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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“Effortless Action: the Chinese Spiritual Ideal of Wu-wei,” (PDF) Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68.2 (June 2000): 293-328. *

Article version of my dissertation project.