Bryan W. Van Norden April 18, 2015 Office Phone: (845) 437-5530 Vassar College Box 310 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0310 Email: brvannorden@vassar.edu Education o Ph.D., Stanford University, Philosophy, conferred September 26, 1991. o B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy, magna cum laude, May, 1985. Languages: Classical Chinese (excellent), Mandarin Chinese (HSK 5 Certified), Japanese (fair reading), Classical Greek (fair reading). Employment o 2008-present: Full Professor, Philosophy Department (Chair 2010-2013); Chinese and Japanese Department (Chair, 2008-2010), Vassar College. o 2014: Visiting Scholar, College of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. o 2001-2007: Associate Professor, Philosophy Department; Chinese and Japanese Department, Vassar College. o 2005: Visiting Scholar, Academia Sinica, Taibei, Taiwan. o 1995-2001: Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department and Asian Studies Program, Vassar College. o 1994-1995: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Northern Iowa. o 1991-1993: Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Vermont. o 1990-1991: Lecturer, Stanford University, "Cultures, Ideas and Values" (year-long, multicultural great books course). Fellowships and Awards o Hanyu shuiping kaoshi (HSK), Level 5 Certified, 1 February 2015, No. H51502004896. o Fulbright Grant, 2005 o National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, 2005. o Vassar College Reseach Grant, summer 1998. 1 o Chiang Ching-kuo Fellowship, summer 1993. o Stanford Center for East Asian Studies Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, summer 1989. o Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1985 cohort. Service to the Profession and Major College Service o Chair, Assessment Committee, 2013-2014. o Chair, Department of Philosophy, 2010-2013. o Transitions program, 2012-2013. o Chair, Department of Chinese & Japanese, 2008-2010. o Member, Vassar College Library Committee, 2007-2010 o Member, Vassar College Research Committee, Spring 2007. o Founding member, Department of Chinese & Japanese, Vassar College. o Member, Advisory Board, Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy, City University of Hong Kong, 2013-present. o Member, Advisory Board, The Philosophical Gourmet Report, 2008-present (http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com). o Chair and organizer, Panel on the Contemporary Relevance of Chinese Philosophy, main program of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, December 28, 2005, New York, NY. o Member, American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Asian and AsianAmerican Philosophers and Philosophies, 2003-2006. o Chair and organizer, Panel on Approaches to Neo-Confucian Metaphysics, main program of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, December 2001, Atlanta, GA. o Member, American Philosophical Association Advisory Committee on Non-Western Philosophy, 2000-2003. o Fellowship and grant referee: National Endowment for the Humanties; National Humanities Center. o Journal referee: Confluence; Dao; History of Philosophy Quarterly; International Philosophical Quarterly; Journal of Philosophical Research; Journal of Religious Ethics; Philosophy East and West o Book referee: Brill Academic Publishing; Columbia University Press; Cornell University Press; 2 Georgetown University Press; Hackett Publishing; Harvard University Press; Oxford University Press; Palgrave Publishing; Princeton University Press; Routledge Publishing; State University of New York Press; University of Hawaii Press; Wadsworth Publishing; Wiley-Blackwell. o External tenure/promotion referee: Loyola Marymount University; National University of Singapore; San Francisco State University; University of California at Los Angeles; University of Northern Iowa; University of Southern California; Wesleyan University. Books o Co-editor (with Justin Tiwald) and contributor, Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy: Han to the Twentieth Century (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2014). o Author, Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2011). o Translator and commentator, The Essential Mengzi: Selected Passages with Traditional Commentary (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2009). o Translator and commentator, Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2008). o Author, Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007). o Editor and contributor, Confucius and the Analects: New Essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). o Co-editor (with P.J. Ivanhoe) and contributor, Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, reprint nd (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2003); revised 2 ed. (2005). o Editor, The Ways of Confucianism: Investigations in Chinese Philosophy, by David S. Nivison (Chicago: Open