Here's a listing of all my publications to date, in reverse chronological order. It’s unwieldy. But you can filter these by topic by selecting the 'all pubs' tab with the dropdown arrow above and to the left of the table, then choosing a specific topic or area. (Most papers are tagged with multiple topics, so they'll appear in more than one filtered group.)
The links take you to PhilPapers, where you can download an archival copy (usually a pre-print or penultimate draft) by clicking the green [PhilArchive] button at the top of the page. While I have profiles in other repositories (ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.), I only update those sporadically. PhilPapers should be complete.
| PUBLICATION | TYPE | ABSTRACT+LINK | |
|---|---|---|---|
Sarkissian, H. (forthcoming). “Virtuous contempt in the Analects.” Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy. Edited by Justin Tiwald (New York: Oxford). | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2023c). “How remonstration fails: filial piety and reprehensible parents.” Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture 40:109.131 | Journal Article | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2023a). “Humaneness and Justice in the Analects: On Tao Jiang's Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China” Philosophy East & West 73.2: 429-439 | Journal Article | ||
Sarkissian, H. and Buchtel, EE. (2023b). “What, exactly, is wrong with Confucian filial morality?” Res Philosophica 100.1:23-41 | Journal Article | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2023). “Me-knowledge and effective agency.” Oxford Studies in Epistemology 7, pp. 261-277. Edited by Tamar Szabó Gendler, John Hawthorne, and Julianne Chung | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2023). “Confucianism and ritual.” Oxford Handbook of Confucianism. Edited by Jennifer L. Oldstone-Moore | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2022). “Meta-theories, interpretability, and human nature--A reply to Velleman.” Philosophy East & West 72.1:252-257 | Journal Article | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2022). “Well-functioning daos and moral relativism.” Philosophy East & West 72.1:230-247 | Journal Article | ||
Baimel, A., White, C., Sarkissian, H., & Norenzayan, A. (2021). How is analytical thinking related to religious belief? A test of three theoretical models. Religion, Brain & Behavior 11.3:239-260 | Journal Article | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2020). “Do filial values corrupt? How can we know? Clarifying and assessing the recent Confucian debate.” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 19:193-207 | Journal Article | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2020). “Skill and expertise in classical Chinese thought.” In Routledge Handbook of Skill and Expertise. Edited by Ellen Fridland and Carlotta Pavese. | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H and Phelan, M. (2019). “Moral objectivism and a punishing God” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 80:1-7 | Journal Article | ||
Global Neuroethics Summit Delegates (Amadio, J, Bi, G., Boshears. PF, Carter, A., Devor, A., Doya, K., Garden. H., Illes, J., Johnson, LSM, Jorgenson, L., Jun, B-O, Lee, I., Michie, P., Miyakawa, T., Nakazawa, E., Sakura, O., Sarkissian, H., Specker-Sullivan, L., Uh, S., Winickoff, D., Wolpe. PR., Wu, KC., Yasamura, A., Zheng, JC), Rommelfanger KS, Jeong SJ, Ema A, Fukushi T, Kasai K, Ramos KM, Salles A, and Singh I. (2018). “Neuroethics questions to guide ethical research in the International Brain Initiatives.” Neuron 100.1:19-36 | Journal Article | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2018). “Neo-Confucianism, experimental philosophy, and the trouble with intuitive methods.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 26.5:812-828 | Journal Article | ||
De Freitas, J., Sarkissian, H., Newman, G.E., Grossmann, I., De Brigard, F., Luco, A., and Knobe, J. (2018). “Consistent belief in a good true self in misanthropes and three interdependent cultures” Cognitive Science (S1):134-160 | Journal Article | ||
Colebrook, R. and Sarkissian, H. (2018). “Objectivity.” Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Edited by Todd K. Shackelford and Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford (Springer). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_534-1 | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2018). "Confucius and the superorganism." In The Oneness Hypothesis: Beyond the Boundary of Self. Edited by Philip Ivanhoe, Owen Flanagan, Victoria Harrison, Eric Schwitzgebel, and Hagop Sarkissian (New York: Columbia) | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2017). “Folk platitudes as the explananda of philosophical metaethics: Are they accurate? And do they help or hinder inquiry?” Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research 34:565-575 | Journal Article | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2017). “Situationism, manipulation, and objective self-awareness.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 20:489–503 | Journal Article | ||
Huebner, B., and Sarkissian, H. (2016). “Cultural evolution and prosociality: widening the hypothesis space.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39:e15. | Journal Article | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2016). “Aspects of folk morality: Objectivism and relativism.” Blackwell Companion to Experimental Philosophy. Edited by Wesley Buckwalter and Justin Sytsma (London: Blackwell) | Book Chapter | ||
