Slingerland, Edward and Joseph Bulbulia. “Evolutionary Science and the Study of Religion,” (PDF) Religion 41.3: 307-328 (September 2011). *

Reber, Rolf and Edward Slingerland. “Confucius Meets Cognition: New Answers to Old Questions,” (PDF) Religion, Brain and Behaviour 1.2: 135-145 (June 2011). *

Co-authored piece with a cognitive psychologist exploring how recent work in psychology bears upon the paradox of wu-wei in the Analects.

Slingerland, Edward and Maciej Chudek. “The Prevalence of Folk Dualism in Early China,” (PDF) Cognitive Science 35: 997-1007 (Summer 2011). *

A report of a new technique for performing large-scale qualitative analysis of historical texts, with response to critics.

“Metaphor and Meaning in Early China,” (PDF) Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10.1 (Winter 2011): 1-30. *

Winner: Dao, Annual Best Essay Award (2012)

Followed by “Reply to Prof. Moeller’s Response,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10.4 (Fall 2011): 537-539.

Topic of panel discussion, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 2012

Chinese translation by Bao Yongling 鮑永玲 to be published in《中西哲學論衡》[Comparative Philosophy: China and West], Vol 3 (2014), Shanghai: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

“The Situationist Critique and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics,” (PDF) Ethics 121.2 (January 2011): 390-419. *

Selected as a target article for discussion on the Philosophy blog “Pea Soup”

Revised and reprinted in Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives From Psychology, Theology and Philosophy (ed. Nancy Snow), 135-170. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

“‘Of What Use Are the Odes?’ Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics, and Early Confucian Ethics,” (PDF) Philosophy East & West 61.1 (January 2011): 80-109. *

Reprinted in New Directions in Chinese Philosophy (ed. Cheng Chung-yi and Cheung Chan-fai), Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2014, pp. 69-102.

Chinese translation by Ai Chenyi 艾宸伊, “誦《詩》三百，亦奚以為？身體性的思維和早期儒家的修身”, published in 中國儒學 [Chinese Confucian Studies] 10, October 2015, 212-243.

“Toward an Empirically Responsible Ethics: Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics, and Effortless Attention in Early Chinese Thought,” (PDF) in Effortless Attention: A New Perspective in the Cognitive Science of Attention and Action, ed. Brian Bruya, 247-286. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2010). *

“Neuroscience, Theory of Mind and the Status of Human-Level Truth,” in Neuroscience and Religion: Brain, Mind, Self and Soul, ed. Volney Gay, 67-108. New York: Lexington Books, 2009.

“Crafts and Virtues: the Paradox of Wu-wei in the Analect,” in Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with Confucius, ed. David Jones, 109-136. LaSalle, IL: Open Court Press, 2008.

“Classical Confucianism (I): Confucius and the Lun-Yü,” in Routledge History of Chinese Philosophy, ed. Bo Mou, 107-136. London: Routledge, 2008.

“Consilience and the Status of Human Level Truth,” in A Vision of Transdisciplinarity; Laying Foundations for a World Knowledge Dialogue, ed. Frédéric Darbellay, Moira Cockell, Jérôme Billotte and Francis Waldvogel, 51-60. Lausanne, Switzerland: EPFL Press, 2008.

“Good and Bad Reductionism: Acknowledging the Power of Culture,” (PDF) invited response to Joseph Carroll target article, “An Evolutionary Paradigm for Literary Study”, Style 42.2-3 (Summer/Fall 2008): 266-271.

“The Problem of Moral Spontaneity in the Guodian Corpus,” (PDF) Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 7.3 (Fall 2008): 237-256. *

An updated statement of themes explore in my 2003 Effortless Action, exploring new evidence from a corpus of archeological texts.

“Who’s Afraid of Reductionism? The Study of Religion in the Age of Cognitive Science,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 76.2 (June 2008): 375-411. *

Accompanied by “Reply to Cho & Squier” (418-419) and “Response to Cho & Squier” (449-454).

As of December 2012, this article was listed by JAAR as its #1 most cited article.

“Distinguishing the Perspective of Religious Insider From That of Academic Outsider: A Response to ‘評斯林格蘭對《老子》無為之詮釋’ [‘A Critique of Slingerland’s Interpretation of Wu-wei in the Laozi’],” 中國哲學與文化 (The Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture) 1 (April 2007): 321-326.

Slingerland, Edward, Eric Blanchard and Lyn Boyd-Judson. “Collision with China: Conceptual Metaphor Analysis, Somatic Marking, and the EP-3 Incident,” (PDF) International Studies Quarterly 51.1 (March 2007): 53-77. *

Attempt to perform metaphor analysis of political rhetoric on a large scale in both Chinese and English.

“Conceptual Blending, Somatic Marking, and Normativity: A Case Example from Ancient Chinese,” (PDF) Cognitive Linguistics 16.3 (September 2005): 557-584. *

Brings together conceptual blending theory and Antonio Damasio’s concept of somatic marking.

“Conceptions of the Self in the Zhuangzi: Conceptual Metaphor Analysis and Comparative Thought,” (PDF) Philosophy East & West 54.3 (July 2004): 322-342. *

Reprinted in Figuring Religions: Comparing Ideas, Images, and Activities, ed. Shubha Pathak, 63-89. Albany, NY: SUNY Press (2013).

“Conceptual Metaphor Theory as Methodology for Comparative Religion,” (PDF) Journal of the American Academy of Religion 72.1 (March 2004): 1-31. *

“Images of Women in the Analects of Confuciusn” in Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture, ed. Robin Wang, New York: Hackett Publishing Company, 2003: 62-67.