Author Archives: dsturgeon

Paper presented at Greek and Latin in an age of Open Data: Phrase-based alignment of classical Chinese and English Donald Sturgeon and John S. Y. Lee Abstract Aligned parallel corpora are useful for a variety of purposes including machine translation … Continue reading →

Update to the CTP: The dictionary section of the site has been updated to make better use of English translations. Dictionary pages now cite English translations of example sentences together with the corresponding Chinese examples. Additionally, dictionary look-ups for passages … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Update to the CTP: The Wiki section of the site provides online browsing and full-text search for numerous texts not yet included in the textual database. Since some of these texts have not yet been adequately proofread, users are invited … Continue reading →

Update to the CTP: Hundreds of thousands of new parallel passages have been added to the parallel passage database by means of an automated study, meaning that over half of all passages in the pre-Qin and Han section of the … Continue reading →

The following is a guest post I originally made on the Warp Weft and Way group blog.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 →

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 →

Update to the CTP: Word clouds have been added for all texts on the site. These show a graphical representation of unexpectedly frequent words and characters in a particular text, with more frequent and/or unusual words in larger fonts. To … Continue reading →