TALKS & WORKSHOPS

1. “Honesty as a Relational Virtue,” Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America (ACPA), American Philosophical Association: 2018 Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, CA (March 28-April 1, 2018, scheduled)

2. “Wang Fuzhi’s Neo-Confucianism on Human-Nature Relationship--An Alternative to Anthropocentrism,” ISCP: American Philosophical Association: 2018 Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL (February 21, 2018, scheduled)

3. “The Moral Value of Sympathy,” Invited Talk, Renmin University, Beijing, China (11 October 2017) (in Chinese)

4. “Confucian Role Ethics and Empathetic Perception,” Main Conference of the Role Ethics Network (an AHRC-funded project), Senate House, University of London, UK (28-30 September 2017)

5.  “Empathy Beyond the Near and Dear,” Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
   49th Annual Conference, Peking University, China (10 June 2017) 

6. “Sympathy and Moral Cognition,” Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America (ACPA), American Philosophical Association: 2017 Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle, WA (13 April 2017)

7. “Empathy Beyond the Near and Dear,” Center for Comparative Philosophy, Duke University, NC (30 March 2017)

8. “Empathy Beyond the Near and Dear,” Works-in-Progress Brown Bag Event, Seattle University, WA (7 February 2017)

9.  “Sympathy for Non-Kin, the Faraway, the Unfamiliar, and the Abstract—an Interdisciplinary Study on Moral Cultivation,” Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America (ACPA), American Philosophical Association: 2017 Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore, MD (6 January 2017)

10. “Human Nature, the Cultivation of Sympathy and the Russian Doll,” Philosophy Colloquium, Washington and Lee University, VA (18 December 2016)

11. “Psychopathy and Moral Emotions,” Philosophy Club, Washington and Lee University, VA (9 December 2016)

12. “Reinterpreting Mencius 2A6 and 1A7: Sympathy for the Child in the Well,” Work in Progress Seminar, Duke University, NC (2015)

13. “Sympathy, Too Little or Too Much,” Graduate Seminar, Duke University, Durham, NC (2013)

14. “The Cultivation of Sympathy,” Dissertation Seminar, Duke University, Durham, NC (2011)

15. “The Science of the Conscious Mind,” Vienna University, Vienna, Austria (2011)

16. “Evolutionary Theory and Ethics,” Oxford University, Oxford, UK (2011)

17. “The Nature of Scientific Evidence,” Vienna University, Vienna, Austria (2010)