Hagop Sarkissian

Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: Philosophy

Areas of expertise: Classical Chinese philosophy; moral psychology; metaethics

Email Address: hagop.sarkissian@baruch.cuny.edu

Biography
Research and Creative Activity
Honors and Awards

I'm Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the City University of New York, Baruch College, and Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Most of my research is in moral psychology, broadly construed. I want to understand what factors can help us realize or instantiate our moral values on the one hand, and what factors can hinder or defeat them on the other. I use resources from a number of research areas to inform my work, such as anthropology, evolutionary biology, and especially experimental psychology. I also draw extensively from the history of Chinese philosophy, especially the classical period (ca. 6th to 2nd century BCE). More recently, I have begun to explore philosophers in the Korean tradition.

I teach classes in ethics, metaethics, moral psychology, Chinese philosophy, philosophy of religion, and experimental philosophy. Recently, I was honored with Baruch College’s most prestigious teaching award for full-time faculty, the Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching (2022).

Outside of my teaching and administrative roles, I am a co-chair of the Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy and a Project Advisor for Philosophy4BetterMinds.

I am a recovering hardcore NBA fan. I may relapse.

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, Duke University

M.A., East Asian Studies, University of Toronto

B.A., Philosophy/East Asian Studies, University of Toronto

Books

Ivanhoe, P. J., Flanagan, O., Harrison, V., Sarkissian, H., & Schwitzgebel, E. (2018). The Oneness Hypothesis: Beyond the Boundary of Self. New York, Columbia University Press.

Sarkissian, H., & Wright, J. C. (2014). Advances in Experimental Moral Psychology. Continuum Press.

Journal Articles

Sarkissian, H. (2023). How remonstration fails: filial piety and reprehensible parents. Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture, 40. 109-131.

(2023). 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.

(2023). What, exactly, is wrong with Confucian filial morality?. Res Philosophica, 100(1). 23--41.

Sarkissian, H. (2022). Well functioning daos and moral relativism. Philosophy East & West, 72(1). 230-247.

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.

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(2). 193-207.

Sarkissian, H. (2020). Meta-theories, interpretability, and human nature: A reply to Velleman. Philosophy East & West, 72(1). 252-257.

Sarkissian, H., & Phelan, M. (2019). Moral objectivism and a Punishing God. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 80. 1-7.

Sarkissian, H. (2018). Neo-Confucianism, experimental philosophy, and the trouble with intuitive methods. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 26(5). 812-828.

Rommelfanger, K. S., Jong, S., Ema, A., Fukushi, T., Kasai, K., Ramos, K. M., Salles, A., Singh, I., Amadio, J., Bi, G., Boshears, P. F., Carter, A., Devor, A., Doya, K., Garden, H., Illes, J., Johnson, L., Jorgenson, L., Jun, B., Lee, I., Michie, P., Miyakawa, T., Nakazawa, E., Sakura, O., Sarkissian, H., Specker Sullivan, L., Uh, S., Winickoff, D., Root Wolpe, P., Wu, K., Yasamura, A., & Zheng, J. C. (2018). Neuroethics questions to guide ethical research in the International Brain Initiatives. Neuron, 100(1). 19-36.

Sarkissian, H. (2017). Situationism, manipulation, and objective self-awareness. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 20. 489-503.

Sarkissian, H. (2017). Folk platitudes as the explananda of philosophical metaethics: Are they accurate? And do they help or hinder inquiry?. Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 34. 565-575.

De Freitas, J., Sarkissian, H., Newman, G. E., Grossman, I., De Brigard, F., Luco, A., & Knobe, J. (2017). Consistent belief in a good true self in misanthropes and three interdependent cultures. Cognitive Science, 42(S1). 134-160.

Huebner, B., & Sarkissian, H. (2016). Cultural evolution and prosociality: widening the hypothesis space. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39(15).

Sarkissian, H. (2015). Supernatural, social, and self-monitoring in the scaling up of Chinese civilization. Religion, Brain, and Behavior, 5(4). 323-327.

