Publications

Journal Articles:

• “Rawlsian Living in a Non-ideal World”, Political Theory (forthcoming) (link)
• “The welfare-convergence dilemma: why social insurance is objectionable in the convergence conception of public justification”, Economics & Philosophy (co-authored with Man-Kong Li) (forthcoming) (link)
• “Trapped between anger and apathy: On the problem of instability in Confucian meritocracy”, Journal of Politics 87(1) (2025): 205-215 (link)
• “Careful, patient, and modest citizens: Facilitating civic education through Zhu Xi’s method of deep reading”, Education Philosophy and Theory 57(4) (2025): 374-384 (link)
• “Talk May Be Cheap, but Deeds Seldom Cheat: On Political Liberalism and the Assurance Problem”, American Journal of Political Science 68 (4) (co-authored with Man-Kong Li) (2024): 1353-1365 (link)
• “Contributing to Public Deliberation by Religious Behavior: Beyond the Inclusivism–Exclusivism Debate”, Religions 15(10) (2024) (link)
• “Famine, Affluence, and Confucianism: Reconstructing a Confucian Perspective on Global Distributive Justice”, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 22 (2023): 217-235 (link)
• “Is it Sectarian for a Rawlsian State to Coerce Nozick?- On Political Liberalism and the Sectarian Critique”, Philosophia 51 (2023): 367-387 (link)
• “Accessibility, Pluralism, and Honesty: A Defense of the Accessibility Requirement in Public Justification”, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 25(2) (2022): 235-259 (link) (received a special mention in CRISPP Essay Prize 2023, see here)
• 〈余英時與羅爾斯的政治自由主義〉，《思想》，第45期（2022年），頁213-231（link）
• 〈儒家工夫與公民美德〉，《鵝湖月刊》，第48卷第5期（2022年），頁52-55（link）
• “Let God and Rawls Be friends: On the Cooperation between the Political Liberal Government and Religious Schools in Civic Education”, Journal of Applied Philosophy 38(5) (2021): 774-789 (link)
• “Church under Leviathan: On the Democratic Participation of Religious Organization in an Authoritarian Society”, Journal of Religious Ethics 49(1) (2021): 68-89 (link)
• “Junzi living in Liberal Democracy: What role could Confucianism play in Political Liberalism”, Philosophical Forum 52(1) (2021): 17-28 (link)
• “Why should I respect you? A Critique and a Suggestion for the Justification of Mutual Respect in Contractualism”, Philosophical Forum 51(3) (2020): 261-278 (link)
• “Public Reason and Structural Coercion: In Defense of the Coercion Account as the Ground of Public Reason”, Social Theory and Practice 46 (1) (2020): 231-255 (link)
• “A non-sectarian comprehensive Confucianism?—On Kim’s Public Reason Confucianism”, Journal of Social Philosophy 50 (2) (2019): 145-162 (link)
• “Conjecture and the Division of Justificatory Labour—A comment on Clayton and Stevens,” Res Publica 25 (2019): 119-125 (link)
• 〈重讀盧梭︰極權之父，還是共和先驅？〉，《思想》 ，第35期（2018年），頁285-307。(link)
• “Is Rawls really a Kantian contractarian?”, Public Reason 8 (1-2) (2017): 31-49. (link)
• 〈論道德人觀的基礎—評周保松《自由人的平等政治》〉 ，刊於《政治與社會哲學評論》，第38期 (2011年，9月) 。周保松教授的回應，見周保松，〈自由之為好〉，收於氏著《自由人的平等政治》（三聯書店，2013）(link)
• 〈保護還是侵犯個人權利？〉，刊於《開放時代》（2009年，3月）(link)

Edited Volume:

• Right and Urban Controversies in Hong Kong: From the Eastern and Western Perspectives (Springer, 2023) (co-edited with Betty Yung and Francis K. T. Mok) (link)

Book Chapter:

• “Rawls and East Asian Philosophies” in Christie Hartley, Blain Neufeld and Lori Watson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of John Rawls (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) (link)
• “Virtues and Rituals: Confucianism and Education for Justice” in Inga Bostad, Marianna Papastephanou and Torill Strand (ed.), Justice, Education, and the World of Today: Philosophical Investigations (Routledge, 2023), pp. 155-167 (co-authored with Liz Jackson) (link)
• “Pursuing Unity or Creating Disunity? An East–West Complementary Approach to Urban Controversies Related to the Right to Environment”, in Betty Yung, Francis K. T. Mok and Baldwin Wong (ed.), Right and Urban Controversies in Hong Kong: From the Eastern and Western Perspectives (Springer, 2023), pp. 177-195 (link)
• “How Should a Liberal Government Accommodate Disadvantaged Cultural Minorities?”, in John McSweeney and Ching-Yu Lin (ed.), Representation and Contestation: Cultural Politics in a Political Century (Rodopi, 2010) (link)
• 〈文化多元主義〉，收於鐘樂偉編，《通識詞典(4)》（中文大學出版社，2009）

Book Review:

• “Book Review of Eleana Ziliotti, Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-cultural Political Theory (Oxford University Press, 2024)”, Philosophy (forthcoming) (link)
• “Book Review of Andrius Galisanka’s John Rawls: The Path to A Theory of Justice (Harvard University Press, 2019)”, Journal of Value Inquiry 58 (2024): 175-177 (link)
• “Book Review of Kim Sungmoon, Democracy after Virtue: Toward Pragmatic Confucian Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2018)”, The Philosophical Quarterly 70: 279 (2020), pp. 440-442 (link)
• “Book Review of Jon Mandle and David A. Reidy (ed.), A Companion to Rawls, (Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2014)”, Journal of Moral Philosophy 13: 6 (2016), pp. 759—763 (link)

Working papers (email me for a draft!):

• “On the function of etiquette in the workplace from a Xunzian perspective”
• “Confucianism and Neutrality: On why Confucianism should embrace liberal neutrality”