Department of Philosophy and Religion

Research Interests

Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology (esp. Virtue Epistemology), Metaphysics, and Moral Psychology

Personal Website

https://sites.google.com/site/kwongjm/

Publications

Peer-Refereed Journal Articles

• "Despair and Hopelessness" (forthcoming) Journal of the American Philosophical Association.

• "Gatekeeping the Mind" (2023) Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, doi: 10.1080/0020174X.2022.2163284

• "Practitioner Wisdom: A Conceptual Approach" (with Peter Fawson) (2022) British Journal of Social Work, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 4721–4737.

• "The Phenomenology of Hope" (2022) American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 313-325.

• "How to Theorize about Hope" (2022) European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1426-1439.

• "Bitterness without Hope" (with Anna Cremaldi) (2022) Journal of Social Philosophy, doi: 10.1111/josp.12455

• "The Social Dimension of Open-Mindedness" (2021) Erkenntnis, doi: 10.1007/s10670-020-00348-8.

• "Pluralism, Eliminativism, and the Definition of Art" (with Christopher Bartel) (2021) Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics, LIX/II, no. 1, pp. 1-14.

• "Shame and Moral Autonomy" (2021) Ratio, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 44-55.

• "Hope and Hopefulness" (2020) Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 50, no. 7, pp. 832 - 843.

• "What is Hope?" (2019) European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 243-254.

• "Is Open-Mindedness a Moral Virtue?" (with Anna Cremaldi), (2017) Ratio, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 343-358.

• "Is Open-Mindedness Conducive to Truth?" (2017) Synthese, vol. 194, no. 5, pp. 1613-1626.

• "Open-Mindedness as a Critical Virtue" (2016)Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, vol. 35, no. 2, pp 403–411.

• "Open-Mindedness as Engagement" (2016) The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 70-86.

• “Epistemic Injustice and Open-Mindedness” (2015) Hypatia, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 337-351.

• “Why Concepts Should Not be Pluralized or Eliminated” (2014) Polish Journal of Philosophy, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 7-23.

• “Resisting Aliefs: Gendler on Belief-Discordant Behaviors” (2012) Philosophical Psychology, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 77-91.

• “Is Conceptual Atomism a Plausible Theory of Concepts?” (2007) The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. xlv, pp. 413-34.

• "Why Concepts Can't Be Theories" (2006) Philosophical Explorations, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 309-325.

 Invited Articles

• "Open-Mindedness" (2021) in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible, Palgrave Macmillan, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_164-1

• "Cultivating Open-Mindedness" (2019) Educational Theory, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 507-515.

  Book Reviews

• Review of New Perspectives on Concepts (2012) Philosophy in Review, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 37-39.

• Review of Doing Without Concepts (2010) Philosophy in Review, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 115-17.

• Review of The Harder Problem (2008) Philosophy in Review, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 257-60.

• Review of New Essays in Philosophy of Language and Mind (2007) University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 301-302.

  Other Writings

• "I’m a Chinese-Canadian living in the American South. Amid a polarizing U.S. election, I think open-minded discussion is more important than ever" (2020) The Toronto Star, Opinion, Oct. 29th, 2020

• “Taking a Look at Ian Hacking” (2005) Idea&s: the arts & science review, Fall, pp. 22-23.