Sarkissian, H. (2012). ¿¿¿¿: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ (Minor Tweaks, Major Payoffs: The Problems and Promise of Situationism in Moral Philosophy), translated by ¿¿¿. ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ (The Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture) , 9. 113-134.

Buckwalter, W., Knobe, J., Nichols, S., Pinillos, N., Robbins, P., Sarkissian, H., Weigel, C., & Weinberg, J. (2012). Experimental Philosophy. Oxford Bibliographies Online,

Knobe, J., Buckwalter, W., Nichols, S., Robbins, P., Sarkissian, H., & Sommers, T. (2012). Experimental Philosophy. Annual Review of Psychology, 63(1). 81-99.

Sarkissian, H., Park, J., Tien, D., Wright, J., & Knobe, J. (2011). Folk moral relativism. Mind & Language, 26(4). 482-505.

Huebner, B., Bruno, M., & Sarkissian, H. (2010). What does the nation of China think of phenomenal states?. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1(2). 225-243.

Sarkissian, H. (2010). Confucius and the Effortless Life of Virtue. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 27(1). 1-16.

Sarkissian, H., Chaterjee, A., DeBrigard, F., Jelly, C., Knobe, J., Nichols, S., & Sirker, S. (2010). Is Belief in Free Will a Cultural Universal?. Mind & Language, 25(3). 346-358.

Sarkissian, H. (2010). Minor Tweaks, Major Payoffs: The Problems and Promise of Situationism in Moral Philosophy. Philosopher's Imprint, 10(9). 1-15.

Sarkissian, H. (2010). Recent Approaches to Confucian Filial Morality. Philosophy Compass, 5(9). 725-734.

Sarkissian, H. (2010). The Darker Side of Daoist Primitivism. The Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 37(2). 312-329.

Phelan, M., & Sarkissian, H. (2009). Is the 'trade-off hypothesis' worth trading for?. Mind & Language, 24(2). 164-180.

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.

Book Chapters

(2023). Me-knowledge and effective agency. Oxford Studies in Epistemology (pp. 261--277). New York, NY. Oxford University Press.

Sarkissian, H. (2023). Confucianism and Ritual. In Oldstone-Moore, J. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Confucianism (pp. 485-498). Oxford, UK. Oxford University Press.

Sarkissian, H. (2020). Skill and expertise in three schools of classical Chinese thought. In Fridland, E., & Pavese, C. (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Skill and Expertise London. Routledge.

Sarkissian, H. (2020). Virtuous contempt (wu ¿) in the Analects. In Tiwald, J. (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Oxford University Press.

Sarkissian, H. (2018). Confucius and the Superorganism. In Ivanhoe, P. J., Flanagan, O. J., Harrison, V. S., Sarkissian, H., & Schwitzgebel, E. (Eds.), Oneness in Philosophy, Religion, and Psychology New York. Columbia University Press.

Sarkissian, H., & Colebrook, R. (2018). Objectivity. In Shackelford, T. K., & Weekes-Shackelford, V. A. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (p. 12). Springer.

Sarkissian, H., & Nichols, R. (2016). Chinese philosophy as experimental philosophy. In Tan, S. (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies (pp. 353-366). New York. Bloomsbury Press.

Sarkissian, H. (2016). Aspects of folk morality: Objectivism and relativism. In Buckwalter , W., & Sytsma, J. (Eds.), Blackwell Companion to Experimental Philosophy Blackwell.

Sarkissian, H., Flanagan, O., & Wong, D. (2016). Naturalizing Ethics. In Clark, K. (Ed.), Blackwell Companion to Naturalism London. Blackwell.

Sarkissian, H. (2015). When you think it’s bad, it’s worse than you think. In Bruya, B. (Ed.), The Philosophical Challenge from China (pp. 3-22). Cambridge, MA. MIT Press.

Sarkissian, H., Park, J., Tien, D., Wright, J., & Knobe, J. (2014). Folk moral relativism. In Knobe, J., & Nichols, S. (Eds.), Experimental Philosophy Vol. II (pp. 169-192).

