Research

Articles

  • (Forthcoming). “Things and What is Beyond All Things: Clarifying the Relationship between You (有) and Wu (无) in Wei-Jin Xuanxue (魏晋玄学),” in Ziporyn and Walker (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Chinese Philosophy.
  • (Forthcoming). “In What Way is Truthmaking Truth-Causing? A Power-based, Causal Account of Truthmaking,” Erkenntnis (online-first). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-025-00981-1
  • (2024). “Names Exist when Carving Begins (始制有名): A Theory of Names in Daodejing (道德經),” Asian Philosophy 34(2), 136-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/09552367.2024.2299896
  • (2023). “Honors Flourishing in the Midst of Change,” (with Mimi Killinger, Robert Glover, and Jordan LaBouff) Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council 24(1), 33-38.
  • (2021). “Many Problems of the Many,” Synthese 199, 3101-3116. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02926-3
  • (2021). “A Challenge to the New Metaphysics: deRosset, Priority, and Explanation,” (with David Fisher and Timothy Perrine) Synthese 198, 6403-6433. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02468-3
  • (2019). “The Metaphysics of Dao in WANG Bi’s Interpretation of Laozi,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 18(2), 219-240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11712-019-09657-4

Recent and Future Talks

  • “The Power of Indecisiveness: An Interpretation of Wu-wei (nonaction) in Daodejing”
    • Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought, New York, NY, November 2024.
    • 18th Annual Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought, Bloomington, IN, April 2024
  • “Names Exist when Carving Begins: A Theory of Names in Daodejing”
    • Central APA, Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy panel, Feb 2024
  • “Revolutionary Flourishing in Honors Through a Research Learning Course” (with Rob Glover, Mimi Killinger, Olivia Kjellander, Abby Cadorette, Jacob Chaplin, Chappy Hall & Alex Morgan)
    • 58th NCHC (National Collegiate Honors Council) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2023.
  • “A Determinable-based Account of the Dao in Daodejing”
    • 23rd International Conference on Chinese Philosophy, Riverside, CA, June 2023
  • “Two Dogmas of (Contemporary Western) Metaphysics” (a version of “Simplicity as the Maximum Indeterminacy”)
    • Central APA, Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy panel, Feb 2022
  • “Simplicity as the Maximum Indeterminacy”
    • 17th Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought, April 2021
  • “Writing as a Unification of Big Hearts and Big Minds”
    • 55th National Collegiate Honors Council Annual Conference, Nov 2020, Dallas, TX. (accepted but canceled due to COVID-19)
  • “No Paradox of the Dao in the Laozi”
    • Central APA, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Session, Feb 2020, Chicago, IL.
  • “Cilvilization Spotified: Connecting the Reading List with a Playlist”
    • 54th NCHC (National Collegiate Honors Council) Annual Conference, Nov 2019, New Orleans, LA.
  • “A Metametaphysical Reading on Zhuangzi’s Qiwulun”
    • Central APA, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Session, Feb 2019, Denver, CO.
    • Pacific APA, International Society for Chinese Philosophy Session, Mar 2018, San Diego, CA.
  • “The Problem of Many Counterparts”
    • Central APA, Main Program, Feb 2018, Chicago, IL.
  • “Grounding Truth and Making True”
    • Eastern Division APA, Main Program, Jan 2018, Savannah, GA.
    • Nelson Fellowship Symposium, Apr 2017, Bloomington, IN.