BOOKS: 

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Confucianism and the Philosophy of Well-Being, Routledge, 2020

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https://www.routledge.com/Confucianism-and-the-Philosophy-of-Well-Being/Kim/p/book/9781138037922

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ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS 

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"Mencius on the Continuity of Moral Development," (forthcoming in History of Philosophy Quarterly)

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"Moral Agency, Situationism, and Virtue: Xunzi on Moral Development" in  Moral Agency in Eastern and Western Thought, (eds.) Jonathan Jacobs and Heinz-Dieter Meyer. (2025)

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"Well-Being in Early Chinese Philosophy," Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy, (eds.) Justin Tiwald, Oxford University Press. (2025) 

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"Well-Being and Health," (with Daniel Haybron). Special Issue on well-being and the Philosophy of medicine in Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 46(6): 645-655. (2022)

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"Well-Being, Eudaimonia, and Nature-Fulfillment" in Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind, and Action., Vol. 8: Aristotelian Naturalism, (ed.) Martin Hähnel, Springer. (2020)

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"Natural Law in Mencius and Aquinas" in Confucianism and Catholicism, (eds.) Michael Slater, Erin Cline, and Philip Ivanhoe, University of Notre Dame Press. (2020)

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“Daoism, Flourishing, and Gene Editing” in Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing, (eds.) Erik Parens and Josephine Johnston, Oxford University Press. (2019)

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"Human Nature and Moral Sprouts: Mencius on the Pollyanna Problem," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly  99(1). (2018)

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“Confucius and the Meaning of Life” (with Joshua Seachris) in The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers, (eds.) Stephen Leach and James Tartaglia, Routledge. (2018)

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"Early Confucianism and Contemporary Moral Psychology," Philosophy Compass, DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12341 (2016)

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"Well-Being and Confucianism," in Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Well-Being, ed. Guy Fletcher. (2016)

 

"Confucianism and Non-human Animal Sacrifice," European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 8(1). (2016)

 

"The Role of Human Nature in Moral Inquiry: MacIntyre, Mencius, and Xunzi," History of Philosophy Quarterly  32(4). (2015)

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"Human Nature and Animal Nature: The Horak Debate and Its Philosophical Significance" International Philosophical Quarterly 55(4). (2015) 

     Revised and reprinted in Traditional Korean Philosophy: Problems and Debates (eds. Youngsun Back and Philip J.                  Ivanhoe), Rowman and Littlefield International, forthcoming  

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