Sarkissian, H. (2014). Is self-regulation a burden or a virtue? A comparative perspective. In Snow, N. E., & Trivigno, F. V. (Eds.), The Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness: An Empirical Approach to Character and Happiness (pp. 181-196). Routledge Press.

Sarkissian, H., & Wright, J. C. (2014). Experimental Moral Psychology: An Introduction. Advances in Experimental Moral Psychology New York, NY,USA. Bloomsbury Press.

Sarkissian, H. (2013). Ritual and Rightness in the Analects. In Olberding, A. (Ed.), Dao Companion to the Analects (pp. 95-116). Springer.

Sarkissian, H. (2012). ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿: ¿¿¿ ¿¿ (Emotions in Classical Confucianism: Inside and Out), translated by Yonghwan Chung. In Chung, Y. (Ed.), ¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ (Theories of Emotion in Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism Seoul,Korea. Kyung-in Publishing Co..

Sarkissian, H., & Wright, J. C. (2012). Folk Meta-ethical Commitments. In Alhoff, F., Mallon, , & Nichols, S. (Eds.), Philosophy: Traditional and Experimental Approaches Oxford. Oxford University Press.

Flanagan, O., Sarkissian, H., & Wong, D. (2007). Naturalizing Ethics. In Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (Ed.), Moral Psychology, Vol. 1: The Evolution of Morality (pp. 1-26). MIT Press.

Flanagan, O., Sarkissian, H., & Wong, D. (2007). What is the nature of morality? A response to Casebeer, Railton and Ruse. In Sinnott-Armstrrong, W. (Ed.), Moral Psychology, Vol.1: The Evolution of Morality (pp. 45-52). MIT Press.

Presentations

Sarkissian, H. (2024, January 27). Yi Ik’s Presentation of Wisdom in the New Compilation of the Four-Seven Debate. Seoul, South Korea: Sungkyunkwan University.

Sarkissian, H. (2024, July 27). The Dangers of Moral Convictions. The Seeds of Virtue in Ancient Greece and China. Delphi, Greece: University of Crete.

Sarkissian, H. (2024, January 27). Mozi and Zhuangzi on the perils of moral cognition. Seoul, South Korea: Sungkyunkwan University.

Sarkissian, H. (2024, March 27). Mozi and Zhuangzi on the perils of moral cognition. Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought. Toronto, ON: York University.

Sarkissian, H. (2023, October 1). The fourth sprout and the storehouse of wisdom. Columbia Seminar for Neo-Confucian Studies. New York: Columbia University.

Sarkissian, H. (2024, October 27). What Should Be the Focal Points of Philosophical Theorizing? A Test Case from Classical Chinese Thought. How Legitimate is the Philosophical Cannon? Concrete Applications from Greek and Chinese Philosophies. Thessaloniki, Greece: Aristotle University.

Sarkissian, H. (2024, February 27). Comments on Tao Jiang’s Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom. : Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy, City University of Hong Kong.

Sarkissian, H. (2024, November 27). What, exactly, is wrong with Confucian filial morality?. Contemporary Moral Psychology and Cross-cultural Moral Psychology. Georgetown University

Sarkissian, H. (2022, November 1). Mozi and Zhuangzi on the perils of moral convictions. Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought. New Haven, CT: Yale University.

Sarkissian, H. (2024, March 27). Me-knowledge and Effective Agency. Colloquium Talk. : Philosophy Department, California State University at Fullerton.

Sarkissian, H. (2024, November 27). Evaluating a Moral Tradition: Inside and Out. Res Philosophica Conference. : Saint Louis University.

Gosnell, J. S., Sarkissian, H., & Goldstein, F. (2020, December 10). Teaching with Tech: Using Microsoft Teams, Excel, and Github Classroom for organization, feedback, and engagement.. Center for Teaching and Learning Innovations in Teaching Showcases. Baruch College

Sarkissian, H. (2020, March 31). Self-Knowledge and Effective Moral Agency. Buffalo, NY: Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo.

