field. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP) 2011 Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 25-28, 2011.
“The Is-Ought Correlation in Neo-Confucian Qi-Naturalism: How Normative Facts Exist in Natural States of Qi.” APA Pacific meeting, main program of Moral Philosophy, San Diego, April 2011.
Invited Speaker: “Neo-Confucian Qi-Naturalism: How Normative Facts Exist in Natural States of Qi.” Conference on Chinese Metaphysics and Epistemology, (Co-sponsored by Renmin University of China and the ACPA), Beijing, China, July 10-11, 2010.
Invited Speaker: “Making Sense of Chinese Philosophy: from Pre-Qin Philosophy to Neo- Confucianism.” The APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies. APA Eastern, New York, December 2009.
Invited Speaker: “Converting Asian Thought into the Analytic Context: The Case of Chinese Philosophy.” The Shalem Center, Jerusalem, Israel, October 2009.
Keynote Address: “Moral Reason, Moral Sentiments, and the Realization of Altruism.” The
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16 International Conference on Chinese Philosophy, Taipei, Taiwan. Summer 2009.
“Moral Sense, Moral Motivation and the Possibility of Altruism: A Comparative Study of Zhang Zai’s and Wang Fuzhi’s Moral Psychology.” Mini-conference on Neo-Confucian
Moral Psychology, The American Philosophical Association (APA) Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, Canada. April 8-12, 2009.
“From Realizer Functionalism to Nonreductive Physicalism.” Philosophy of Mind Session. The XXII World Congress of Philosophy. July 30-August 5, 2008, Seoul, Korea.
Invited Speaker: “The Moral Psychology of Zhang Zai and Wang Fuzhi.” Rethinking Traditional Chinese Ethics from the Contemporary Perspectives. May 15-17, 2008. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
“From Realizer Functionalism to Nonreductive Physicalism.” Philosophy of Mind Colloquium, American Philosophical Association Pacific Meeting, Pasadena, CA, March 2008.
Invited Speaker: “From Human Nature to National Prosperity: A Comparative Study on Mencius’ and Xunzi’s Views.” The 4th International Conference On Confucianism. December 2007, Beijing, China.
“Confucian Moral Realism.” The 15th International Conference on Chinese Philosophy, Wuhan, China. June 2007.
“The Path from Natural Emotions to Moral Sentiments: The Moral Psychology of Wang Fuzhi (1619-92),” ACPA group session, American Philosophical Association Pacific Meeting, San Francisco, April 2007.
“Confucian Moral Realism.” ACPA group session, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Boston, December 2004.
“The Status of Cosmic Principle (Li) in the Natural State of Being: A Comparative Study of the Neo-Confucian Metaphysics.” ACPA group session, American Philosophical Association Pacific Meeting, Pasadena, March 2004.
“The Rational, the Irrational, and the Practical: Donald Davidson’s Theory of Practical Reason.” Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, American Philosophical Association Pacific Meeting, Seattle, March 2002.
“Is Human History Predestined in Wang Fu-chih's Cosmology?” Symposium Paper at the APA Pacific Division Meeting, Albuquerque, April 2000.
“Is Human History Predestined in Wang Fu-chih's Cosmology?” In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Chinese Philosophy, Taipei, Taiwan, July 1999.
“A Nonreductionist's Solution to Kim's Explanatory Exclusion Problem.” In Proceedings of the New York State Philosophical Association [The Creighton Club], Vol. 144, March 1999.
“From Token Identity to Holistic Identity.” Tri-State Philosophical Association, October 1998.
“A Nonreductionist's Solution to Kim's Explanatory Exclusion Problem.” APA Pacific Division Meeting, Los Angeles, March 1998.
“The Two Component Theory of Proper Names and Kripke's Puzzle.” APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, April 1996.
“The Two Component Theory of Proper Names and Kripke's Puzzle.” The Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, February 1996.
“Putnam's Physical Externalism and Burge's Social Externalism: Are They Really Compatible?” APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, April 1995.
“A Description Theory of Proper Names and Kripke's Puzzle.” Tri-State Philosophical Association, April 1995.
“What Can We Learn from WANG Fuzhi’s Moral Sentimentalism?” Yuelu Academy, University of Hunan, Changsha, China. Oct. 31, 2019.
“Can Confucian Moral Realism Desist Sharon Street’s Darwinian Challenge?” East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, June 2016.
“Revitalizing Traditional Chinese Philosophy with the Analytic Approach: The Case of Philosophizing Confucianism.” (in Chinese) Hengyang Normal University, Hengyang, China, June 2016.
