Presentations
- “When It’s Bad It’s Worse then You Think: Confucian Ethics and the Benefit of a Doubt” Wesleyan University (Middletown), Oct 2009.
- “Folk Metaethics: Objectivism vs. Relativism” (w/ Jennifer Cole Wright). National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Experimental Philosophy (Salt Lake City), July 2009.
- “Sins of the Brother” (w/ Tamler Sommers). National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Experimental Philosophy (Salt Lake City), July 2009.
- Commentary on Sin Yee Chan's “Xunzi, Mozi, and Laozi on Emotions and Desires”. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting (Vancouver), April 2009.
- "Confucius and the Effortless Life". Rhodes College (Memphis; invited talk), April 2009.
- "Cognitive Science and Early Chinese Moral Psychology". Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting (Chicago), March 2009
- Commentary on Michael Schulman's "How We Become Moral: The Sources of Moral Motivation". Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy (New York; invited talk), March 2009
- "Confucius and Contemporary Moral Psychology". Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy (New York; invited talk), December 2008
- "The problems and promise of situationism in moral philosophy". 4th Annual Midwest Conference on East Asian Thought (Bloomington), April 2008.
- "A social psychological defense of propriety". Ethical Theory and Moral Practice: A Conference on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Journal (Amsterdam), March 2008.
- "Rituals, Intuitions and Social Magic: Emotions and Automaticity in the Analects”. American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting (Baltimore), December 2007.
- "Cultural Differences in Attributions of Phenomenal States to Groups" (with Michael Bruno and Bryce Huebner). Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting (Toronto), June 2007.
- “The Folk Strike Back; Or, Why You Didn’t Do It Intentionally, Though It Was Bad and You Knew It” (with Mark Phelan). American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting (Chicago), April 2007.
- "Cultural Differences in Attributions of Phenomenal States to Groups" (with Michael Bruno and Bryce Huebner). Center for Human Science (Chapel Hill; invited talk), April 2007.
- “Rituals, Intuitions and Social Magic: Emotions and Automaticity in the Analects”. University of Hawaii, Uehiro CrossCurrents Philosophy Conference (Hawaii), March 2007.
- "關於道德自然主義哲學的方法" (On the Methods of Moral Naturalism.) 香港中文大學中國哲學與文化研究中心來訪研究生小型交流會, (香港), 2006 年 9 月.
- “Morality and Etiquette”. University of North Carolina Undergraduate Philosophy Club (Chapel Hill; invited talk), April 2006.
- Commentator. Panel Discussion on “The Confucian Virtue of “Yi” in Comparative Perspectives”. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting (Portland), March 2006.
- “From Fear to Loathing: Utopia and Violence in the Primitivist Documents.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting (Washington), April 2002.
- “Han Fei, Xun Qing, Laozi, and the Problems of Warring States Texts.” University of Toronto Department of East Asian Studies Graduate Students’ Conference (Toronto), November 2000.