JOURNAL ARTICLES
& Book Chapters
Early Chinese Thought
This is my area of primary research competence, and I often explore the broader research themes mentioned above in the context of Warring States (5th-3rd c BCE) Chinese thought, especially early Confucianism and Daoism.
My full translation of the Analects of Confucius was the first to include translations from traditional commentaries, a trend that has since caught on, and I am considering a new translation of The Zhuangzi, an important early “Daoist” text that is relatively neglected compared to its more famous cousin, the Daodejing attributed to Laozi.
Asterisks indicate refereed publications; sole-authored unless otherwise indicated.
“Introduction: Cognitive Science and Chinese Philosophy,” in Huang, Kevin and Edward Slingerland (editors), Guoji Hanxue luncong 國際漢學論叢 Special Issue on Chinese Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology in Hong Kong, in press.
“Response to Jim Behuniak,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 18.3: 485-488 (2019).
Nichols, Ryan, Edward Slingerland, Kristoffer Nielbo, and Uffe Bergeton. “Modeling the Contested Relationship Between Analects, Mencius, and Xunzi: Preliminary Evidence from a Machine- Learning Approach,” (PDF) Journal of Asian Studies 77.1: 19-57 (2018). *
Slingerland, Edward, Ryan Nichols, Kristoffer Nielbo and Carson Logan. “The Distant Reading of Religious Texts: A “Big Data” Approach to Mind-Body Concepts in Early China,” (PDF) Journal of the American Academy of Religion 85.4: 985–1016 (2017). *
“Crafting Bowls, Cultivating Sprouts: Unavoidable Tensions in Early Chinese Confucianism,” (PDF) Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 14.2: 211-218. *
“Classical Confucianism (I): Confucius and the Lun-Yü,” in Routledge History of Chinese Philosophy, ed. Bo Mou, 107-136. London: Routledge, 2008.
“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.
Annotated translation of and introduction to selections from the Analects (with critical bibliography), in Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, ed. P.J. Ivanhoe and Bryan Van Norden, Seven Bridges Press (August 2000): 1-53.
“The Conception of Ming [“Fate”] in Early Chinese Thought,” Philosophy East and West 46.4 (1996): 567-581. *