“The Current Development of WANG Fuzhi Studies in North America.” (in Chinese) Hengyang Normal University, Hengyang, China, June 2016.
“Can Confucian Moral Realism Desist Sharon Street’s Darwinian Challenge?” Fudan University, Shanghai, China, June 2016.
“Place without Borders: Progressivism of Place.” City University of Hong Kong, October 2016.
“Now and Eternity: The Daoist and Buddhist Perspectives.” The Chinese University of Hong Kong, October 2016.
“Confucian Moral Metaphysics.” Soka University. April 22, 2016.
“Zhang Zai on Cultivating Moral Personality: A Social-Cognitive Model.” Soochow International Philosophical Dialogues and Workshop on “Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology.” May 28th – 30th, 2012. Taipei, Taiwan.
“From Realizer Functionalism to Nonreductive Physicalism.” Academica Sinica, Institute of European and American Studies, May 13, 2008.
“Causation with A Human Face.” California State University, Fullerton, Colloquium. Spring 2008.
“From Realizer Functionalism to Nonreductive Physicalism.” California State University, Fullerton, Colloquium. Spring 2007.
“The Causal Relevance of Mental Properties.” California State University, Los Angeles, Colloquium. Spring 2006.
“Concepts of Consciousness in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind.” California State University, Fullerton, Colloquium. Fall 2005.
“Zhou Dunyi’s Philosophy Revisited.” Columbia University Neo-Confucianism Seminar, December 2003.
“Kim's Explanatory Exclusion Problem: A Solution.” SUNY Buffalo Colloquium, March 1999.
“Concepts of Consciousness in Contemporary Philosophy.” SUNY Geneseo Colloquium, November 1998.
“Physical Externalism, Social Externalism and Natural Kind Terms.” Graduate Colloquium, Institute of Philosophy, National Qing-Hua University, Taiwan, December 1995.
“Physical Externalism, Social Externalism and Natural Kind Terms.” Graduate Colloquium, Institute of Philosophy, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan, January 1996.
“A Description Theory of Proper Names and Kripke's Puzzle.” 1994 NEH Summer Seminar, CUNY, New York, July 1994.
“A Holistic Response to Individualism.” SUNY Geneseo Colloquium, October 1994.
2006 NEH Summer Seminar, “Mind and Metaphysics.” (under John Heil), Washington University in St. Louis, Summer 2006.
UC Berkeley Summer Research Seminar on "Mind, Body, Brain" (under John Searle). Summer 1996
1994 NEH Summer Seminar on "Reference: Language and Reality" (under Richard Mendelsohn), CUNY Graduate Center in Philosophy. Summer 1994.
Organizer of the 21st International Conference of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP), July 2-5, 2019. University of Bern, Switzerland.
Chair of session at an international conference on Science and Religion in East Asia, Seoul National University, Korea. December 2013.
Chair and commentator for “Memory, Consciousness and the Self.” APA Central Division meeting main program. New Orleans, February 20-23, 2013.
Commentator for Peter Carruthers, “Evolving Self-Consciousness.” Consciousness Online Conference 2012, February 17 – March 2, 2012.
Chair of Group Session: “Issues in Traditional Chinese Political Philosophy: Moral Cosmology and Theories of Just War.” ACPA (Association of Chinese Philosophers in America) group session at the APA Pacific meeting, Seattle, April 2012.
Commentator for Jennifer Lundin Ritchie (University of British Columbia), “Cognitive Science vs. Xunzi on Status and Authority.” ACPA (Association of Chinese Philosophers in America) group session at the APA Pacific meeting, Seattle, April 2012.
Chair of Main Program Session: “Symposium: Chinese Philosophy and Moral Psychology.” APA Eastern, December 2011.
Chair of session at an international conference on Science and Christianity in the Encounter of Confucian East Asia with West: 1600-1800. Seoul National University, Korea. December 2011.
Chair: Plenary Session III: “The Relevance of Asian Philosophy for the Mainstream Discipline and the Contemporary World.” Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP) 2011 Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 25-28, 2011.
Chair: Issues in Chinese Philosophy. ACPA (Association of Chinese Philosophers in America) group session at the APA Pacific meeting, San Diego, April 2011.
Commentator for Henrique Schneider (Fernfachhochschule Schweiz) “Emotion and Sympathy in Confucius and Adam Smith.” ACPA (Association of Chinese Philosophers in America) group session at the APA Pacific meeting, San Diego, April 2011.
