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  1. A Daoist theory of Chinese thought: a philosophical interpretation.Chad Hansen - 1992 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This ambitious book presents a new interpretation of Chinese thought guided both by a philosopher's sense of mystery and by a sound philosophical theory of meaning. That dual goal, Hansen argues, requires a unified translation theory. It must provide a single coherent account of the issues that motivated both the recently untangled Chinese linguistic analysis and the familiar moral-political disputes. Hansen's unified approach uncovers a philosophical sophistication in Daoism that traditional accounts have overlooked. The Daoist theory treats the imperious intuitionism (...)
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  2. Language and Logic in Ancient China.Chad Hansen - 1983 - University of Michigan Press.
  3. Freedom and moral responsibility in confucian ethics.Chad Hansen - 1972 - Philosophy East and West 22 (2):169-186.
    Confucian moral philosophy doesn't seem to provide a theory of excuses. I explore an explanatory hypothesis to explain how excuse conditions might be built into the Confucian doctrine of rectifying names. In the process, I address the issue of the motivation for the theory. The hypothesis is that the theory provides not only excuse conditions, but also exception and conflict resolution roles for an essentially positive morality rooted in the traditional code of 禮 li/ritual, transmitted from the ancient sage kings. (...)
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    Qing (Emotions) fjf in Pre-3uddhist Chinese Thought.Chad Hansen - 1995 - In Roger Ames, Robert C. Solomon & Joel Marks (eds.), Emotions in Asian Thought: A Dialogue in Comparative Philosophy. SUNY Press. pp. 181.
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  5. The relatively happy fish.Chad Hansen - 2003 - Asian Philosophy 13 (2 & 3):145 – 164.
    Zhuangzi and Hui Shi's discussion about whether Zhuangzi knows 'fish's happiness' is a Daoist staple. The interpretations, however, portray it as humorous miscommunication between a mystic and a logician. I argue for a fine inferential analysis that explains the argument in a way that informs Zhuangzi philosophical lament at Hui Shi's passing. It also reverses the dominant image of the two thinkers. Zhuangzi emerges as the superior dialectician, the clearer, more analytic epistemologist. Hui Shi's arguments betray his tendency (manifest elsewhere) (...)
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  6. Language in the heart-mind.Chad Hansen - 1989 - In Robert Elliott Allinson (ed.), Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical Roots. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 75--124.
  7. Fa (standards: Laws) and meaning changes in chinese philosophy.Chad Hansen - 1994 - Philosophy East and West 44 (3):435-488.
    Argues that throughout the classical period in China, the word `fa' consistently means measurable, publicly accessible standards for the application of terms used in behavioral guidance. Review of the Daoist analysis of the meaning of fa; Original philosophical role of fa; Detail of Chinese philosopher Han Feizi's theories on the legal use of the term `fa.'.
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  8. Individualism in Chinese thought.Chad Hansen - 1985 - In Donald J. Munro (ed.), Individualism and holism: studies in Confucian and Taoist values. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. pp. 35--56.
     
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    Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science.Chad Hansen - 1981 - Philosophy East and West 31 (2):241-244.
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    The normative impact of comparative ethics: Human rights.Chad Hansen - 2004 - In Kwong-loi Shun & David B. Wong (eds.), Confucian Ethics: A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 72--99.
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    Mo-Tzu: Language utilitarianism.Chad Hansen - 1989 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 16 (3-4):355-380.
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    Prolegomena to future solutions to "white-horse not horse".Chad Hansen - 2007 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 34 (4):473–491.
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  13. Linguistic skepticism in the Lao Tzu.Chad Hansen - 1981 - Philosophy East and West 31 (3):321-336.
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    Ancient chinese theories of language.Chad D. Hansen - 1975 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 2 (3):245-283.
  15. Gongsun Long and Contemporary Philosophy.Chad Hansen, Bo Mou, Yiu-Ming Fung & Chung-Ying Cheng - 2007 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 34 (4):473-560.
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    A New Look at the Classical Chinese Dào of the Relation between Word and World.Chad Hansen - 2024 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 95:181-198.
    I argue that the absence of some of the ‘greatest hits’ of Western philosophy in Classical China can be explained by a Wittgensteinian take on the role of language in philosophy. One is the ‘Idea Theory’ of meaning which anchors Western Mind-Body dualism. Its attraction is removed when the writing reminds us that a picture does not by itself ‘give life to’ our language even while it plays a role of cross-linguistic communication. Another is the centrality of a law-command theory (...)
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  17. Mass nouns and "a white horse is not a horse".Chad D. Hansen - 1976 - Philosophy East and West 26 (2):189-209.
    The most famous paradox in chinese philosophy, Kung-Sun lung's "white horse not horse" has been taken as evidence of platonism, Aristotelian essentialism, Class logic, Etc., In ancient chinese thought. I argue that a nominalistic interpretation utilizing the notion of "stuffs" (mass objects) is a more plausible explanation of the dialogue. It is more coherent internally, More consistent with kung-Sun lung's other dialogues, And the tradition of chinese thought which is usually regarded as nominalistic. The interpretation is also strongly suggested by (...)
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    Chinese Philosophers.Laurence C. Wu, Shu-Hsien Liu, David L. Hall, Francis Soo, Jonathan R. Herman, John Knoblock, Chad Hansen, Kwong-Loi Shun & Warren G. Frisina - 1991 - In Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 39–107.
