Articles & Book Chapters:

"Religious Studies as a Biological Science" (58 ms. pages) (second author, w/ Joseph Bulbulia), (submitted)

"邁向經驗上可信賴的論理學：認知科學，德性論理，與中國早期思想德'不費力注意'" [A re-refereed and updated version of a 2010 book chapter, "Toward an Empirically Responsible Ethics: Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics, and Effortless Attention in Early Chinese Thought," translated by 马鼎当 into Chinese], 中國哲學與文化 [The Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture] 9 (in print, forthcoming 2011).

"Evolutionary Science and the Study of Religion" (lead author, w/ Joseph Bulbulia), Religion (in print, forthcoming 2011).

"Confucius Meets Cognition: New Answers to Old Questions" (second author, w/ Rolf Reber), Religion, Brain and Behaviour 2 (available on-line August 2011).

"The Prevalence of Folk Dualism in Early China" (lead author, w/ Maciej Chudek), Cognitive Science 35: 997-1007 (Summer 2011).

"The Situationist Critique and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics," Ethics 121.2 (January 2011): 390-419. [Selected as a target article for discussion on the Philosophy blog "Pea Soup"]

"Metaphor and Meaning in Early China," Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10.1 (Winter 2011): 1-30.

  “‘Of What Use Are the Odes?’ Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics, and Early Confucian Ethics,” Philosophy East & West 61.1 (forthcoming January 2011): 80-109. [To be reprinted in New Directions in Chinese Philosophy (ed. Cheng Chung-yi and Cheung Chan-fai), Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, early 2011.]

 

“Cognitive Science and Religious Thought: The Case of Psychological Interiority in the Analects,” in Mental Culture: Towards a Cognitive Science of Religion, ed. Dimitris Xygalatas and Lee McCorkle, London: Equinox Press, Cognitive, Religion and Culture Series (forthcoming).

 

“Creating Consilience: Toward a Second Wave” (lead author, w/ Mark Collard), in Creating Consilience, Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities, ed. Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard, New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

 

“Mind-Body Dualism and the Two Cultures,” in Creating Consilience, Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities, ed. Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard, New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

 

"Good and Bad Reductionism: Acknowledging the Power of Culture,” invited response to Joseph Carroll target article, “An Evolutionary Paradigm for Literary Study”, Style 42.2-3 (Summer/ Fall 2008).

 

“Toward an Empirically Responsible Ethics: Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics and Effortless Attention in Early Chinese Thought,” in Effortless Attention: A New Perspective in the Cognitive Science of Attention and Action, ed. Brian Bruya, 247-286. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2010).

“Neuroscience, Theory of Mind and the Status of Human-Level Truth,” in Neuroscience and Religion: Hierarchy, Brain, Self, Religion, ed. Volney Gay, Lexington Books (forthcoming)

“Consilience and the Status of Human Level Truth,” in A Vision of Transdisciplinarity; Laying Foundations for a World Knowledge Dialogue, ed. Frédéric Darbellay, Moira Cockell, Jérôme Billotte and Francis Waldvogel, 51-60. Lausanne, Switzerland: EPFL Press, 2008.

“Classical Confucianism (I): Confucius and the Lun-Yü.” In Routledge History of Chinese Philosophy, ed. Bo Mou, 107-136. London: Routledge, 2008.

"The Problem of Moral Spontaneity in the Guodian Corpus." Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 7.3 (Fall 2008): 237-256.

"Who's Afraid of Reductionism? The Study of Religion in the Age of Cognitive Science."  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 76.2 (June 2008): 375-411. Special issue of JAAR with companion piece, also accompanied by "Response to Cho & Squier" and "Reply to Cho & Squier".

“Collision with China: Conceptual Metaphor Analysis, Somatic Marking, and the EP3 Incident” (co-authored with Eric Blanchard and Lyn Boyd-Judson), International Studies Quarterly 51: 53-77.

“Crafts and Virtues: the Paradox of Wu-wei in the Analects.” In Contemporary Encounters with Confucius, ed. David Jones. LaSalle, IL: Open Court Press (forthcoming).

"Conceptual Blending, Somatic Marking, and Normativity: A Case Example from Ancient China." Cognitive Linguistics 16.3 (2005): 557-584.

“Conceptions of the Self in the Zhuangzi: Conceptual Metaphor Analysis and Comparative Thought,”
Philosophy East & West 54.3 (July 2004): 322-342.

"Conceptual Metaphor Theory as Methodology for Comparative Religion," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 72.1 (March 2004): 1-31.

“Virtue Ethics, the Analects, and the Problem of Commensurability,” Journal of Religious Ethics 29.1 (Summer 2001): 97-125.

“Effortless Action: the Chinese Spiritual Ideal of Wu-wei,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68:2 (June 2000): 293-328.

Feature Reviews

"Chinese Thought from an Evolutionary Perspective, a review of Donald Munro," A Chinese Ethics for the New Century: The Ch’ien Mu Lectures in History and Culture, and Other Essays on Science and Confucian Ethics. Philosophy East & West 57.3: 375-388.

“Why Philosophy Is Not ‘Extra’ In Understanding the Analects, a review of Brooks and Brooks," The Original Analects, Philosophy East & West 50:1 (January 2000): 137-141, 146-147

On-line Publications

“Let’s Get Clear About Materialism,” invited post to the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) blog, “The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere,” August 1, 2008.