Commentator for Weimin Sun (California State University–Northridge) “Zhu Xi on Gewu.” ACPA (Association of Chinese Philosophers in America) group session at the APA Pacific meeting, San Diego, April 2011.
Commentator for David Tien (National University of Singapore) “Like a Cat Catching Mice: Cognitive Therapy in the Moral Psychology of Wang Yangming.” APA Pacific Convention, San Francisco, April 2010.
Commentator for Siu-Fu Tang’s (Chinese University of Hong Kong) “The Heart-Mind’s Approval (ke) and Second-Order Desires.” APA Pacific Convention, Pasadena, March 2008.
Chair, “New Work by Philosophers from Hong Kong on Confucian Ethics.” The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America [ACPA], APA Pacific Convention, Pasadena, March 2008.
Chair, “Confucianism, Women, and Care Ethics.” The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America [ACPA], APA Pacific Convention, Pasadena, March 2008.
Commentator for Al Martinich’s (UT Austin) “Ideal Interpretation: The Theories of Zhu X
and Ronald Dworkin.” APA Eastern Convention, Baltimore, December 2007.
Chair, “Rethinking Zhu Xi (1130-1200) – A Representative Neo-Confucian Philosopher.” The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America [ACPA], Baltimore, December 2007.
Chair, “New Works on Chinese Philosophy from Taiwan.” The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America [ACPA], San Francisco, Spring 2007.
Chair, “The Buddhist Philosophy of Mind Meets Contemporary Cognitive Science.” The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America [ACPA], APA Eastern Convention, December 2006.
Chair, “Chinese Philosophy: New Reflections and Comparisons.” The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America [ACPA], APA Eastern Convention, Washington D.C., December 2005.
Commentator for Jonathan Weinberg’s (Rutgers University) “Wide Content and the Individuation of Thought.” The Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, February 1996.
Courses Taught at California State University, Fullerton
Special Topic Seminar: Moral Sentimentalism (Spring 2017)
Special Topic Seminar: Building Moral Character: Neo-Confucianism and Moral Psychology
(Spring 2013)
Special Topic Seminar: Consciousness and the Self (Spring 2009)
Philosophical Argument and Writing: Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory (Fall 2012) Philosophical Argument and Writing: From the First-Person Point of View: The First-Person Perspective of Consciousness, Introspection, and Self-Knowledge (Spring 2008)
Metaphysics and Epistemology Seminar: Truth and Reality – Realism vs. Anti-realism
(Spring 2006)
Metaphysics (Fall 2006; Spring 2008) Philosophy of Mind (Fall 2005-current)
Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Language (Newly designed course: Spring 2007) Meaning and Mind (Newly designed interdisciplinary course: Fall 2014, Spring 2018) Philosophy of Time (Newly designed course: Spring 2015)
Asian Philosophy (Spring 2005 – current) Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2005 – current)
Courses Taught at California State University, Los Angeles
Meanings of Life: A Multicultural Approach (Winter 2005, Spring 2005) Philosophy of Language (Spring 2005)
Theory of Knowledge (Fall 2004)
Courses Taught at SUNY Geneseo:
Seminar: Practical Reason (Fall 2003)
Seminar: The Nature of Consciousness (Fall 1998) Seminar: The Mind-body Problem (Spring 1996)
Critical Writing Seminar: The Seat of Consciousness: Where Science and Philosophy Meet
(Fall 2000)
Critical Writing Seminar: I Ching: A Chinese Philosophy Classic (Spring 2002) Philosophy of Mind (Fall 1996, Fall 1999, Fall 2001, Fall 2003)
Philosophy of Language (Spring 1998, Spring 2000, Spring 2004)
Metaphysics (Fall 2000, Fall 2003) Philosophy of the Arts (Fall 1995)
Chinese Philosophy (Spring 1999 – Spring 2004) Ethics (Spring 1994 – Spring 2004)
Ethics and Management (Fall 1993 – Spring 1997) Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 1993 – Spring 2002) Western Humanities I (Fall 1994 – Spring 2004) Western Humanities II (Spring 1995 – Spring 2004)
Others:
Seminar: Metaphysics, Mind and Morality: An Analytic Reconstruction of Neo- Confucianism, Summer Institute at National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan, Summer 2009.
