Papers
Selected Articles and Chapters
“The Zen Transformation of Ordinary Life into Buddhist Practice: Eating and Drinking as Exploration of Buddha-Nature,” in Moral Agency in Eastern and Western Thought: Perspectives on Crafting Character, edited by Jonathan Jacobs and Heinz-Dieter Meyer (New York: Routledge, 2025), pp. 63-84.
“Self-Cultivation Philosophy as Fusion Philosophy: An Interpretation of Buddhist Moral Thought,” in Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics, and Morality: Essays in Honor of Mark Siderits, edited by Christian Coseru (Cham, Switzerland: 2023), pp. 417-36.
“Murdoch and Buddhism,” in The Murdochian Mind, edited by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Mark Hopwood (London: Routledge, 2022), pp. 395-408.
“Meditation as Cultivating Knowledge-How,” in Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Meditation, edited by Rick Repetti (London: Routledge, 2022), pp. 161-73
“Hatred in Buddhist Thought and Practice,” in The Moral Psychology of Hate, edited by Noell Birondo (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), pp. 23-49.
"Buddhist Philosophy as a Way of Life: The Spiritual Exercises of Tsong-kha-pa," in Buddhist Philosophy: A Comparative Approach, edited by Steven M. Emmanuel (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), pp. 11-28.
"Buddhist Moral Thought and Western Moral Philosophy," in A Mirror is for Reflection: Understanding Buddhist Ethics, edited by Jake H. Davis (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 53-69.
"Why the Buddha Did Not Discuss 'the Problem of Free Will and Determinism'," in Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will: Agentless Agency?, edited by RIck Repetti (London: Routledge, 2016), 11-21.
"Buddhist Understandings of Well-Being," in the Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Well-Being, edited by Guy Fletcher (London: Routledge, 2015), 70-80.
"Moral Relativism" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (last update 10 March 2021). This can be found HERE.
"Naturalism, Relativism and the Authority of Morality," in Moral Relativism and Chinese Philosophy: David Wong and His Critics, edited by Yang Xiao and Yong Huang (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2014), 103-26. Information about this book may be found HERE.
"Moral Virtue and the Epistemology of Disagreement," Philosophical Topics, Vol. 38 (2013), 39-57. Abstract.
"Ethical Thought in Indian Buddhism," in A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy, edited by Steven Emmanuel (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 429-51. Information about this book may be found HERE.
"Moral Relativism and Virtue Ethics," in A Companion to Relativism, edited by Steven D. Hales (Meldon, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 391-410. Information about this book may be found HERE.
"Medical Analogies in Buddhist and Hellenistic Thought: Tranquility and Anger," in Philosophy as Therapeia, edited by Claire Carlisle and Jonardon Ganeri (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 11-33. Abstract.
"Virtue and Nature," Social Philosophy & Policy, Vol. 25 (2008), 28-55. Abstract and Article.
"Standing up to Terrorists: Buddhism, Human RIghts, and Self-Respect," in Philosophy and Religion in Times of Terror, edited by Douglas Allen (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books), 101-21.
"A Priori Refutations of Disagreement Arguments against Moral Objectivity: Why Experience Matters," Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 38 (2004), 141-57
"Practical Identities and Autonomy: Korsgaard's Reformation of Kant's Moral Philosophy," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 64 (2002), 546-70. Abstract.
"Moral Theory, Moral Dilemmas, and Moral Responsibilities," in Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theory, edited by H.E. Mason (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 199-215.
"Moral Dilemmas and Prescriptivism," American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 26 (1989), 187-97. Abstract.
