David Tien Philosophy – Publications

• “Philosophy and Psychopathy: Wang Yangming’s Theory of Oneness as Case Study” for inclusion in Philip Ivanhoe, Owen Flanagan, and Victoria Harrison, The Oneness Hypothesis: Beyond the Boundary of Self (Columbia University Press)*

• “Oneness, the Brain, and Unconscious Judgments in Moral Psychology and the Philosophy of Wang Yangming (1427–1529)” for inclusion in Philip Ivanhoe, Owen Flanagan, and Victoria Harrison, The Oneness Hypothesis: Beyond the Boundary of Self (Columbia University Press)*

• “Wang Yangming’s Moral Psychology and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy” in Justin Tiwald, ed., Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

• “Oneness and Self-Centeredness in the Moral Psychology of Wang Yangming (1472-1529),” Journal of Religious Ethics, 40.1 (March 2012): 52-71.

• (co-authored with Hagop Sarkissian, Joshua Knobe, John Park, and Jen Cole Wright) “Folk Moral Relativism,” Mind and Language, 26.4 (2011): 482-505.

• (co-authored with Christopher Brown) “Morality, Spontaneity, and the Art of Getting (Truly) Lucky on the First Date,” Kristie Miller, ed. Philosophy of Dating: Flirting with Big Ideas (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).

• “Metaphysics and the Basis of Morality in the Philosophy of Wang Yangming” in John Makeham, ed., Neo-Confucian Philosophy (New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company, Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy Series, 2010).

• “Warranted Neo-Confucian Belief: Knowledge and the Affections in the Religious Epistemologies of Wang Yangming (1472-1529) and Alvin Plantinga,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 55, no.1 (February 2004): 31-55.

• “A Great Pillar of the Chinese Church: Hermeneutic Mediality and Doctrinal Flexibility in the Christian-Confucian Thought of Xu Guangqi (1562-1633),” East Asia Forum, vol. 9 (Fall 2000): 90-118.

• “Resource, Repertoire, and Religion: The Social Reality of Tang Dynasty Scholar-Elites,” (ms. in progress)

• “Virtue and Knowledge in the Analects: Toward a Confucian Virtue Epistemology,” (ms. in progress)

• “Philosophy and Psychopathy: Wang Yangming’s Theory of Oneness as Case Study,” (ms. in progress)

*These two chapters were pulled from the volume just before it went to the printers because a feminist academic was offended by (her perception of) my past.