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PhD Philosophy University of Oxford
Bachelors Philosophy University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, David Wong is an American philosopher. He is the Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. Wong has done work in ethics, moral psychology, comparative ethics, and Chinese philosophy. He is especially well known for his defense of a version of moral relativism.

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David B. Wong's Published Works

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Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism (2006) (197)
Confucian Ethics: A Comparative Study Of Self, Autonomy, And Community (2004) (68)
Is There a Distinction between Reason and Emotion in Mencius (1991) (58)
Leibniz's Theory of Relations (1980) (44)
Living Morally: A Psychology of Moral Character (1989) (41)
RELATIONAL AND AUTONOMOUS SELVES (2004) (35)
Aluminum Corrosion in Uninhibited Ethylene Glycol‐Water Solutions (1979) (34)
Evolution of Cl−2 in aqueous NaCl solutions (1980) (33)
On Flourishing and Finding One's Identity in Community (1988) (33)
Coping with Moral Conflict and Ambiguity (1992) (29)
The meaning of detachment in Daoism, Buddhism, and Stoicism (2006) (29)
Early Confucian Philosophy and the Development of Compassion (2015) (26)
UNIVERSALISM VERSUS LOVE WITH DISTINCTIONS: AN ANCIENT DEBATE REVIVED (1989) (25)
A RELATIONAL APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS (2005) (21)
Modelling the predictors of intention in workplace safety compliance of a multi-ethnic workforce (2016) (19)
Confucian Ethics: Rights and Community in Confucianism (2004) (18)
Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, & Philosophy (2001) (15)
The Effect of Transient Potential Exposure on the Electrochemical Oxidation of Carbon Black in Low-Temperature Fuel Cells (2007) (14)
Evolution of the dihalide ion Br−2 in aqueous solutions (1975) (12)
Moral Reasons: Internal and External1 (2006) (11)
Cultivating the Self in Concert with Others (2014) (11)
The Conception of Value (2009) (10)
Personality, Identity, and Character: Cultural Pluralism and Moral Identity (2009) (8)
IDENTIFYING WITH NATURE IN EARLY DAOISM (2009) (7)
Relativist Explanations of Interpersonal and Group Disagreement (2011) (7)
Integrating philosophy with anthropology in an approach to morality (2014) (7)
ON MORAL REALISM WITHOUT FOUNDATIONS (1986) (6)
What is the nature of morality? A response to Casebeer, Railton and Ruse (2007) (5)
TAOISM AND THE PROBLEM OF EQUAL RESPECT (1984) (5)
CONSTRUCTING NORMATIVE OBJECTIVITY IN ETHICS (2007) (4)
Constructive Skepticism and Being a Mirror in the Zhuangzi: CONSTRUCTIVE SKEPTICISM (2017) (4)
Applying AC impedance electrochemical methods to corrosion testing cobalt alloy media (1988) (4)
PROPERTIES OF CONDUCTIVE ADHESIVES BASED ON DIFFERENT CURING AGENTS (1999) (4)
Dwelling in Humanity or Free and Easy Wandering (2017) (3)
EMOTION AND THE COGNITION OF REASONS IN MORAL MOTIVATION (2009) (3)
Conserving Nature; Preserving Identity (2015) (3)
Effects of curing agents on the properties of conductive adhesives (2000) (3)
Commentary on Sayre-Mccord's “being a realist about relativism” (1991) (3)
Soup, Harmony, and Disagreement (2020) (3)
The Use of Zinc to Control Aluminum Corrosion in Aqueous Glycol Solutions (1980) (3)
Review Essay: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy@@@Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. (1989) (2)
Response to Craig Ihara's Discussion (1991) (2)
Pluralism and Ambivalence (2006) (2)
Wong's Relativism and Comparative Philosophy: A Review of "Moral Relativity"@@@Moral Relativity (1986) (2)
Are Moral Conversions Possible (2011) (2)
Solar potential of schools (2011) (2)
Agon and Hé: Contest and Harmony (2011) (2)
Morality, Definition of (2013) (1)
Institutional Structures and Idealism of Character (2016) (1)
