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Journal Articles

  1. “Empathy for Non-Kin, the Faraway, the Unfamiliar, and the Abstract—an Interdisciplinary Study on Moral Cultivation and a response to Prinz,” Dao:  A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, forthcoming 09/2018, accepted 07/2017, peer-reviewed.

  2. “Between Nature and Person: What the neo-Confucianist Wang Fuzhi Can Teach us about Ecological Humanism,” Comparative and Continental Philosophy, forthcoming 10/2018, accepted 11/2017, invited paper.

  3. “Han Fei Zi’s Philosophical Psychology: Human Nature, Scarcity, and the Neo-Darwinian Consensus,” with Owen Flanagan, Journal of Chinese philosophy, 38(2), 293-316.

Book Chapter

  1.  “Han Fei Zi's Philosophical Psychology: Human Nature, Scarcity, and the Neo-Darwinian Consensus,” with Owen Flanagan, in Jon D. Carlson, and Arben Fox Russell, ed. The State of Nature in Comparative Political Thought: Western and Non-Western Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2013), ch.2.(Reprint from journal articles 3)

Translation (English To Chinese)

  1. The Enlightenment of Sympathy: Justice and the Moral Sentiments in the Eighteenth Century and Today, author: Michael Frazer, trans: Jing Hu, Nanjing: Yi Lin Press of China, 2016.

  2. “The Cognitive Science of Wu Wei,” author: Brian Bruya, trans: Jing Hu, The Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture, No. 9, 2011.

  3. “Studying Confucian and Comparative Ethics: Some Methodological Reflections,” author: Kwong-loi Shun, trans: Jing Hu, The Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture, No. 7, 2010.

Manuscripts in Preparation

​(all drafts and papers under review are available upon request)

  1. Moral Motivation in Mencius (draft)

  2. Moral Progress and Mencius (with Seth Robertson, accepted by Conference of Lost Voices at the Foundations of Ethics [Seattle, Univ. of Washington] and 2018 Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought and Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought [Storrs, Univ. of Connecticut])

  3. Moral Perception in Confucian Philosophy.  A paper on this topic is under review in an ethics journal.

  4. Strong Empathy, Weak Empathy —Two Arguments in Defense of Empathy’s Motivational Power (draft)

  5. Honesty Project, which investigate a type of emotionally engaged honesty.

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