Sarkissian, H. (2024, November 27). Knowing Yourself; Knowing your Vibe. CUNY Philosophy Graduate Center Colloquium Series. New York, NY: CUNY Graduate Center.

Sarkissian, H. (2024, March 27). Self-Knowledge and Effective Moral Agency. Buffalo, NY: Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo.

Sarkissian, H. (2019, October 31). Who is the me that I know? Personal vibes and interpersonal ethics. Burlington, VT: Department of Philosophy, University of Vermont.

Sarkissian, H. (2019, April 30). Commentary: The Moral Metaphysics of Heaven and Fate in Confucianism. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting. Vancouver, BC

Sarkissian, H. (2019, October 31). Why did Mengzi Affirm the Human Nature is Good?. Workshop on Classical Chinese Philosophical Texts. Philadelphia, PA: The University of Pennsylvania.

Sarkissian, H. (2019, July 31). Confucian Social Ontology: Nodes, Networks, and Vibrations. Seoul, South Korea: Department of Philosophy, Sogang University.

Sarkissian, H. (2019, July 31). Metaethical Relativism and Natural Daos. Seoul, South Korea: Department of Philosophy, Sogang University.

Sarkissian, H. (2019, May 31). Punishment's Role in Shaping Attitudes toward Morality. New Haven, CT: Experimental Philosophy Lab, Yale University.

Sarkissian, H. (2024, April 27). Do Filial Values Corrupt? How Can We Know?. Singapore-Hong Kong-Macau Symposium on Chinese Philosophy. Hong Kong

Sarkissian, H. (2018, February 6). Two Sources of Normativity in Classical Confucianism: Or, How Mengzi Broke Confucianism (But It’s Not His Fault). Seminar on Chinese Philosophy. Honolulu: Philosophy Department at the University of Hawaii.

Sarkissian, H. (2018, February 9). Vibes, Ethics, and Confucian de (¿). Colloquium Talk. Honolulu: Philosophy Department at the University of Hawaii.

Sarkissian, H. (2018, March 31). “Functionalism about Morality: East and West.”. Fudan University (Shanghai, PRC): Chinese Philosophy and Culture Program, Department of Philosophy.

Sarkissian, H. (2018, March 31). “Making a Plague of Yourself: Zhuangzi’s Critique of Confucian Self-Attention.”. Virtues of Attention Conference. NYU Shanghai

Sarkissian, H. (2018, March 31). Folk morality and philosophical metaethics. East China Normal University (Shanghai, PRC): Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities.

Sarkissian, H. (2018, November 30). Punishment's Role in Shaping Attitudes toward Morality. New York, NY: Columbia Social And Moral Cognition Lab, Columbia University.

Sarkissian, H. (2018, October 31). You Want it Darker! Paternalism and Hard Measures by The Daoist Who Wants To Do Some Things (Some Very Dark Things…). Zhuangzi: Beyond the Inner Chapters: Second International Workshop. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago.

Sarkissian, H. (2018, June 30). Folk Morality and the Limits of Philosophical Metaethics. Seoul, South Korea: Department of Philosophy, Yonsei University.

Sarkissian, H. (2018, May 31). A Noble Burden: Power and the Resonant Self in Early Confucian Ethics. Seoul, South Korea: Sungkyunkwan University.

Sarkissian, H. (2018, May 31). The Ethics of Torture. Seoul, South Korea: Sungkyunkwan University.

Sarkissian, H. (2018, May 31). Vibes and Ethics. Seoul, South Korea: Yonsei University.

Sarkissian, H. (2018, April 30). Folk morality and philosophical metaethics. Hong Kong, PRC: Department of Philosophy, Hong Kong University.

Sarkissian, H. (2018, April 30). Folk morality and philosophical metaethics. Seoul, South Korea: Department of Philosophy, Seoul National University.

Sarkissian, H. (2018, April 30). Morality and manipulation. Hong Kong, PRC: Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy, City University of Hong Kong.

Sarkissian, H. (2018, April 30). Morality and manipulation. Wuhan, PRC: Department of Philosophy, Wuhan University.

