Edward Slingerland
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Professor of Asian Studies
Edward Slingerland's Degrees
- PhD Asian Languages and Cultures University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors East Asian Studies Princeton University
Why Is Edward Slingerland Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edward Slingerland is a Canadian-American sinologist and philosopher. He is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where he also holds appointments in the Departments of Psychology and Asian Studies. His research interests include early Chinese thought, comparative religion and cognitive science of religion, big data approaches to cultural analysis, cognitive linguistics, digital humanities, and humanities-science integration.
Edward Slingerland's Published Works
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Published Works
- The cultural evolution of prosocial religions (2014) (591)
- The Situationist Critique and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics* (2011) (312)
- Effortless Action: Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China (1998) (268)
- Confucius analects : with selections from traditional commentaries (2003) (204)
- What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture (2008) (126)
- Impartial Institutions, Pathogen Stress and the Expanding Social Network (2014) (86)
- Cultural evolution of religion (2013) (85)
- The Prevalence of Mind-Body Dualism in Early China (2011) (84)
- Who's Afraid of Reductionism? The Study of Religion in the Age of Cognitive Science (2008) (66)
- Body and Mind in Early China: An Integrated Humanities-Science Approach (2013) (63)
- The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China (2004) (63)
- Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities (2011) (56)
- Conceptual Metaphor Theory as Methodology for Comparative Religion (2004) (55)
- Psychology as a Historical Science. (2020) (53)
- Corrected analyses show that moralizing gods precede complex societies but serious data concerns remain : In reply to "Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history" (2019) (51)
- Conceptions of the Self in the Zhuangzi : Conceptual Metaphor Analysis and Comparative Thought (2004) (47)
- Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects: Canon, Commentary, and the Classical Tradition (2003) (46)
- VIRTUE ETHICS, THE ANALECTS, AND THE PROBLEM OF COMMENSURABILITY (2001) (45)
- Effortless Action: The Chinese Spiritual Ideal of Wu-wei (2000) (43)
- What Science Offers the Humanities (2008) (37)
- A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution (2012) (36)
- The Evolution of Prosocial Religions (2013) (36)
- Metaphor and Meaning in Early China (2011) (35)
- “Of What Use Are the Odes?” Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics, and Early Confucian Ethics (2011) (34)
- Collision with China: Conceptual Metaphor Analysis, Somatic Marking, and the EP-3 Incident (2007) (33)
- The Distant Reading of Religious Texts: A “Big Data” Approach to Mind-Body Concepts in Early China (2017) (29)
- Durkheim with Data: The Database of Religious History (2017) (28)
- Coding culture: challenges and recommendations for comparative cultural databases (2020) (26)
- What Science Offers the Humanities: Embodying Culture: Grounding Cultural Variation in the Body (2008) (25)
- Religious Prosociality A Synthesis (2013) (25)
- Conceptual blending, somatic marking, and normativity: a case example from ancient Chinese (2005) (25)
- The Problem of Moral Spontaneity in the Guodian Corpus (2008) (25)
- Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods (2021) (22)
- Religious Studies as a Life Science (2012) (22)
- Mind and Body in Early China (2018) (20)
- Introductory essay: Evolutionary science and the study of religion (2011) (19)
- Creating ConsilienceIntegrating the Sciences and the Humanities (2011) (16)
- Toward a Second Wave of Consilience in the Cognitive Scientific Study of Religion (2014) (14)
- Parochial prosocial religions: Historical and contemporary evidence for a cultural evolutionary process (2016) (13)
- Historians Respond to Whitehouse et al. (2019), “Complex Societies Precede Moralizing Gods Throughout World History” (2019) (13)
- Toward an Empirically Responsible Ethics: Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics, and Effortless Attention in Early Chinese Thought (2009) (11)
- IntroductionCreating Consilience: Toward a second Wave (2011) (10)
- Modeling the Contested Relationship between Analects, Mencius, and Xunzi: Preliminary Evidence from a Machine-Learning Approach (2018) (9)
- Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods (2019) (7)
- Good and Bad Reductionism: Acknowledging the Power of Culture (2008) (6)
