Associate Professor of Philosophy
California State University, Fullerton
Fullerton, CA 92834
(714) 278-7560
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§ Educational Background:
Ph.D., Philosophy, The University of Rochester, 1993.
Doctoral Dissertation:
On Individualism as A Theory of Content
Advisor: Professor Richard Feldman
The University of Rochester
M.A., Philosophy, National Taiwan University, 1984.
Master's Thesis:
On Wang Fuzhi's Notion of Reason in History
Advisor: Professor Zhang Yung-Jun
National Taiwan University
B.A., Philosophy, National Taiwan University, 1980.
§ Employment History:
Associate Professor: CSU Fullerton (Fall 2008 - )
Assistant Professor: CSU
Fullerton (Fall 2005 - Spring 2008)
Adjunct Professor: CSU Los Angeles (Fall 2004, Winter 2005, Spring
2005)
CSU
Fullerton (Spring 2005)
Associate
Professor: SUNY Geneseo (Fall 2001 – Spring 2005) (resigned due to relocation to California)
Assistant
Professor: SUNY Geneseo (Fall
1994 – Spring 2001)
Book:
An
Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: from Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism
To
purchase: Amazon.com
To
order an exam copy: Blackwell
Publishing
Review of the book at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Selected Articles:
1. Confucian Moral Realism. Aisan Philosophy Volume 17, Issue 2, July 2007, pages 167 - 184.
2. Book Review: Peter Carruthers, Consciousness: Essays from a Higher-Order Perspective. [New York: Oxford UP], 2005. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. April 2006.
3. "The Paradox of Evil in Tiantai Buddhist Philosophy", In Religion Compass, April 2007.
4. “The Status of Cosmic Principle (Li) in the Neo-Confucian Metaphysics.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy. September 2005. [pdf.]
6. “Physical Externalism and Social Externalism: Are They Really Compatible?” Journal of Philosophical Research, December 2001. [pdf.]
8. “A Nonreductionist's Solution to Kim's Explanatory Exclusion Problem.” Manuscrito, April 2001. [pdf.]
On-line Papers: (Comments welcome)
Upper-division Courses: (click for syllabus and handouts)
Writing Seminar: The First-Person Perspective of Consciousness, Introspection, and Self-Knowledge
Seminar: Truth and Reality
– Realism vs. Anti-realism
Seminar: Practical Reason
Seminar: The Nature of
Consciousness
Seminar: The Mind-body Problem
Seminar: Consciousness and the Self [Handouts]
Philosophy of Mind: 1996; 1999; 2001 [Handouts]; 2005; 2007 (my class)
Philosophy of Language: 1998; 2005; 2007 [Kripke's Naming and Necessity (I), (II), (III), PowerPoint] (Class 2007)
Metaphysics: 2000; 2003, 2006 (Class 2006 ) [Handouts & Powerpoint Presentation]; 2008 (new syllabus) [handouts] (Class 2008)
Asian Philosophy (Fall 2007 new syllabus) [My Class]
Lower-division Courses: (click for syllabus)
Critical Writing Seminar: The
Seat of Consciousness: Where Science and Philosophy Meet
Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2007 new syllabus)
Meanings of Life: A Multicultural Approach
§ Current Professional
Associations
American Philosophical Association
The Association of Chinese Philosophers in
North America [ACPA]
§ My Profession:
Thomas Nagel: (from The
View from Nowhere)
There
is a persistent temptation to turn philosophy into something less difficult and
more shallow than it is. It is an
extremely difficult subject, and no exception to the general rule that creative
efforts are rarely successful.
It is natural to feel victimized by philosophy, but this particular defensive reaction goes too far. It is like the hatred of childhood and results in a vain effort to grow up too early, before one has gone through the essential formative confusions and exaggerated hopes that have to be experienced on the way to understanding anything. Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.
Hilary Putnam: (from The
Many Faces of Realism)
Philosophers as an ideal community of inquirers:
It must, in short, be a community which respects the principles of intellectual freedom and equality.
§ Joy of My Life
Collin
Dillon
§ My View on Life
Wherein lies our life?
It is being manipulated by the cruel fate
into multiple shapes,
Even if one puts up all the struggles,
one cannot fight with fate.
Who'd have the extra heart
to be sentimental about it?
After pondering over life hundreds of times,
I decide to just hand it over to the wind
for the creation of the music of heaven.
After all wars are over;
after all chess games are finished,
Who still sets the boundaries?Let us be the faint trace of smoke,
drifting through the clear blue sky;
Let us be the light wings of butterflies,
fluttering by the silent flowers.
Let us laugh about how thousands of years,
would turn into oblivion in a split second.
Let us be a tiny dove,
or be a giant roc,
in concord with chance.
Looking back at the countryside,
I see the exuberant sea of spring.
Facing towards the human world,
I roam about freely,
Through hardships, through adversity,
I will not change my Way.____________ Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692) (my translation)
