CURRICULUM VITAE Sin Yee Chan January 2014 Office: Department of Philosophy University of Vermont 70 South Williams Street Burlington, VT 05401 (802)656-3135 Sin-yee.chan@uvm.edu Home: 353 Northview Court Williston, VT 05495 (802)872-8143 EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Vermont, since 2000. Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Vermont, 1993-2000. Research Fellow, Philosophy Department, University of Hong Kong, 1998. EDUCATION B.A. History/Philosophy University of Hong Kong 1981 M.A. Philosophy University of Michigan 1987 M.A. Chinese Studies University of Michigan 1990 Ph.D. Philosophy University of Michigan 1993 FELLOWSHIPS University of Hong Kong, the Philosophy Department, Research Fellowship 1998 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Chinese Philosophy, Confucian Ethics, Ethics, Feminism, Feminist Ethics, Emotions.
PUBLICATIONS Confucianism and Care Ethics, Routledge Companion to Feminism, forthcoming, date to be confirmed. Evaluative Desire, in Philosophy East and West, forthcoming 2017 (refereed paper). Confucianism and homosexuality, in Chinese Philosophy and Gender Studies (New York: Continuum International Publishing), to be announced (invited paper). From sincerity in the heart to the peace all under Heaven, Comment on Tinker s paper, The Irrelevance of Euro-Christian Dichotomies for Indigenous Peoples: Beyond Non-violence to a Vision of Cosmic Balance, Comment on Omar s paper, Nonviolence and Peacemaking in the Islamic Tradition, in an anthology on peacemaking and nonviolence in world religions (forthcoming: Wiley-Blackwell) (invited paper). Comments on Daniel Bell s paper, Reconciling Confucianism and Nationalism (translation into Chinese, invited paper) in Beijing Cultural Review, November, 2011 Comment on Daniel Bell s paper, Employers and Domestic Workers: A Confucian Approach. Dissent, Winter 2008 (100-103, invited paper) http://www.tecn.cn/data/detail.php?id=20137 (Translated into Chinese, e-paper) Confucian Conception of jing (respect) in Philosophy East and West, April, 2006 (229-252, refereed paper). Reprint: The Confucian Notion of jing (respect) (Translated into Chinese), Philosophy of Ethics and the Confucian Tradition, ed., Fang, Xu-dong (Shanghai:East China Normal University Press), 2010. "Filial Piety, Commiseration and the roots of Jen (benevolence)" in Filial Piety in Chinese Thought and History (New York: Routledge Curzon), 2004 (176-188, invited paper) "The Personal is political: Confucianism and Liberal Feminism" in The Politics of Affective Relations, (Lanham: Lexington), 2004 (97-118, invited paper). "The Confucian Conception of Gender in the Twenty-first Century" in Confucianism for the Modern World, (New York: Cambridge University Press), 2003 (312-333, invited paper). "Tang Jun-yi: Moral Idealism and Chinese Culture" in Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, (Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.), 2002 (305-326, invited paper) "Can Shu be the one word that serves as the guiding principle of caring actions?" Philosophy East and West, October 2000 (507-524, refereed paper).
Reprint in The Examined Life: Chinese Perspectives (Binghamton: Institute of Global Cultural Studies), 2002 "Gender and relationship roles in the Analects and the Mencius," Asian Philosophy, July 2000, 115-132 (refereed paper). Reprint (revised) in Confucian Political Ethics, Princeton University Press, 2008. "Paternalistic Wife? Paternalistic Stranger?" Social Theory And Practice, Fall 1999 (85-102, refereed paper). "Disputes on the one thread of chung-shu," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, June 1999 (165-186, refereed paper) "Standing Emotions," Southern Journal of Philosophy, Winter 1999 (495-513, refereed paper). "Confucian Role-ethics and China's Economic Modernization" in Constructing China, ed., Kenneth Lieberthal, Shuen-fu Lin and Ernest Young, (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan), 1997 (33-55, invited paper) PRESENTATIONS Discussant of the Plenary Lecture by Robert Neville titled Confucianism and the Feminist Revolution: Ritual Definition and the Social Construction of Gender Roles International Society for Chinese Philosophy Conference 2015, Hong Kong, July 2015 Filial Piety and the treatment of the Elderly, Conference titled What We Owe Older People, Queens University, Belfast, England, June 2015. Discussant of Paul Menzel s paper Interests, Consent, and the Provision of Food in Dementia, Bioethics Symposium, Centre for Bioethics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 2015. Agreeing to disagree, at Khazanah Megatrends Forum, Kuala Lumpur, September, 2013 (invited) From sincerity in the heart to the peace all under Heaven Center of Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, October 2013. From sincerity in the heart to the peace all under Heaven, Milwaukee Public Library, WI, October 2013. From sincerity in the heart to the peace all under Heaven at the Symposium on Peacemaking and Nonviolence in World Religions, Marquette University, October 2013 (invited). Confucian Motherhood and Filial Piety at the conference on filial piety, Center for Ethical Studies of Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, July, 2013 (invited).