- Confucius meets cognition: new answers to old questions (2011) (5)
- Response to Cho and Squier (2008) (5)
- Classical Confucianism (I): Confucius and the Lun-Yü (2008) (5)
- Early China (2017) (5)
- Metaphor, Blending, and Cultural Variation: A Reply to Camus (2017) (5)
- Back to the Future: A Response to Martin and Wiebe (2012) (4)
- The 3d Mind Model Characterizes How People Understand Mental States Across Modern and Historical Cultures (2019) (4)
- Mind-Body Dualism and the Two Cultures (2011) (3)
- The Challenges of Qualitatively Coding Ancient Texts (2012) (3)
- Supernatural agents and prosociality in historical China: micro-modeling the cultural evolution of gods and morality in textual corpora (2020) (3)
- Evolutionary Science and the Study of Religion (2011) (3)
- Mining the Past: Data-Intensive Knowledge Discovery in the Study of Historical Textual Traditions (2017) (3)
- Chinese Thought from an Evolutionary Perspective (2007) (3)
- Exploring the challenges and potentialities of the database of religious history for cognitive historiography (2017) (3)
- Reply to Cho and Squier (2008) (2)
- Reply to Prof. Moeller’s Response (2011) (2)
- Big Gods, historical explanation, and the value of integrating the history of religion into the broader academy (2015) (2)
- Crafting Bowls, Cultivating Sprouts: Unavoidable Tensions in Early Chinese Confucianism (2015) (2)
- Michael Hunter. Confucius Beyond the Analects. Leiden: Brill, 2017. (2018) (1)
- Loss and Ambiguity Aversion and the Willingness to Pay for Index Insurance Experimental Evidence from Rural Kenya (2017) (1)
- Effortless Actions The Chinese Spiritual Ideal of Wui-wei (2005) (1)
- Metaphor and Meaning in Early China 5 (2010) (1)
- Religion and Ecology: A Pilot Study Employing the Database of Religious History (2022) (1)
- What Would Confucius Do? Wisdom and Advice on Achieving Success and Getting Along with Others (review) (2009) (1)
- “SELF-CULTIVATION” (XIU SHEN 修身) IN THE EARLY EDITED LITERATURE: USES AND CONTEXTS (2017) (1)
- WERE EARLY CHINESE THINKERS FOLK DUALISTS? (2019) (1)
- Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China (review) (2006) (1)
- Hermeneutical Constraints (2019) (0)
- The Myth of Holism in Early China (2019) (0)
- Respond to Whitehouse et al . ( 2019 ) , “ Complex Societies Precede Moralizing Gods Throughout World History ” 1 (2019) (0)
- Integrating Science and the Humanities : Toward a Second Wave 1 (2010) (0)
- Do We Really Live in a Secular Age (2013) (0)
- Dear Author, (2016) (0)
- China as the Radical “Other”: Lessons for the Cognitive Science of Religion (2017) (0)
- Mīmāṃsānyāyasaṅgraha: A Compendium on the Principles of Mīmāṃsā. By Mahādeva Vedāntin. Edited and translated by James Benson. Wiesbaden: Harras- (2017) (0)
- Crafting Bowls, Cultivating Sprouts: Unavoidable Tensions in Early Chinese Confucianism (2015) (0)
- What Science Offers the Humanities: Appendix: Embodying Culture: Selected Bibliography and Other Resources (2008) (0)
- What Science Offers the Humanities: Conclusion (2008) (0)
- "OFWHATUSEARETHEODES?" COGNITIVESCIENCE, VIRTUEETHICS, ANDEARLYCONFUCIANETHICS (2011) (0)
- Embracing the Digital Humanities (2019) (0)
- Mind-Body Dualism in the Textual Record (2019) (0)
- Hermeneutical Excesses (2019) (0)
- Impartial Institutions, Pathogen Stress and the Expanding Social Network (2014) (0)
- Soul and Body (2019) (0)
- The Way of Nature (2019) (0)
- The effect of health on the onset of puberty in gilts. (1986) (0)
- What Science Offers the Humanities: The Disembodied Mind: Problems with Objectivism (2008) (0)
- Response to Jim Behuniak (2019) (0)
- Who’s Afraid of Reductionism? Methodological Naturalism and the Academic Study of Religion (2018) (0)
- What Science Offers the Humanities: They Live Among Us: Characterizing Postmodernism in the Academy (2008) (0)
- What Science Offers the Humanities: Defending the Empirical: Commonsense Realism and Pragmatic Truth (2008) (0)
- Metaphor, Blending, and Cultural Variation: A Reply to Camus (2017) (0)
- Introduction: Digital Humanities, Cognitive Historiography, and the Study of Religion (2017) (0)
- Response to Wesley J. Wildman's Commentary on Edward Slingerland's Drunk by the Author (2023) (0)
- How health effects puberty (1984) (0)
- 19 Religious Prosociality A Synthesis (2013) (0)
- Conclusion: Naturalistic Hermeneutics and the End of Orientalism (2019) (0)
- What Science Offers the Humanities: References (2008) (0)
- What Science Offers the Humanities: Pulling the Plug: Laying to Rest Postmodern Epistemology and Ontology (2008) (0)
- What Science Offers the Humanities: Who's Afraid of Reductionism? Confronting Darwin's Dangerous Idea (2008) (0)
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