Court Press, 1996). Chinese translation published as 儒家之道 : 中国哲学之探 讨 (Nanjing : Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2006). Articles and Book Chapters o “Wang Yangming,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), <URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2014/entries/wang-yangming/>. o "Mencius", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2014/entries/mencius/> o "Anthropocentric Realism about Values,” 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. o "Toward a Synthesis of Confucianism and Aristotelianism," in Stephen C. Angle and Michael Slote, eds., Virtue Ethics and Confucianism (New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 56-65. o "’Few Are Able to Appreciate the Flavors’: Translating the Daxue and the Zhongyong,” in Journal of Chinese Studies 56 (January 2013): 295-314. 3 o "Han Feizi and Confucianism: Toward a Synthesis," in Paul R. Goldin, ed., Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei (Springer, 2013): 135-145. o "Response to Angle and Slote," Dao 8:3 (September 2009): 305-309. (Response to two sets of comments on my Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy, see above.) o "Three Questions about the Crisis in Chinese Philosophy," APA Newsletter on Asian/Asian American Philosophers and Philosophy, 8:1 (Fall 2008): 3-6. (Available online at http://tinyurl.com/low9yv .) o "On 'Humane Love' and 'Kinship Love,'" Dao (Symposium: Filial Piety, Part 2), 7:2 (Summer 2008): 125-129. o Translator, "On the White Horse," in Ivanhoe and Van Norden, Readings in Classical Chinese nd Philosophy, revised 2 ed. (vide supra), pp. 363-68. o Feature review of Scott Cook, ed., Hiding the World in the World: Uneven Discourses on the Zhuangzi, in China Review International 12:1 (Spring 2005): 1-14. o “Mengzi and Virtue Ethics,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 40:1-2 (Winter-Spring, 2003): 137150. o "What Is Living and What Is Dead in the Philosophy of Zhu Xi?" in Robin R. Wang, ed., Chinese Philosophy in an Era of Globalization (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004), pp. 99-120. o "How to Add Chinese Philosophy to Your Introductory Courses," APA Newsletter on Asian/Asian American Philosophers and Philosophy 3:1 (Fall 2003): 15-19. (Available online at http://tinyurl.com/n4lypc .) o "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. o "Virtue Ethics and Confucianism," in Bo Mou, ed., Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy (London: Ashgate Publishing, 2003), pp. 99-121. o "What Is the Dao of Confucius?" Asian Philosophy, 12:3 (November 2002): 157-71. o "Relativism or Pluralism? A Brief Introduction to David B. Wong's Work," APA Newsletter on Asian/Asian American Philosophers and Philosophy, 1:2 (Spring 2002): 32-34. o "Mencius and Augustine on Evil: A Test Case for Comparative Philosophy," for Bo Mou, ed., Two Roads to Wisdom? Chinese and Analytic Philosophies (Chicago: Open Court Press, 2001), pp. 313-36. o "Introduction," in Van Norden, ed., Confucius and the Analects: New Essays (vide supra), pp. 3-36. o "Unweaving the 'One Thread' of Analects 4:15," in Van Norden, ed., Confucius and the Analects: New Essays (vide supra), pp. 216-36. 4 o "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.) o Translator, "Mengzi (Mencius)" in Ivanhoe and Van Norden, Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (vide supra), pp. 111-55. o "Method in the Madness of the Laozi," in Mark Csikszentmihalyi and P.J. Ivanhoe, eds., Essays on Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1999), pp. 187210. o "Mencius on Courage," in The Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 21 of Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997), pp. 237-56. o "Competing Interpretations of the Inner Chapters," Philosophy East and West, 46:2 (April 1996): 247-68. o "What Should Western Philosophy Learn from Chinese Philosophy?" in P.J. Ivanhoe, ed., Chinese Language, Thought and Culture: Nivison and His Critics (Chicago: Open Court Press, 1996), pp. 224-49. o "Introduction" for Van Norden, ed., The Ways of Confucianism (vide supra), pp. 1-13. o "Yearley on Mencius," Journal of Religious Ethics, 21:2 (Fall 1993), pp. 369-76. o "Hansen on Hsün-tzu," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 20:3 (September 1993), pp. 365-82. o "Mengzi and Xunzi: Two Views of Human Agency," International Philosophical Quarterly, 32:2 (June 1992), pp. 161-84. (Revised version in Thornton C. Kline and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds., Virtue, Nature and Agency in the Xunzi [Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2000], pp. 103-34.) o "Kwong-loi Shun on Moral Reasons in Mencius," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 18:4 (December 1991), pp. 353-70. Reference Works o "Chinese Philosophy," in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396577/obo-97801953965770141.xml (accessed 