1) Confucian Political Philosophy – Selected Publications

Joseph Chan, “Public Reason Confucianism without Foundation?” Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 50, No. 2 (2019): 134-144.

Joseph Chan and Elton Chan, “Confucianism,” in Paul ‘t Hart and R.A.W. Rhodes eds., Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 57-71.

Joseph Chan, Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, 272 pp.
- Chinese translation: 《儒家致善主義: 現代政治哲學重構》, translated by Chow Chiu Tak 周昭德, Han Rui 韓銳, and Elton Chan 陳永政 (Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, 2016).
- “Special Feature: Joseph Chan’s Confucian Perfectionism,” Philosophy East and West, Vol. 67, No. 1 (2017). Contributors: Sungmoon Kim, Stephen Angle, David B. Wong, Chenyang Li, Yvonne Chiu, Roger Ames, with a response by Joseph Chan.

Joseph Chan, “‘Self-Restriction’ and the Confucian Case for Democracy,” Philosophy East and West, Vol. 64, No. 3 (July 2014): 785-795.

Joseph Chan, “On the Legitimacy of Confucian Constitutionalism,” in Jiang Qing, A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China’s Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future, edited by Daniel A. Bell and Ruiping Fan, translated by Edmund Ryden (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), pp. 99-112.

Joseph Chan, “Exploring the Non-familial in Confucian Political Philosophy,” in Hahm Chaihark and Daniel A. Bell eds., The Politics of Affective Relations: East Asia and Beyond (New York: Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), pp. 61-74.

Joseph Chan, “Confucian Attitudes Toward Ethical Pluralism” in Richard Madsen and Tracy B. Strong eds., The Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), pp. 129-153.

Joseph Chan, “Territorial Boundaries and Confucianism,” in David Miller and Sohail Hashmi eds., Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 89-111.

Joseph Chan, “A Confucian Perspective on Human Rights for Contemporary China,” in Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell eds., The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 212-237.