Sarkissian, H. (2018, April 30). Should Confucianism Abandon Filial Piety to Fight Corruption?. Seoul, South Korea: Department of Philosophy, Sogang University.

Sarkissian, H. (2017, November 7). Who was Yang Zhu? A New Interpretation of Existing Sources, and A Plea for his Philosophical Importance. Seoul, South Korea: Sungkyunkwan University.

Sarkissian, H. (2017, November 7). Evolution, Moral Nativism, and Mencius’s Four Sprouts. Seoul, South Korea: Sungkyunkwan University.

Sarkissian, H. (2017, November 17). The Ethics of Personal Vibes: A Case Study from the Past and a Plea for Future Research. Creating a Philosophy for the Future. Macau: University of Macau.

Sarkissian, H. (2017, November 25). Functionalism about Morality: East and West. Seoul, South Korea: Korean Society for Analytic Philosophy.

Sarkissian, H. (2017, October 17). Questions about the Ethics of Organoids. Global Neuroethics Summit. Daegu, South Korea: The Kavli Foundation.

Sarkissian, H. (2017, March 31). Metaethical Relativism and Natural Daos. American Philosophical Association Central Divison Meeting. Kansas City

Sarkissian, H. (2016, June 30). Experimental Philosophy - An Introduction. Colloquium Talk. Singapore: Philosophy Department at the National University of Singapore.

Sarkissian, H. (2016, September 30). Experimental Philosophy and the Confucian Philosophical Tradition. Columbia Seminar for Neo-Confucian Studies. New York

Sarkissian, H. (2016, June 30). Moral Functionalism and Natural Daos. Colloquium Talk. Singapore: Philosophy Department at the Nanyang Technological University.

Sarkissian, H. (2016, February 28). Moral Objectivism and a Punishing God. Moral Attitudes and Decision Making Lab (MADLAB). Durham, NC: Duke University.

Sarkissian, H. (2016, February 28). Nudges: Public and Private. Kenan Institute for Ethics. Durham, NC: Duke University.

Sarkissian, H. (2016, February 28). Intuition vs Experimentation in Confucian Ethics: A Brief History. Experimental Philosophy Through History. New York University: NYU; Yale.

Sarkissian, H. (2016, March 31). Can contempt be a virtue? An argument from the Analects of Confucius. Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought. University of Chicago

Sarkissian, H. (2016, April 30). Harmony, Relativism, and Natural Daos. Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy (RWCP): Conversations with Western Philosophers. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University.

Sarkissian, H. (2016, April 30). Gut Feelings vs Experimentation: A Case History from the History of Chinese Philosophy. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting.

Sarkissian, H. (2016, May 31). Confucius and the Superorganism. International Conference on Oneness in Philosophy and Psychology. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.

Sarkissian, H. (2016, June 30). Confucian Resonance Ethics: Moving Beyond Actions and Persons. Public Lecture. Seoul: Philosophy Department at Sungkyunkwan University.

Sarkissian, H. (2016, June 30). Ways of Knowing: Intuition vs Experimentation in Confucian Ethics. International Conference on Ethno-Epistemology - Culture, Language, and Methodology. Kanazawa, Japan: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

Sarkissian, H. (2016, June 30). Situationism, Manipulation, and Object-ive self awareness. Colloquium Talk. Singapore: Philosophy Department at the National University of Singapore.

Sarkissian, H. (2015, November 30). Chinese Philosophy as Experimental Philosophy. Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought.

Sarkissian, H. (2015, October 31). What is Confucian self-awareness?. New Directions in Chinese Philosophy. Philadelphia, PA: The University of Pennsylvania.

Sarkissian, H. (2015, May 31). Natural Daos, Diversity, and Moral Relativism. Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought.

Sarkissian, H. (2015, April 30). Commentary on Edward Slingerland's "Trying Not to Try". American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting.

Sarkissian, H. (2015, March 31). The Resonant Self: Moral Agency in a Comparative Perspective. Philosophy Meets Cultural Diversity. : University of Pittsburgh.

