Category Archives: Philosophy

Fairbank Center

Posted on September 1, 2015 by dsturgeon

From September 2015 to July 2016 I will be serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center of Chinese Studies, working on (among other things) a project I’ve titled “Big Data and Early China: Corpus-Assisted Interpretation of Classical … Continue reading →

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Digitizing Early China

Posted on July 18, 2015 by dsturgeon

Seminar at Leiden University, 5 August 2015 Since its origins as a database of Warring States philosophical texts, the Chinese Text Project (http://ctext.org) has gradually grown to become one of the largest digital libraries of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence, … Continue reading →

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Zhuangzi, perspectives, and greater knowledge

Posted on July 1, 2015 by dsturgeon

This paper, accepted April 2012, has now appeared in Philosophy East and West 65:3 (July 2015).

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Knowledge and Language in Early Chinese Thought

Posted on May 11, 2014 by dsturgeon

An invited lecture given at the Taiwan Philosophical Association at Taiwan University. Abstract Early Chinese thinkers did not typically characterize knowledge in terms of sentential constructs nor consider these to be a fundamental constituent or theoretical foundation of knowledge. At … Continue reading →

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Early Mohists and Logic

Posted on April 26, 2014 by dsturgeon

Presented at the History of Logic in China (HOLIC) 2014 conference. Abstract The extant text of the Mozi can be divided into several sections separated by quite clear divisions in both writing style and content. Of these, one section of … Continue reading →

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Knowledge in Early Chinese Thought

Posted on April 4, 2014 by dsturgeon

The final version of my PhD thesis, titled Knowledge in Early Chinese Thought, is now available online. Abstract Early Chinese philosophical texts contain discussions of the nature, origins, and possibility of knowledge, in which both positive accounts and skeptical responses … Continue reading →

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The Daoist Nazi Problem

Posted on October 14, 2012 by dsturgeon

The following is a guest post I originally made on the Warp Weft and Way group blog. Unfortunately the full text and discussion no longer seems to be available there; below is the post as it originally appeared. The Daoist … Continue reading →

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Zhuangzi, perspectives, and greater knowledge

Posted on September 30, 2012 by dsturgeon

This paper appeared in Philosophy East and West 65:3 (July 2015), accepted April 2012. Zhuangzi, perspectives, and greater knowledge Abstract Although the text of the Zhuangzi appears to present prima facie skeptical arguments, there has been much debate as to … Continue reading →

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