CCS Faculty
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Sakamaki Hall B-306
Telephone: 808-956-8734
Email: gtsai@hawaii.edu
BA double major in Economics; Moral & Political Thought, Amherst College, 2002
PhD in Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 2011
Research Fellow, Australian National University, 2013-2014
Research Areas
• Ethics
• Social and Political Philosophy
• Moral Psychology
• Chinese Philosophy
• Comparative Philosophy
Selected Publications
• “Vulnerability in Intimate Relationships,” Southern Journal of Philosophy
• “The Morality of State Symbolic Power,” Social Theory and Practice
• “Rational Persuasion as Paternalism,” Philosophy and Public Affairs
• “An Error Theory for Liberal Universalism,” Journal of Political Philosophy
• “Lamentable Necessities,” Review of Metaphysics