Justin Tiwald |
Assistant Professor
Philosophy Department
San Francisco State University
Education:
Ph.D. in Social Thought, University of Chicago, 2006.
Completed all course requirements
for a Ph.D. in Philosophy, and nearly
all requirements
for Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Visiting graduate student in Philosophy, University of Michigan, Spring-Fall
2001.
B.A. in Political Philosophy, Carleton College, 1997.
Employment:
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University,
fall 2006 - present.
Areas of Specialization:
Chinese philosophy and religion, ethics (especially normative ethics,
moral
psychology, and welfare theory), political philosophy
(historical and contemporary).
Areas of Competence:
Modern Western philosophy, ancient Greek philosophy, philosophy of
emotion,
Indian philosophy
and religion, classical Chinese language & literature.
Publications:
Edited Volumes:
Neo-Confucian Moral Psychology, supplementary volume of Journal of Chinese
Philosophy, co-edited with Chung-ying Cheng (forthcoming in 2011).
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Confucianism and Human Rights,” Routledge International Handbook of Human
Rights, Thomas Cushman, ed. (Routledge, forthcoming).
“Is Sympathy Naïve? Dai Zhen on the Use of Shu to Track Well-Being,”
Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously: Contemporary Theories and
Applications,
YU Kam-por, Julia Tao, and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds.
(SUNY, forthcoming in October 2010).
“Dai Zhen on Human Nature and Moral Cultivation,” in The Dao Companion
to Neo-Confucian
Philosophy (Springer, forthcoming in April 2010).
“Dai Zhen on Sympathetic Concern,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 37.1
(March 2010).
“A Right of Rebellion in the Mengzi?” Dao, 7.3 (Fall 2008) (winner of journal's
best essay award).
Other Publications:
Review of Bai Tongdong 白彤东, A New Mission for an Old State: Classical
Confucian Political Philosophy in a Contemporary and Comparative Context
旧邦新命:古今中西参照下的古典儒家政治哲学 (Beijing University Press,
2009) in Philosophy East and West, 61.3 (forthcoming in July 2011).
Review of Philip J. Ivanhoe, Readings from the Lu-Wang School of Neo-
Confucianism (Hackett, 2009), in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,
September 2009.
“A Case for Chinese Philosophy,” Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American
Philosophers and Philosophies 8.1 (Fall 2008).
Review of Daniel Bell, Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an
East Asian Context (Princeton University Press, 2006), in Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews, January 2007.
“Dai Zhen”
in The Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, revised September
2009, originally published in June 2006.
Dissertation:
Acquiring “Feelings that Do Not Err”: Moral Deliberation
and the
Sympathetic Point of View in the Ethics of Dai
Zhen
Committee: P.J. Ivanhoe, Martha
Nussbaum, A.C. Yu.
Presentations:
“A Right of Rebellion in the Mengzi?” and responses to commentators/critics,
Dao Best Essay Author-Meets-Critics Panel, Eastern Division Meeting of
the American Philosophical Association, New York, December 2009.
Commentators: Tongdong Bai, Chad Flanders, A.P. Martinich.
“New Directions in Confucian Philosophy,” Bay Area Comparative
Philosophy Conference at the Center for Comparative Philosophy, San
Jose State University, April 2009.
“Self-Love, Sympathy, and Virtue: Dai Zhen's Defense of Self-Interest,”
APA Pacific Division Mini-Conference on Neo-Confucian Moral
Psychology, April 2009.
“Neo-Confucian Life Fulfillment and the Moral Considerability of Animals,”
Conference on virtue ethics and Chinese philosophy, University of
Oregon, March 2008.
“A Euthyphro Problem in Neo-Confucian Welfare Theory,” Eastern
Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Baltimore,
December 2007.
“Rights and Remedies in Confucian Political Thought,” Conference of the
Association for Political Theory, University of Western Ontario, London,
October 2007.
“Entitlements, Duties, and ‘Rights’ in the Mengzi,” Western Conference of
the Association for Asian Studies, September 2007.
“Confucian ‘Rights’ without Confucian Remedies,” Annual Conference of
the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Pacific Grove (CA),
June 2007.
“Dai Zhen's Defense of Self-Interest,” Committee on Social Thought,
University of Chicago, April 2007.
“Virtue Ethics, Neo-Confucianism, and the Problem of Moralizing the
Human
Good,” Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical
Association, Chicago, April 2007.
“The Neo-Confucian Appeal to Heaven,” West Coast Chinese Philosophy
Workshop, San Francisco State University, November 2006.
“Moral Deliberation and the Sympathetic Point of View in the
Ethics of Dai
Zhen,” Martin Marty Center for the Advanced
Study of Religion,
University of Chicago, May 2006.
“Dai Zhen on Zhong and Shu: How the Confucian
Moral Order is ‘Bound
Together’” Rethinking Traditional China Workshop,
University of
Chicago, March 2006.
“Shu as a Way of Valuing Others: Dai Zhen on Sympathetic
Motives,”
Conference on Neo-Confucianism at the Mansfield
Freeman Center for
East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University, February 2006.
“Dai Zhen on the Informed Desire Theory of Well-being: The
Neo-
Confucian Turn,” International Society
for Chinese Philosophy
Conference, University of New South Wales, July
2005.
“Dai Zhen on the Need for a Theory of Moral Deliberation,”
Early Modern
East Asia Workshop, University of Chicago,
January 2005.
“Dai Zhen’s Theory of Moral Reasoning” 
Departmental Lecture
for the International Chinese
Language Program
at National Taiwan University,
March 2003.
Awards and Honors:
Dao Annual Best Essay Award, 2008
APA Mini-conference Grant, 2008
Vice President’s Assigned Time Awards, Spring 2007, Spring 2009
Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-06
Martin Marty Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-06
Blakemore Fellowship for language study in Taiwan, 2002-03
Earhart Fellowships, 1998-99 and 1999-2000
FLAS Fellowship for summer study in China, 1999
Languages:
Modern Chinese (excellent reading and speaking knowledge)
Classical Chinese (excellent reading knowledge)
German (some reading knowledge)
Japanese (some reading knowledge)
References:
Ivanhoe, Philip J.
Reader-Professor of Philosophy
City University of Hong Kong
E-mail: aiwenhe1954 “at” yahoo.com
Nussbaum, Martha
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics
University of Chicago
Email: martha_nussbaum “at” law.uchicago.edu
Yu, Anthony C.
Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities
and
Professor in Divinity, East Asian Languages
and Civilizations, and the
Committee on Social Thought
University of Chicago
Email: acyu “at” midway.uchicago.edu
Professional Associations:
American Philosophical Association
International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese & Western Philosophy
(Secretary and Treasurer)
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America
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