5-Oct-2012). o "Chinese Philosophy," "Confucianism," "Confucius” for Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia. o Entry on "Zhu Xi," for the Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (Berkshire Reference Works, 2002). o Entry on "Mencius" for the International Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Routledge Press, 1998). o Entries on "cheng ming," "ch'ing," "Chung-yung," "fa," "hsiao," "hsin1", "Kung-sun Lung Tzu," "Lao Tzu," "li2", "Mencius," "ming," "shang ti," "Ta-hsüeh," "tao," "te," "t'ien," "wang," "pa," and 5 "yü" for The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Reviews o M. Theresa Kelleher, trans., The Journal of Wu Yubi, in Dao, forthcoming. o Amy Olberding, ed., Dao Companion to the Analects, in Dao 13:4 (October 2014): 605-608. o Erin Cline, Confucius, Rawls, and the Sense of Justice, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (July 2013, no. 38), http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/41386/. o Chris Fraser, Dan Robins, and Timothy O’Leary, eds., Ethics in Early China, in Dao 12:3 (September 2013): 393-398. o Brook Ziporyn, Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings with Selections from Traditional Commentaries, in China Review International 16:1 (2009): 147-150. o Stephen C. Angle, Sagehood: The Contemporary Significance of Neo-Confucian Philosophy, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (February 2010, no. 17), http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24296/. o May Sim, Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius, in Dao 8:1 (Spring 2009): 109-111. o Daniel K. Gardner, The Four Books, in Dao 7:1 (Spring 2008): 103-106. o JeeLoo Liu, An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy, in China Review International 15:1 (Spring 2008): 39-45. o Jean-Paul Reding, Essays in Early Chinese and Greek Rational Thinking, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (September 9, 2004), http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=4161. o Alan K.L. Chan, ed., Mencius: Contexts and Interpretations, in The Journal of Chinese Philosophy 30:2 (2003): 263-268. o Robert C. Neville, Boston Confucianism, in Philosophy East and West 53:3 (July 2003), pp. 413-417. "Response to Bryan W. Van Norden," by Robert Neville, ibid., pp. 417-420. "Reply to Robert Neville," by Bryan W. Van Norden, ibid., 420. o Roger T. Ames and Henry Rosemont, Jr., The Analects of Confucius, and E. Bruce Brooks and A. Taeko Brooks, The Original Analects, in Journal of Chinese Religions, 28 (2000), pp. 189-192. o David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames, Thinking from the Han, in Pacific Affairs, 73:2 (Summer 2000), pp. 288-289. o Shu-hsien Liu, Understanding Confucian Philosophy, in Journal of Asian Studies 58:4 (November 1999), pp. 114-115. o Lionel Jensen, Manufacturing Confucianism, in Journal of Asian Studies, 58:1 (February 1999), pp. 165-166. o Wei-ming Tu, ed., Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity, in Pacific Affairs, 70:4 (Winter 1997-98), pp. 580-581. 6 o Philip J. Ivanhoe, Confucian Moral Self Cultivation, in Journal of Asian Studies, 55:4 (November 1996), pp. 983-984. o Graham Parkes, ed., Heidegger and Asian Thought, in Sino-Platonic Papers (co-written with Taylor Carman), 70 (February 1996), pp. 24-34. o Chad Hansen, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, in Ethics, 105:2 (January 1995), pp. 433435. o Edward J. Machle, Nature and Heaven in the Xunzi, in Journal of Asian Studies, 53:3 (August 1994), pp. 921-922. o Lisa Raphals, Knowing Words, in Journal of Chinese Religions (1993), pp. 186-191. o Ann-ping Chin and Mansfield Freeman, Tai Chen on Mencius, in Journal of Chinese Religions (1993), pp. 148-150. o Robert B. Westbrook, John Dewey and American Democracy, in Philosophy East and West, 44:2 (April 1993), pp. 341-343. o Robert E. Allinson, Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation, in Journal of Asian Studies, 49:2 (May 1990), pp. 366-367. Presentations o “Confucius and Virtue Ethics,” Philosophy Department, Suffolk County Community College, Suffolk, NY, May 2, 2015. o “Thought Experiments in Chinese Philosophy,” Workshop on Non-Western Philosophical Traditions, Minorities and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 27 March 2015. o “Comments on Karen Stohr, On Manners,” International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 29, 2014. o “Postmodernism and Justice,” School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, PRC, November 11, 2014. o “用西方伦理学来研究儒家伦理思想 [Using Western Ethics to Research Confucian Ethical Thought],” Philosophy Forum, People’s University of China, Beijing, PRC, November 4, 2014 (part of a four-part lecture series). o “Mengzi and the Problem of Extension,” Philosophy Forum, People’s University of China, Beijing, PRC, November 4, 2014 (part of a four-part lecture series). o “Publishing in US Academic