Publications

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

(20) "Despair and Hopelessness" (2023) Journal of the American Philosophical Association, doi: 10.1017/apa.2022.50.

(19) "Gatekeeping the Mind" (2023) Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, doi: 10.1080/0020174X.2022.2163284.

(18) "Practitioner Wisdom: A Conceptual Approach" (with Peter Fawson) (2022) British Journal of Social Work, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 4721–4737.

(17) "The Phenomenology of Hope" (2022) American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 313-325.

(16) "How to Theorize about Hope" (2022) European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1426-1439.

(15) "Bitterness without Hope" (with Anna Cremaldi) (2022) Journal of Social Philosophy, doi: 10.1111/josp.12455

(14) "The Social Dimension of Open-Mindedness" (2021) Erkenntnis, doi: 10.1007/s10670-020-00348-8.

(13) "Pluralism, Eliminativism, and the Definition of Art" (with Christopher Bartel) (2021) Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics, LIX/II, no. 1, pp. 1-14.

(12) "Shame and Moral Autonomy" (2021) Ratio, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 44-55.

(11) "Hope and Hopefulness" (2020) Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 50, no. 7, pp. 832 - 843.

(10) "What is Hope?" (2019) European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 243-254.

(9) "Is Open-Mindedness a Moral Virtue?" (with Anna Cremaldi), (2017) Ratio, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 343-358.

(8) "Is Open-Mindedness Conducive to Truth?" (2017) Synthese, vol. 194, no. 5, pp. 1613-1626.

(7) "Open-Mindedness as a Critical Virtue" (2016) Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, vol. 35, no. 2, pp 403–411.

(6) "Open-Mindedness as Engagement" (2016) The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 70-86.

(5)Epistemic Injustice and Open-Mindedness” (2015) Hypatia, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 337-351.

(4)Why Concepts Should Not be Pluralized or Eliminated” (2014) Polish Journal of Philosophy, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 7-23.

(3)Resisting Aliefs: Gendler on Belief-Discordant Behaviors” (2012) Philosophical Psychology, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 77-91.

(2)Is Conceptual Atomism a Plausible Theory of Concepts?” (2007) The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. xlv, pp. 413-34.

(1) "Why Concepts Can't Be Theories" (2006) Philosophical Explorations, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 309-325.


Invited Articles

(2) "Open-Mindedness" (2021) in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible, Palgrave Macmillan, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_164-1 

(1) "Cultivating Open-Mindedness" (2019) Educational Theory, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 507-515.


Book Reviews

(4) Review of New Perspectives on Concepts (2012) Philosophy in Review, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 37-39.

(3) Review of Doing Without Concepts (2010) Philosophy in Review, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 115-17.

(2) Review of The Harder Problem (2008) Philosophy in Review, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 257-60.

(1) Review of New Essays in Philosophy of Language and Mind (2007) University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 301-302.


Other Writings

(3) “The Phenomenology of Hope” (2023) New Work in Philosophy, March 10th. 

(2) "I’m a Chinese-Canadian living in the American South. Amid a polarizing U.S. election, I think open-minded discussion is more important than ever" (2020) The Toronto Star, Opinion, Oct. 29th, 2020 

(1) “Taking a Look at Ian Hacking” (2005) Idea&s: the arts & science review, Fall, pp. 22-23.