Flanagan, O., Sarkissian, H., and Wong, D. “Naturalizing ethics.” (2016). In the Blackwell Companion to Naturalism (pp.16-33). Edited by Kelly James Clark. (London: Blackwell) [slightly modified reprint of Flanagan et al, 2007, below] | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H., and Nichols, R. (2016). “Chinese philosophy as experimental philosophy.” Research Handbook on Methodology in Chinese Philosophy. Edited by Sor-hoon Tan (Bloomsbury). | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2015). “Supernatural, social, and self-monitoring in the scaling up of Chinese civilization.” Religion, Brain, and Behavior 5.4:323-327. | Journal Article | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2015). “When you think it’s bad, it’s worse than you think.” In The Philosophical Challenge from China. Edited by Brian Bruya (Cambridge: MIT Press). | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2014). “Is self-regulation a burden or a virtue?” In The Philosophy and Psychology of Virtue: An Empirical Approach to Character and Happiness. Edited by Nancy E. Snow and Franco V. Trivigno (Routledge) | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H., Park, J., Tien, D., Wright, J., & Knobe, J. (2014). Folk moral relativism. In Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols (Ed.), Experimental Philosophy Vol. II (pp. 169-192). [reprint of Sarkissian et al 2011] | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H., and Wright, J. (2013). “Introduction to Experimental Moral Philosophy” In Advances in Experimental Moral Psychology. Edited by Hagop Sarkissian and Jennifer Cole Wright. Continuum Press. | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2013). “Ritual and rightness in the Analects.” In the Dao Companion to the Analects. Edited by Amy L. Olberding (Springer Press). | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2011). 因小得大: 情境论于道德哲学的困难与可能. (A revised translation of “Minor tweaks, major payoffs: The problems and promise of situationism in moral philosophy”, below) 中国哲学与文化 (The Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture) vol.9 | Journal Article | ||
Knobe, J., Buckwalter, W., Robbins, P., Sarkissian, H., Sommers, T., and Nichols, S. (2012.) “Experimental Philosophy” Annual Review of Psychology 63.1:81-99 | Journal Article | ||
Buckwalter, W., Knobe, J., Nichols, S., Pinillos, N.A., Robbins, P., Sarkissian, H., Weigel, C and Weinberg, J.M. (2012). “Experimental Philosophy.” Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy. Edited by Duncan Pritchard. New York: Oxford University Press. | Online Resource | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2012). 고전 유교에서의 감정: 내면과 외면 (Emotions in Classical Confucianism: Inside and Out, translated by Yonghwan Chung), in 유교 도교 불교의 감성이론 (Theories of Emotion in Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism), edited by Yonghwan Chung (Seoul: Kyung-in Publishing Co.) | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H., and Wright, J. (2011). “Folk meta-ethical commitments” In Philosophy: Traditional and Experimental Approaches. Edited by Fritz Allhoff, Ron Mallon, and Shaun Nichols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press). | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H., Park, J., Tien, D., Wright, J., and Knobe, J. (2011). “Folk moral relativism.” Mind & Language 26.4:482-505 | Journal Article | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2010). “Recent approaches to Confucian filial morality” Philosophy Compass 5.9:725-734 | Journal Article | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2010). “Minor tweaks, major payoffs: The problems and promise of situationism in moral philosophy” Philosophers’ Imprint 10.9:1-15 | Journal Article | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2010). “The Darker Side of Daoist Primitivism” The Journal of Chinese Philosophy 37.2:312-329 | Journal Article | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2010). “Confucius and the Effortless Life of Virtue” History of Philosophy Quarterly 27.1:1-16 | Journal Article | ||
Sarkissian, H., Chaterjee, A., De Brigard, F., Jelly, C., Knobe, J., Nichols, S. and Sirker, S. (2010). “Is Belief in Free Will a Cultural Universal?" Mind & Language 25.3:346-358 | Journal Article | ||
Huebner, B., Bruno, M, and Sarkissian, H. (2010). “What does the nation of China think of phenomenal states?” Review of Philosophy and Psychology 1.3-4 | Journal Article | ||
Phelan, M., and Sarkissian, H. (2009). “Is the ‘trade-off hypothesis’ worth trading for?” Mind & Language 24.2:164-80 | Journal Article | ||
Phelan, M., Sarkissian, H. (2008). “The folk strike back: Or, why you didn’t do it intentionally, though it was bad and you knew it.” Philosophical Studies 138.2: 291-298 | Journal Article | ||
Flanagan, O., Sarkissian, H., and Wong, D. (2007). “Naturalizing ethics.” In Moral Psychology, Vol. 1: The Evolution of Morality. Edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. Cambridge: MIT Press | Book Chapter | ||
Flanagan, O., Sarkissian, H., and Wong, D. (2007). “What is the nature of morality? A response to Casebeer, Railton, and Ruse.” In Moral Psychology, Vol. 1: The Evolution of Morality. Edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. Cambridge: MIT Press | Book Chapter | ||
Sarkissian, H. (2017). “Review: Foundations for Moral Relativism by J. David Velleman.” Journal of Moral Philosophy 14 (1):116-119 (2017) | |||
Sarkissian, H. (2014). “Review: Stephen C. Angle and Michael Slote (eds.), Virtue Ethics and Confucianism, Routledge, 2013, 271pp., $125.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780415815482. | |||
Sarkissian, H. (2012). Review: Individualism in Early China: Human Agency and the Self in Thought and Politics by Erica Fox Brindley. Philosophy East and West 62 (3):408-410 (2012) |