Journals,” Philosophy Forum, People’s University of China, Beijing, PRC, November 2, 2014 (part of a four-part lecture series). o “Truth and Argument in Ancient Chinese Philosophy,” Philosophy Forum, People’s University of 7 China, Beijing, PRC, November 2, 2014 (part of a four-part lecture series). o “The Kuhnian and Wittgensteinian Roots of Postmodernism,” School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, PRC, October 28, 2014. o “Comments on Eleanore’s Stump’s ‘Matteo Ricci and The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven,’” School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, PRC, October 25, 2014. o “Reason and Relativism,” School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, PRC, October 21, 2014. o “Writing Well and Publishing in US Academic Journals,” School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, PRC, October 14, 2014. o “Incommensurability,” School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, PRC, October 11, 2014. o “Zhuangzi’s Ironic Detachment and Pluralistic Democracy,” Pluralism Reading Group, School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, PRC, October 7, 2014. o “Paradigms, Normal Science, Anomalies, and the Covering Law Model,” School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, PRC, September 30, 2014. o “Bertrand Russell on Knowledge and Truth,” School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, PRC, September 23, 2014. o “Modernism, Postmodernism, and Hermeneutics,” School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, PRC, September 16, 2014. o “用西方伦理学来研究儒家伦理思想 [Using Western Ethics to Research Confucian Ethical Thought],” 哲学与现实：学术研讨论 [Philosophy and Reality: An Academic Seminar], Wuhan, Hubei Province, PRC, August 30, 2014. o “Wang Bi’s Interpretation of the Daodejing,” Workshop on Daoist Philosophy: Enigmatic Texts, City University of New York, New York, NY, May 27-29, 2014. o “Who Was Confucius and What Did He Really Say?” Amherst College, Amherst, MA, April 7, 2014. o “Comments on Buddhism from a Neo-Confucian Perspective,” Book Manuscript Workshop on Stephen C. Angle and Justin Tiwald, “Neo-Confucianism: A Philosophical Introduction,” San Francisco, CA, March 28-29, 2014. o “Zhuangzi’s Ironic Detachment and Pluralistic Democracy,” Conference on Tradtional NonConfucian Perpsectives on Social and Political Order, Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy, City University of Hong Kong, March 14-15, 2014. o “Truth and Argument in Ancient Chinese Philosophy,” Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy, City University of Hong Kong, March 13, 2014. o Panel participant, “China after Xi Jinping’s Manifesto,” Renaissance Weekend, Charleston, SC, 8 December 31 2013. o “Who Was Confucius and What Did He Really Say?” Renaissance Weekend, Charleston, SC, December 29, 2013. o “Truth and Argument in Ancient Chinese Philosophy,” Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, NY, December 6, 2013. o “In Favor of Projecting Meaning onto the Text,” Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, November 8, 2013. th o “In Favor of Projecting Meaning onto the Text,” Chinese Philosophy and the Way of Living, 18 ISCP International Conference on Chinese Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, July 24, 2013. o “What Do Good Lives Have in Common? Chinese and Western Answers,” Chinese Philosophy th and the Way of Living, 18 ISCP International Conference on Chinese Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, July 21, 2013. o “Who Was Confucius and What Did He Really Say?” One Day University, New York, NY, April 21, 2013. o "The Way of Daoism,” Guest Lecture, Asian Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 26, 2012. o "Truth and Argument in Ancient Chinese Philosophy,” Chinese Philosophy Reading Group, Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, West Chester University, West Chester, PA, March 7, 2012. o "Comments on Myeong-seok Kim’s ‘What Ceyin zhi xin Really Is,’” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Association of Chinese Philosophers in America, Washington, DC, December 28, 2011. o "Toward a Synthesis of Confucianism & Aristotelianism," International Conference on Confucianism and Virtue Ethics, Beijing, China, May 15, 2010. o "Response to Blake, Yu and Angle," American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, International Society for Chinese Philosophy, New York, NY, December 29, 2009. (Part of an author-meets-critics panel on my translation, Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries, vide supra.) o "Suggestions for How to Avoid both Demonization and Apotheosis of the Other," American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Main Program, New York, NY, December 28, 2009. o "Han Feizi and Confucianism: Toward a Synthesis,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese & Western Philosophy, Philadelphia, PA, December 29, 2008. o "Response to Larrimore and Gregory,” Confucian Traditions Group, American Academy of Religion, Chicago, IL, November 1, 2008. (Part of an author-meets-critics panel on my book, Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy, vide supra.) 