Thesis Direction:
Student: Marnie Liebert
Honor Thesis: On Pictorial Representationalism (May 1996)
Student: Holly Kantin
Honor Thesis: The Mystery of the Mind: Dretske's Account of Mental Causation (May 1999)
Directed Study:
Student: Carolina Silva
Topic: Mind and Cosmos; Mind and the World (Fall 2017)
Student: Tamara Nguyen
Topic: Introspection and Self-Knowledge (Spring 2008)
Student: Zachary Feaselman
Topic: Zhang Zai’s Philosophy (Spring 2008)
Student: Holly Kantin
Topic: Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (Summer 1998)
Chair, Philosophy Department, 2017-2020.
The College of H&SS Faculty Awards Committee, 2018-19.
University Faculty Hearing Panel, 2017-18.
H&SS MCF Committee, Fall 2017.
Philosophy Department Scheduling Committee, 2016-17
Chair, Philosophy Department Assessment Committee, 2016-17
Philosophy Department Assessment Committee. 2015-16.
Philosophy Department Scheduling Committee. 2015-16.
Philosophy Department Personnel Committee. 2015-16.
Philosophy Department Personnel Committee. 2013-14; 2014-15.
University Faculty Hearing Panel. 2012-13.
Philosophy Department Personnel Committee. 2012-13.
Philosophy Department Alamshah Essay Committee. 2012-13.
Supervisor for Department Scheduling. 2011-12.
Acting Chair, Philosophy Department, 2010-11.
Supervisor for Department Scheduling. 2010-11.
H&SS Strategic Planning Committee, Spring 2011.
Philosophy Department Search Committee, Fall 2010.
Club Advisor for CSUF Taiwanese Student Association [TSU], 2010-11.
Philosophy Department Personnel Committee, 2008-9.
H&SS Research and Grants Committee, 2007-8.
Philosophy Department Assessment Committee, 2005-6.
Philosophy Department Assessment Committee, 2006-7.
Philosophy Department Curriculum Committee, 2005-6;
Philosophy Department Curriculum Committee, 2006-7.
Philosophy Department Search Committee for New Faculty, 2005-6; 2006-7.
Philosophy Club Advisor, 2008-9.
2009 Philosophy Symposium Faculty Advisor, 2008-9.
2007 Philosophy Symposium Committee, 2006-7.
Philosophy Department Library Representative, 2005-6; 2006-7.
Club Advisor for CSUF Taiwanese Student Association [TSU], 2005-9.
Philosophy Department Alamshah Essay Committee, 2006-7.
Philosophy Department Alamshah Essay Committee, 2007-8.
Executive Director, The International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP). 2017-2020.
Book proposal reviews. MIT Press. Polity Books.
Book manuscript review. Princeton University Press.
Category Editor, Chinese Philosophy, PhilPapers: Online Research in Philosophy. 2011- 2014.
Area Editor, Asian Philosophy, PhilPapers: Online Research in Philosophy. 2011-2014.
APA Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies, 2011-14.
Board of Advisors meeting, the John Templeton Foundation. Philadelphia, PA. October 2012.
Board of Advisors meeting, the John Templeton Foundation. Edinburgh, Scotland. July 2011.
Board of Advisors meeting, the John Templeton Foundation. New York, June 2010.
Oversight Committee meeting of the Science and Religion in East Asia Project. Seoul National University, Korea. December 2011, 2013.
Program Organizer, “Memory, Consciousness and the Self: A Buddhist Perspective.” APA Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies session. Main Program at the APA Central meeting, New Orleans, February 20-23, 2013.
Program Organizer, “Much Ado with Nothing: Conceptions of Nothingness in Asian Philosophy.” APA Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies session. Main Program at the APA Pacific meeting, Seattle, April 2012.
Program Organizer (with Huaiyu Wang, Georgia College & State University), “Issues in Traditional Chinese Political Philosophy: Moral Cosmology and Theories of Just War.” ACPA (Association of Chinese Philosophers in America) group session at the APA Pacific meeting, Seattle, April 2012.
Program Organizer (with Huaiyu Wang, Georgia College & State University), “Ancient Chinese Values in the Context of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology.” ACPA (Association of Chinese Philosophers in America) group session at the APA Pacific meeting, Seattle, April 2012.
Review of book proposal for MIT Press. 2011.
Review of book proposal for Polity. 2011.
Outside reference for tenure/promotion of Dr. Nicholaos Jones, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2012.
Outside reference for tenure/promotion of Dr. Xiufen Lu, Wichita State University, Kansas, 2011.
Program Organizer (with Huaiyu Wang, Georgia College & State University), “Contemporary Moral Problems from Chinese Philosophy’s Perspective.” ACPA (Association of Chinese Philosophers in America) group session at the APA Pacific meeting, San Diego, April 2011.