Sarkissian, H. (2015, February 28). Moral Objectivism and a Punishing God. Experimental Philosophy Lab. New Haven, CT: Yale University.

Sarkissian, H. (2014, November 30). On Wielding Moral Sway. Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy.

Sarkissian, H. (2014, November 30). A Noble Burden: Leadership and Moral Sway in Classical Confucianism. Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought.

Sarkissian, H. (2014, November 30). Sonance and Resononance: Living in a World of Moral Echoes. SUNY New Paltz, Department of Philosophy.

Sarkissian, H., & Phelan, M. (2014, June 30). Moral objectivism and a Punishing God. Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting. Vancouver, Canada

Sarkissian, H. (2013, October 31). Folk morality and philosophical ethics. The Moral Psychology Research Group. Rutgers University: University of Pennsylvania; Rutgers; Princeton.

Sarkissian, H. (2013, September 30). Resonance Ethics. Philosophy Colloquium, University of Houston. Houston, TX

Sarkissian, H. (2013, April 30). Manipulating Human Nature in Early Chinese Thought. The Inaugural Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy (RWCP): An International Conference on Nature and Value in Chinese and Western Philosophies. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University.

Sarkissian, H. (2013, March 31). Folk Moral Relativism. Experimental Philosophy in 3D. New York, NY: New York University.

Sarkissian, H. (2013, March 31). Conceptions of God and Ordinary Folk Morality. Experimental Philosophy Lab. New Haven, CT: Yale University.

Sarkissian, H. (2012, October 31). Conceptions of God and Ordinary Folk Morality. Culture and Cognition Lab. Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia.

Sarkissian, H. (2012, December 31). Culture, Cognition, and Philosophical Ethics. American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA: American Philosophical Association.

Sarkissian, H. (2012, June 30). An Introduction to the Moral Philosophy of Mencius. Annual Peripatetic Symposium on Chinese Philosophy. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College.

Sarkissian, H. (2012, May 31). Teaching the Confucian Notion of Rectifying Names. Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy. New York

Sarkissian, H. (2012, May 31). Resonance Ethics. Philosophy Colloquium, The College of Staten Island. Staten Island

Sarkissian, H. (2012, April 30). Filial devotion in Confucian ethics: asset or burden?. Beyond New Confucianism Conference. SUNY Buffalo: Confucius Institute.

Sarkissian, H. (2012, February 28). Moral psychology and the benefit of a doubt. CUNY Philosophy Graduate Center Colloquium Series. New York, NY: CUNY Graduate Center.

Sarkissian, H. (2011, October 31). Is self-regulation a virtue or a burden?. Vassar College Philosopher's Holiday. Vassar College

Sarkissian, H. (2011, June 28). How the descriptive shapes the normative in classical Confucian ethics. International Workshop on Global Themes in Ethical Naturalism. Singapore: Philosophy Department at the National University of Singapore.

Sarkissian, H. (2011, April 21). What is ordinary in ordinary moral discourse?. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting.

Sarkissian, H. (2011, March 31). Virtue and Imposition. American Philosophical Association Central Divison Meeting. Minneapolis

Sarkissian, H. (2011, December 31). On wielding moral power. American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting. Washington, DC

Sarkissian, H. (2010, November 30). Commentary on Stephen Angle's "Rethinking Confucian Authority and Rejecting Confucian Authoritarianism. Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy.

Sarkissian, H. (2010, August 31). Emotions in Classical Confucianism: Inside and Out. The 1st International Conference of Humanities Research on Emotion. “Reflection on Philosophical Roots of Korean Emotion: Emotion in Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism”. Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea: Chonnam University.

Sarkissian, H. (2010, March 31). The Virtue of Hatred in the Analects. Columbia Seminar for Neo-Confucian Studies. New York

Sarkissian, H. (2010, April 30). Are the Folk Objectivists About Morality?. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting. San Francisco, CA

Sarkissian, H. (2010, April 30). Are the Folk Objectivists about Morality?. Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA

Sarkissian, H. (2010, May 31). Are the Folk Objectivists About Morality?. Metaethics and Experimental Philosophy Workshop. : New York University.

