* Academic Essays — Bryan Van Norden

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Bryan W. Van Norden, “Davidson and Quine on Translation: The Challenge from the Global South,” Safundi (published online 20 November 2023), DOI: 10.1080/17533171.2023.2272467.
Bryan W. Van Norden, “Philosophy Is Useless: Except to Scientists, Businesspeople, Attorneys, Physicians, Clergy, Artists, Influencers, Activists, War Heroes, and Citizens of a Democracy,” unpublished text of public talk, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 21 March 2023.
Bryan W. Van Norden, "Mengzi and Xunzi: Two Views of Human Agency," in Thornton C. Kline and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds., Virtue, Nature and Agency in the "Xunzi" [Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2000], pp. 103-34. (Originally published in International Philosophical Quarterly, 32:2 [June 1992], pp. 161-84.)
Bryan W. Van Norden, "The Dao of Kongzi," Asian Philosophy, 12:3 (November 2002): 157-71.
Bryan W. Van Norden, "The Emotion of Shame and the Virtue of Righteousness in Mencius," Dao 2:1 (Winter 2002): 45-77. (Written for, and pre-published with the permission of, David Wong and Kwong-loi Shun, eds., Confucian Ethics: A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy and Community [New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004], pp. 148-82.)
Bryan W. Van Norden, “Mengzi and Virtue Ethics,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 40:1-2 (Winter-Spring, 2003): 137- 150.
Bryan W. Van Norden, "Competing Interpretations of the Inner Chapters," Philosophy East and West, 46:2 (April 1996): 247-68.
Bryan W. Van Norden, "’Few Are Able to Appreciate the Flavors’: Translating the Daxue and the Zhongyong,” in Journal of Chinese Studies 56 (January 2013): 295-314.
Bryan W. Van Norden, "Unweaving the 'One Thread' of Analects 4:15," in Van Norden, ed., Confucius and the Analects: New Essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 216-36.
Bryan W. Van Norden, "A Response to the Mohist Arguments in 'Impartial Caring,' " in Kim-chong Chong, Sor-hoon Tan and C.L. Ten, eds., The Moral Circle and the Self (Chicago: Open Court Press, 2003), pp. 41-58.
Bryan W. Van Norden, "What Is Living and What Is Dead in the Philosophy of Zhu Xi," in Robin Wang, ed., Chinese Philosophy in an Age of Globalization (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004), pp. 99-120.
Bryan W. Van Norden, "How to Add Chinese Philosophy to Your Introductory Courses," APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies 3:1 (Fall 2003): 15-19.
Bryan W. Van Norden, “Anthropocentric Realism about Values,” in in Chenyang Li and Peimin Ni, eds., Moral Cultivation and Confucian Character: Engaging Joel J. Kupperman (State University of New York Press, 2014), pp. 65-96.

Studying Philosophy Is Useless

Mengzi and Xunzi: Two Views of Human Agency

The Dao of Kongzi

The Emotion of Shame and the Virtue of Righteousness in Mencius

Mengzi and Virtue Ethics

Competing Interpretations of the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi

"Few Are Able to Appreciate the Flavors": Translating the Daxue and the Zhongyong

Unweaving the "One Thread" of Analects 4.15

A Response to the Mohist Arguments in "Impartial Caring"

What Is Living and What Is Dead in the Philosophy of Zhu Xi?

How to Add Chinese Philosophy to Your Introductory Courses

Anthropocentric Realism about Values

Davidson and Quine on Translation: The Challenge from the Global South