9 o "Mengzi and the Sprouts of Virtue,” Traditions into Dialogue: Confucianism and Contemporary Virtue Ethics (NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers), Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, July 15, 2008. o "Response to Slote and Angle," American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Main Program, Pasadena, CA, March 20, 2008. (Part of an author-meets-critics panel on my book, Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy, vide supra.) o "The Enigma of Confucius," Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, November 6, 2007. o "Three Trends in the Study of Confucius," Conference on the Analects and History, Columbia University, New York, NY, May 21, 2007. o "The Life and Thought of Confucius," recorded for a CD distributed by The Teaching Company, Chantilly, VA, December 11, 2006. o "What Does Confucius Have to Say to Kant?" Department of Philosophy and Religion, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ, November 15, 2006. o Interviewed by the Korean Broadcasting System for a television documentary on Confucianism, June 28, 2006. (Documentary broadcast in Korea in May-June 2007.) o "Confucianism and Virtue Ethics," American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Main Program, Portland, OR, April 23, 2006. o "How Not to Interpret the Analects of Confucius," Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, September 15, 2005. o "在美國研究孔子的學說：三個學派," National Political University, Taipei, Taiwan, May 16, 2005. o " 在美國研究孔子的學說：三個學派," National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, May 9, 2005. o "David S. Nivison's Contributions to the Study of Chinese Philosophy," National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, April 18, 2005. o "America’s Encounter with Confucian Thought: Three Trends," Bryn Mawr College, October 20, 2004. o "America’s Encounter with Confucian Thought: Three Trends," Bard College, September 13, 2004. o "America’s Encounter with Confucian Thought: Three Trends," Conference on Chinese Philosophy: Past, Present and Future, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA, April 1, 2004. o "Confucianism and Virtue Ethics," Early China Seminar, Columbia University, New York, NY, May 10, 2003. o "Mengzi and Virtue Ethics," International Conference on Confucianism and Western Culture, Academia Sinica, Taibei, Taiwan, January 17, 2003. 10 o "Confucianism and Virtue," Center for Lifetime Studies, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 11, 2002. o "What Is the Dao of Confucius?" Keynote Address at the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, LaSalle College, Philadelphia, PA, April 20, 2002. o Panel on representations of extraterrestrials in science fiction, Vassar College Non-Human Students Association, Vassar College, March 2, 2002. o "Confucianism and Virtue Ethics," American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Main Program, Atlanta, GA, December, 2001. o "Confucianism and Virtue Ethics," Early China Roundtable, Philadelphia, PA, December 8, 2001. o Seminar on Augustine, Freedom Plains Presbyterian Church, Lagrange, NY, September 16, 23, 30 & October 7, 2001. o Seminar on Confucianism, Freedom Plains Presbyterian Church, Lagrange, NY, October 22 & 29, 2000. o "Confucian-Buddhist Dialogues," Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Oct. 16, 2000. o 奧古斯丁 ("Augustine"), in Chinese, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, May 17, 2000. o "The Mohist Arguments for Impartial Concern," conference on "Self, Family and Community: Aspects of Chinese and Western Ethics," National University of Singapore, May 13, 2000. o "A Response to Zhang Xianglong’s 'Reasons of Heaven and Human Existence,'" American Philosophical Association, Albuquerque, NM, April 7, 2000. o "A Response to Lu Zhaolu on Xin 信," American Philosophical Association, Berkeley, CA, April 2, 1999. o "Unweaving the 'One Thread' of Analects 4:15," Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, October 1, 1998. o 當今美英學術界對中國哲學的研究 ("Research on Chinese Philosophy by Contemporary AngloAmerican Scholars"), in Chinese, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China, May 21, 1998. o "Unweaving the 'One Thread' of Analects 4:15," Conference on Intellectual Lineages in Ancient China, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, September 27, 1997. o "Relativism and the Argument from Disagreement," American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Berkeley, CA, March 28, 1997. (Read in abstentia.) o "Why Do People Do Bad Things?" Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 25, 1997. 