Publications

Papers

Ng, Sai Ying. 2024. “A Tale of Two Owens: Xiao 孝 as Trusting Others to Know Who You Are.” Philosophy East and West 74 (4).

Full draft available here. 

Ng, Sai Ying. 2024. “Relational Normativity: Williams’s Thick Ethical Concepts in Confucian Ethical Communities.” Philosophy East and West 74 (1).

Full draft available here.

Discussions 

PEA Soup: Philosophy, Ethics, Academia. Cross-Cultural Philosophy – A Tale of Two Owens: Xiao 孝 as Trusting Others to Know Who You Are. 

Précis from Iskra Fileva. Published November 16, 2023. 

Conferences

Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Jan 17, 2024. Presented on: "We Need to Talk About Zai Wo: Relational Normativity at Work." 

Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, 55th Annual Conference, Nov 911, 2023. Presented on "Trust Your Elders: Xiao and Williams’s Ethical Knowledge in Confucian Ethical Communities." 

(Invited) Aristotle–Confucius Symposium on Ethics for the 21st Century, Jul 3–8, 2023. Presented on "Deliberating with Elders: the Role of Xiao ."

Full video available here. 

Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy, 6th Workshop: New Voices in Chinese Philosophy, Apr 28, 2023. Presented on "Relational Normativity: Williams’s Thick Ethical Concepts in Confucian Ethical Communities."

Full report available here

International Society for Chinese Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Apr 5, 2023. Presented on "Relational Selves: Williams’s Thick Ethical Concepts in Confucian Ethical Communities." 

North-east Conference on Chinese Thought, Nov 12–13, 2022. Presented on "Relational Normativity: Williams’s Thick Ethical Concepts in Confucian Ethical Communities." 

Full slide deck available here

British Society of Aesthetics Connections: Conceptual Engineering and Aesthetics, Aug 31–Sep 1, 2021. Presented on “In Praise of Morally Objectionable Artworks.” 

American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division Meeting, Mar 19–21, 2021. Presented on “The ‘Immoral’ in Immoralism.”

Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Jan 5, 2021. Presented on “Moral Monsters: The Cognitive Pleasures of Imaginative Resistance in Joker (2019).”

Full video available here.

77th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Oct 9-12, 2019. Presented on “Moral Monsters: The Cognitive Pleasures of Imaginative Resistance.”

American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Division Meeting, Apr 5-6, 2018. Commented on Lindsey Fiorelli (Minerva Schools at KGI), “Why Movies Can’t Lie.”