Program Organizer (with Huaiyu Wang, Georgia College & State University), “Issues in Chinese Philosophy.” ACPA (Association of Chinese Philosophers in America) group session at the APA Pacific meeting, San Diego, April 2011.
Program Organizer, “New Projects in Chinese Philosophy” (Co-sponsored by the ACPA and the John Templeton Foundation), APA Eastern Convention group meeting, Boston, December 2010.
Program Organizer, “Chinese Philosophy and Contemporary Philosophical Issues” (Co- sponsored by the ACPA and the John Templeton Foundation), APA Eastern Convention group meeting, Boston, December 2010.
Conference Co-Organizer (with Haiming Wen from Renmin University), “Chinese Metaphysics and Epistemology,” (Co-sponsored by Renmin University of China and the ACPA), Beijing, China, July 10-11, 2010.
Program Organizer, “A Critical Examination of Wang Yangming’s Theory of Liangzhi.” The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America [ACPA], APA Pacific Convention, San Francisco, April 2010.
Program Organizer, “Confucianism in the Context of Comparative Philosophy,” The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America [ACPA], APA Pacific Convention, Vancouver, April 2009.
Referee for The American Philosophical Quarterly. “The Paderewski Puzzle and the Principle of Substitution.” March 2008.
Referee for Philosophy East & West, “Rectify the Heart-mind as Affirmation of Self and Humanity – A Confucian Approach to Desire.” February 2008.
Program Organizer, “New Work by Philosophers from Hong Kong on Confucian Ethics.” The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America [ACPA], APA Pacific Convention, Pasadena, March 2008.
Program Organizer, “Confucianism, Women, and Care Ethics.” The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America [ACPA], APA Pacific Convention, Pasadena, March 2008.
Program Organizer, “Rethinking Zhu Xi (1130-1200) – A Representative Neo-Confucian Philosopher.” The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America [ACPA], APA Eastern Convention, Baltimore, December 2007.
Program Organizer, “New Works on Chinese Philosophy from Taiwan.” The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America [ACPA], APA Pacific Convention, San Francisco, Spring 2007.
Program Organizer, “The Buddhist Philosophy of Mind Meets Contemporary Cognitive Science.” The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America [ACPA], APA Eastern Convention, December 2006.
Program Organizer, “Chinese Philosophy: New Reflections and Comparisons.” The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America [ACPA], APA Eastern Convention, Washington D.C., December 2005.
Preparatory Committee for the Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, Spring 2002.
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Primary conference organizer for the 149
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Primary conference organizer for the 148
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Primary conference organizer for the 147
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Primary conference organizer for the 146
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Primary conference organizer for the 145
Creighton Club meeting, November 2003. Creighton Club meeting, October 2002.
Creighton Club meeting, October 2001. Creighton Club meeting, November 2000.
Creighton Club meeting, November 1999.
The Advisory Committee for the Western Ontario/New York Undergraduate Conference (in affiliation with SUNY Buffalo), 1998 – 1999.
Reviewer of a book proposal (The Companion to Analytic Philosophy) for Blackwell Publishing, 1998.
Reviewer of a book proposal (Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology) for Blackwell Publishing, 1998.
Outside referee for the renewal of Professor Eric Peng from National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan, 1997.
Assessment Coordinator for the Philosophy Department, SUNY Geneseo, Fall 2000- Spring 2001; Fall 2003- Spring 2004.
Excellence Award Committee, SUNY Geneseo, Fall 2001 – Spring 2002.
New York State/UUP Professional Development and Quality of Working Life Committee, SUNY Geneseo, 2000 – 2002.
All College Senate, SUNY Geneseo, Fall 2000 - Spring 2002.
College Executive Committee, SUNY Geneseo, Fall 2000 – Spring 2001.
Chair, Student Affairs Committee, SUNY Geneseo, Fall 2000 – Spring 2001.
Student Affairs Committee, SUNY Geneseo, Fall 1999 - Spring 2002.
All College Senate, SUNY Geneseo, Fall 1995 - Spring 1996.
Faculty Affair Committee, SUNY Geneseo, Fall 1995 - Spring 1996.
Philosophy Department Executive Committee, SUNY Geneseo, Fall 1996 - Spring 1998.
Advisor of the Philosophy Club, SUNY Geneseo, Fall 1997 - Spring 1999.
Ad Hoc Committee for the Asian Studies Minor Program, SUNY Geneseo, Spring 1998 - Fall 1998.