Rutgers University · New Brunswick
Professor of Religion and Philosophy
Research in classical Chinese philosophy, Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy, and cross-cultural philosophy.
Selected work
Books
Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China
Oxford University Press
Contexts and Dialogue: Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind
University of Hawaii Press
The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China: China’s Freudian Slip, edited by Tao Jiang and Philip J. Ivanhoe
Routledge
Scholarship
Selected papers
"When Buddha Nature Was Not Buddha Nature: Fo'xing, Shen, and the Birth of a Universal Mind in Early Medieval China," in Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy, edited by Justin Tiwald. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2025
"Beyond Dust and Grime," in Aeon Magazine, 2022
"Detachment: A Trait-Reliabilist Virtue in Linji’s Chan Buddhism," in Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy, edited by Yong Huang, Bloomsbury, 2022
"Moral Therapy and the Imperative of Empathy: Mencius Encountering Slote," in Michael Slote Encountering Chinese Philosophy, edited by Yong Huang, Bloomsbury, 2020