11 o "Why Do People Do Bad Things?" Fourth Unitarian Society of Westchester County, NY, March 2, 1997. o "The Prospects for Confucian Liberalism," International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, GA, December, 1996. o "Moral Relativism and Comparative Philosophy," Asian Studies Colloquium, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, December 4, 1996. o "A Grammatical Note on Mengzi 7A35.4," Seventh Annual Meeting of the Warring States Working Group, Amherst, MA, October 5, 1996. o "Mencius on Courage," Neo-Confucianism Seminar of Columbia University, New York, NY, April 5, 1996. o "The So What Thesis, Revisited," American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA, April 1, 1995. o "Mencius on Courage," Department of Philosophy, Vassar College, February 10, 1995. o "Mencius on Courage," Departments of Philosophy and Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, January 30, 1995. o "Mencius on the Virtue of Righteousness," Traditional China Seminar of Columbia University, New York, NY, October 11, 1994. o "Yearley on Mencius," American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA, March 28, 1993. o "Mencius and Plato," Association for Asian Studies, Washington, DC, April 3, 1992. o "Student's Progress," Paul Desjardins Memorial Seminar on Classical Texts, Jay, NY, August, 1992. o "Improving One's Character and the Character 思," Paul Desjardins Memorial Seminar on Classical Texts, Jay, NY, August, 1991. o "Hansen on Xunzi," Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference, West Washington University, Bellingham, WA, June 21, 1991. o "Zhuangzi and Analytic Philosophy," American Oriental Society, Berkeley, CA, March 3, 1991. o "Was Mencius an Intuitionist?" Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference, Stanford, CA, July 1, 1990. o "Hsün-tzu on the Classification of Fallacies," American Oriental Society, Berkeley, CA, November 13-14, 1987. 12 Courses Regularly Taught Philosophy 105: Problems of Philosophy (taught regularly) Philosophy 110: Early Chinese Philosophy (taught every fall) Philosophy 210: Neo-Confucianism and Chinese Buddhism (taught every spring) Philosophy/Chinese-Japanese 350: Seminar in Modernism, Postmodernism, & Hermeneutics (taught regularly) Philosophy Senior Thesis supervision Chinese-Japanese 120: Introduction to Chinese and Japanese Literature (taught regularly) Chinese 160: Introduction to Classical Chinese (taught occasionally) Chinese 360: Advanced Introduction to Classical Chinese (taught occasionally) Miscellaneous o Articles on Philosophy Talk: Community of Thinkers, http://www.philosophytalk.org/community/users/bryan-van-norden o Editorial, “No Child Left Behind Act pains remain in higher education over accreditation,” (the editors changed my title without consulting me), The Miscellany News, 147: 15 (February 26, 2015), p. 11. o Proofreader for the English-language draft of “The Development Program of Philosophy as a First-Level Discipline: Wuhan University (2014-2020),” October 2014. o Honored as one of the best college or university teachers in the U.S. in the Best 300 Professors of The Princeton Review (Random House, 2012). o Participant, World Series of Poker 2011 (Event 54, No Limit Hold’em) and 2012 (Events 56 and 59, No Limit Hold’em). o Interviewed by the Atlanta Journal Constitution and quoted in an article, "The Taming of the Tongue" (on offensive speech by celebrities), published December 2, 2006. o Interviewed by the China Daily (Beijing, China) and quoted in an article on Confucius, published December 11, 2000. o Contributor, Fields of Knowledge, "http://www.fieldsofknowledge.com/". o Response to review of The Ways of Confucianism, Journal of Asian Studies, 58:1 (February 1999), pp. 126-127. o Panel discussion of moral objectivism and anti-objectivism, No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed (TV talk show), taped August 23, 1998. (For more information, see http://www.pdcnet.org/pages/Products/electronic/nodogs.htm.) o Letter to the Editor, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 74:2 (November 2000), pp. 102-103. (In this letter, I argue that the Eastern Division Program Committee should schedule a main program event on Chinese philosophy each year.) o Letter to the Editor, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 70:2 (November 1996), pp. 161-163. (In this letter, I appeal to mainstream philosophy journals to 13 review and publish work on Chinese philosophy. There is a copy of this letter at "http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/apaletter.html".) o Home Page: "http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor". o "Van Norden Reviews Annas," Brown Electronic Article Review Service (http://www.netspace.org/bears/958vann.html), posted August 14, 1995. o "Van Norden Reviews Macedo," Brown Electronic Article Review Service (http://www.netspace.org/bears/955vann.html), posted May 7, 1995. 14