Evil and the Morality of Conviction (2006) (1)
13 Complexity and simplicity in Aristotle and early Daoist thought (2011) (1)
A Relativist Alternative to Antirealism (1990) (1)
Crossing Cultures in Moral Psychology (2002) (1)
Kupperman, Joel J., Six Myths about the Good Life: Thinking about What Has Value (2011) (1)
Integrity and Moral Relativism.Samuel Fleischacker (1994) (1)
Chapter Nine. Reconciling the Tension between Similarity and Difference in Critical Hermeneutics (2014) (1)
Confucian Ethics: Introduction (2004) (1)
Moral Sentimentalism in Early Confucian Thought (2017) (1)
Technical Note: Aluminum Pitting Corrosion in Aqueous Glycol Solutions: Characteristics and Relevance to Solar Thermal Collector Systems (1980) (1)
Joel Kupperman Wong's relativism and comparative philosophy-A review of (2016) (1)
Anger, Compassion, and One Body (2021) (1)
Study of aluminum corrosion in aluminum solar heat collectors using aqueous glycol solution for heat transfer. Semiannual technical progress report, July 30, 1979-January 31, 1980 (1980) (1)
Practical reasoning in early Chinese philosophy (2020) (0)
Confucian Ethics: Glossary of Chinese Terms (2004) (0)
Moral ambivalence (2019) (0)
Responses to Snow, Miller, and Seok (2017) (0)
On Learning What Happiness Is (2013) (0)
The Confucian and Daoist Traditions on Love (2018) (0)
Castañeda’s Theory of Deontic Meaning and Truth (1986) (0)
Early Confucian Philosophy and the Development of Compassion (2015) (0)
Foundations for Moral Relativism , by J. David Velleman. (2016) (0)
Ing, Michael D. K.,The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought (2019) (0)
Moral Relativism and Pluralism (2023) (0)
Coping with Moral Difference (2006) (0)
Objections and Replies (2006) (0)
Confucian Political Philosophy (2011) (0)
Relativism and Pluralism in Moral Epistemology (2018) (0)
Encountering other traditions (2016) (0)
The author responds: Wong to Fuller (1987) (0)
Responses to Snow, Miller, and Seok (2017) (0)
Climate change : the China Challenge (2019) (0)
Philosophies of Place (2019) (0)
Community and Liberal Theory (2006) (0)
Forum: Chinese philosophy: The beginnings of morality (2014) (0)
MACINTYRE AND THE COMMENSURABILITY OF TRADITIONS (1990) (0)
An Argument for Moral Relativism (2016) (0)
Sustaining Cultures in the Face of Globalization (2012) (0)
Identity, Flourishing, and Relationship * (2006) (0)
1. Hiding the World in the World: A Case for Cosmopolitanism Based in the Zhuangzi (2019) (0)
Three. Are Moral Conversions Possible (2019) (0)
Morality and Need (2006) (0)
Study of corrosion and its control in aluminum solar collectors. Annual report, June 1, 1977--July 31, 1978 (1978) (0)
Study of corrosion and its control in aluminum solar collectors. Progress report, September 1, 1976--November 30, 1976 (1976) (0)
ALUMINUM CORROSION IN UNINHIBITED ETHYLENE GLYCOL-WATER SOLUTIONS (1979) (0)
Responses to Commentators (2015) (0)
Study of corrosion and its control in aluminum solar collectors. Progress report, June 1, 1976--August 31, 1976 (1976) (0)
An investigation into the key predictors of intention in workplace safety-Part 1 (2015) (0)
Making The Effort To Understand (2011) (0)
Hiding the World in the World: (2019) (0)
Study of corrosion and its control in aluminum solar collectors. Progress report, September 1, 1977--March 31, 1978 (1978) (0)
Response to Kupperman's Review of "Moral Relativity" (1986) (0)
Confucianism and Intergenerational Ethics (2021) (0)
The Excitement of Crossing Boundaries (2017) (0)
Study of corrosion and its control in aluminum solar collectors. Quarterly progress report, June 1, 1977--August 31, 1977 (1977) (0)
Does Psychological Realism Constrain the Content of Moralities (2006) (0)
HAGOP SARKISSIAN, JOHN PARK, DAVID TIEN, JENNIFER COLE WRIGHT AND JOSHUA KNOBE (2011) (0)
Responses to Commentators (2015) (0)

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