    Some of the authors of the essays on Chinese philosophers prefer the pin yin system of romanization for Chinese names and words, while others prefer the Wade‐Giles system. Given that both systems are in wide use today, important names and words are given in both their pin yin and Wade‐Giles formulations. The author's preference is printed first, followed by the alternative romanization within brackets.
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    Desultory Notes on Language and Semantics in Ancient ChinaLanguage and Logic in Ancient China.William G. Boltz & Chad Hansen - 1985 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 105 (2):309.
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    Classical chinese philosophy as linguistic analysis.Chad Hansen - 1987 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 14 (3):309-330.
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    Reading with understanding: Interpretive method in Chinese philosophy.Chad Hansen - 2005 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 4 (2):341-346.
    Sinologists tend toward self-descriptions of their methodology that suggests that they read ancient Chinese Philosophy texts and then interpret them as separate steps. The "reading" is what training in the language is supposed to enable and interpreters who are skeptical of traditional readings (e.g. the present author) can be portrayed as people who have not learned (or not learned properly) how to read. I argue here that reading in its natural sense in this context presupposes understanding, that is, a theory (...)
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    Chinese Confucianism and Daoism.Chad Hansen - 1997 - In Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 23–33.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Problem of Definition Problems of Interpretation Nature and Convention Transcendence Death and the Afterlife Problems of Evil Fatalism and Free Will? Divine Command Theory Piety and Divine Simplicity Works cited.
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    中国古代的语言和逻辑.Chad Hansen, Ch ing-yü Chang, Yün-Chih Chou & Ch ing-T. Ien Ts ui - 1998
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  24. How Chinese Thought “Shapes” Western Thought.Chad Hansen - 2001 - The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 12:25-40.
    I begin this paper with some autobiographical reflections of my own journey in Chinese languages and philosophy not only in order to demonstrate how Chinese philosophy can change one’s attitudes toward Western philosophy, but also to suggest that the shift in philosophical perspective that occurs—when viewed through a Chinese lens—is reasonable. The second half of this paper consists of interpretative hypotheses about the content of Chinese philosophy vis-à-vis the West. I reflect more specifically how the different structure of the Chinese (...)
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    Herbert Fingarette, Confucius: The Secular as Sacred, Harper Torch-books, 84 pp., 1972, $ 1.95.Chad Hansen - 1976 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 3 (2):197-204.
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    Invitation to Chinese Philosophy.Chad Hansen - 1974 - International Philosophical Quarterly 14 (2):244-246.
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    Nietzsche and Chinese Thought.Chad Hansen - 1993 - International Studies in Philosophy 25 (2):29-40.
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    Punishment and Dignity in Chinese Thought.Chad Hansen - 1981 - Journal of Philosophy 78 (11):736-737.
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    Response to Bao Zhiming.Chad Hansen - 1985 - Philosophy East and West 35 (4):419-424.
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    3. The Relatively Happy Fish.Chad Hansen - 2015 - In Roger T. Ames & Takahiro Nakajima (eds.), Zhuangzi and the Happy Fish. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. pp. 50-77.
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    World-Views in the History of Ideas.Chad Hansen - 2011 - Semiotics:23-29.
  32. Washing the dust from my mirror: The deconstruction of buddhism—a response to Bronwyn finnigan.Chad Hansen - 2011 - Philosophy East and West 61 (1):160-174.
    I thank Professors Finnigan and Garfield (Jay) and the editors of Philosophy East and West for inviting me to join in this discussion of Chinese Buddhism. I have not taken many opportunities in my career to write about Zen Buddhism and Daoism, although I have been fascinated by their connection. I remember quite clearly a discussion I had with Jay some years back in which I broached the idea that Daoism had contributed important dialectical steps leading to the formulation of (...)
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    Tao Te Ching: On the Art of Harmony: The New Illustrated Edition of the Chinese Philosophical Masterpiece. Laozi & Chad Hansen - 2009 - Duncan Baird Publishers. Edited by Chad Hansen.
    Although written more than 2,500 years ago and within a radically different culture, the Tao Te Ching's concepts and teachings have become more influential in the West than ever before. Laozi, the Chinese sage and founder of Taoism, sets out a path (tao) that allows us to tune in to the nature of the universe. His axioms are intended to help us achieve transcendence and a life of integrity and balance: they explore the importance of male and female complementary qualities (...)
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    Critiques of Confucius in Contemporary China. [REVIEW]Chad Hansen - 1983 - Philosophical Review 92 (4):642-644.
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    Hsün Yüeh : The Life and Reflections of an Early Medieval ConfucianHsun Yueh : The Life and Reflections of an Early Medieval Confucian. [REVIEW]Chad Hansen, Chi-Yün Chen & Chi-Yun Chen - 1981 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 101 (3):388.
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    Remembering Mass: Response to Yang Xiaomei. [REVIEW]Chad Hansen - 2011 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10 (4):541-546.
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    Review of Mencius and Early Chinese Thought by Kwong-Loi Shun. [REVIEW]Chad Hansen - 1999 - Philosophy East and West 49 (2):207-209.
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    Two Philosophical Dictionaries: A Review of "Chinese Philosophical Terms" and "Neo-Confucian Terms Explained"Chinese Philosophical TermsNeo-Confucian Terms Explained. [REVIEW]Chad Hansen, Yi Wu & Wing-Tsit Chan - 1989 - Philosophy East and West 39 (2):203.