The Confucian Motherhood at The Australasian Society for Asian and comparative Philosophy, Sydney (refereed), July 2012 Gender in Ancient Chinese Philosophy in Conference on Confucianism and African philosophy, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa (invited), August 2010. Gender and Relationship Roles in Ancient Confucianism, Confucian Institute at the Cape Town University, South Africa (invited), August 2010. Music and moral cultivation, Conference on New Directions in Chinese Philosophy, Philosophy Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong (invited), May 2009. Confucian motherhood, Gender Equality and Democracy, in Conference on Varieties of Democracy, Wesleyan University (invited), May 2009. Xunzi, Mozi and Laozi on Emotions and Desires, APA Pacific Division Meeting (refereed), April, 2009. Commentator on David Wong s paper Moral Conversion, Conference on In Search of Goodness, Duke University (invited), February 2009. The Influence of Mozi and Laozi on Xunzi s Views on Psychology,. Conference on Chad Hansen s philosophy, University of Hong Kong (invited), May 2008. The Ethical Implications of Jing (Respect), Conference on Chinese Philosophy and Moral Psychology, Hong Kong Science and Technology University (invited), December, 2007. The cultivation of moral emotions in early Confucianism. APA Pacific Division Meeting (invited), April 2007. The cultivation of moral emotions in early Confucianism. Symposium on Confucian Ethics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (invited), June 2004. Tang Junyi's idea of gan-tong (feelings-penetration) and Confucius's idea of ren (benevolence). International Conference on Contemporary Confucians, Chinese University of Hong Kong (invited), December 2004. "Filial Piety, Commiseration and the roots of Jen (benevolence)." International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Sweden, August 2003 (refereed). (Paper read on my behalf) "Jing (respect) and Jen (benevolence) in Confucianism." The American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco (refereed), March 2003. "The Confucian Notion of jing." Chinese Center Brown Bag Lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (invited), November, 2002.
"The personal is the political: Confucianism and Liberal Feminism." Conference on Personal Networks in Confucianism (invited), Hong Kong, March, 2002. "Filial Piety, Commiseration and the roots of Jen (benevolence)." Conference on Filial Piety, National University of Singapore, Singapore (invited), January, 2002. "Jing (respect) and Jen (benevolence) in Confucianism," Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Conference (non-refereed), July 2001. "The Confucian Notion of Jing (respect)," The Philosophy Department, University of Hong Kong (invited), June 2001. "The Confucian Notion of Jing (respect)," The Philosophy Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong (invited), April 2001. "The Confucian Notion of Jing (respect)," The American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting (refereed), April 2000. "Paternalistic Wife? Paternalistic Stranger?" Departmental Seminar, the Philosophy Department, University of Hong Kong (invited), February, 1998. "Can Shu be the one word that serves as the guiding principle of caring actions?" New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (non-refereed), October 1997. "Hierarchy, Reciprocity and Gender in the Analects and the Mencius", New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (non-refereed), October 1996. "Confucian Role-ethics and China's Economic Modernization", Symposium on "Constructing China", Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan (invited), Spring 1994. "The Connected but Independent Agent in Caring: the Confucian Perspective", the Philosophy Department, Wesleyan University (invited), Fall 1994. "Standing Emotions", UVM-Darmouth Conference (invited), Summer 1994.