David B. Wong

David Wong is an American philosopher. He is the Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. ^[1] Wong has done work in ethics, moral psychology, comparative ethics, and Chinese philosophy. He is known for his defense of a version of moral relativism.^{[ citation needed ]}

Wong earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1977 under the supervision of Gilbert Harman and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Macalester College in 1971.^{[ citation needed ]}

He is the author of the book Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism, published in 2006.^{[ citation needed ]}

Writings

• Natural Moralities (October 2006), Oxford University Press, 2006 (Korean and Chinese translations in preparation).
• "Identifying with the Nonhuman in Early Daoism", Journal of Chinese Philosophy (accepted, 2009). Written for a symposium at Oxford University in June 2006, Topics in Comparative Ancient Philosophy: Greek and Chinese
• "Moral Ambivalence and Relativism", Relativism: A Compendium (accepted, 2009).
• "Cultural Pluralism and Moral Identity", Moral Self-Identity and Character (accepted, 2009).
• "Emotion and the Cognition of Reasons in Moral Motivation", Philosophical Issues (supplementary volume on metaethics to Nous) (accepted, 2009).
• "Translation of 'Zhuangzi and the Obsession with Being Right' into Chinese", Chinese Philosophy in the English-Speaking World (accepted, 2009).

References

1. "David B. Wong".

External links

• David Wong's Duke page
• David Wong's Book, Natural Moralities
• An in-depth autobiographical interview with David Wong