Sarkissian, H. (2009, December 31). Resenting Others: Two Lessons from the Analects. American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting. New York

Sarkissian, H. (2009, October 31). When It's Bad It's Worse than You Think: Confucian Ethics and the Benefit of a Doubt. Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies and Philosophy Department, Wesleyan University. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University.

Sarkissian, H. (2009, July 31). Folk Metaethics: Objectivism vs. Relativism. NEH Summer Institute on Experimental Philosophy. Salt Lake City

Sarkissian, H., & Sommers, T. (2009, July 31). Sins of the Brother. Salt Lake City: NEH Summer Institute on Experimental Philosophy.

Sarkissian, H. (2009, April 30). Commentary on Sin Yee Chan's " Xunzi, Mozi, and Laozi on Emotions and Desires. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting. Vancouver, Canada

Sarkissian, H. (2009, April 30). Confucius and the Effortless Life. Memphis, TN: Rhodes College.

Sarkissian, H. (2009, March 31). Cognitive Science and Early Chinese Moral Psychology. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL

Sarkissian, H. (2009, March 31). Commentary on Michael Schulman's How We Become Moral: The Sources of Moral Motivation. Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy. New York

Sarkissian, H. (2008, December 31). Confucius and Contemporary Moral Psychology. Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy. New York

Sarkissian, H. (2008, April 30). The problems and promise of situationism in moral philosophy. 4th Annual Midwest Conference on East Asian Thought. Bloomington

Sarkissian, H. (2008, March 31). A social psychological defense of propriety. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice: Conference on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Journal (Amsterdam).

Sarkissian, H. (2007, December 31). Rituals, intuitions and social magic: Emotions and automacticity in the Analects. American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting. Baltimore, MD

Sarkissian, H., Bruno, M., & Huebner, B. (2007, June 30). Cultural differences in attributions of phenomenal states to groups. Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada

Sarkissian, H., & Phelan, M. (2007, April 30). The folk strike back; Or, why you didn't do it intentionally, though it was bad and you knew it. American Philosophical Association Central Divison Meeting. Chicago, IL

Sarkissian, H., Bruno, M., & Huebner, B. (2007, April 30). Cultural differences in attributions of mental states to groups. Center for Human Science. Chapel Hill, NC

Sarkissian, H. (2007, March 31). Rituals, intuitions and social magic: Emotions and automaticity in the Analects. Uehiro Crosscurrents Philosophy Conference. : University of Hawaii.

Sarkissian, H. (2006, April 30). Morality and etiquette. University of North Carolina Undergraduate Philosophy Club. Chapel Hill, NC

Sarkissian, H. (2006, March 31). The Confucian Virtue of "Yi" in Comparative Perspectives. American Philosophical Association Meeting. Portland, OR

Sarkissian, H. (2002, April 30). From fear to loathing: Utopia and violence in the Primitivist chapters of the Zhuangzi. Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.

Reviews

Sarkissian, H. (2017,January 1). Review of Foundations for Moral Relativism. Journal of Moral Philosophy.

Sarkissian, H. (2014,May 10). Review of Virtue Ethics and Confucianism. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

Sarkissian, H. (2012,July 1). Review of Individualism in Early China: Human Agency and the Self in Thought and Politics. Philosophy East & West.

Honor / Award	Organization Sponsor	Date Received	Description
Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching	Baruch College	2022	Established and maintained by grants from the Baruch College Fund, the Presidential Excellence Awards are given to faculty members to stimulate and reward outstanding achievement and to enhance the College as a center of excellence.
Core Project Member: Oneness in Philosophy and Psychology	Templeton Foundation	2013	Research project on the concept of 'oneness' in philosophy and psychology. Co-organized an international conference in Hong Kong and co-edited a volume of original papers.
CUNY Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies Mid-Career Faculty Fellowship		2012	NOTE: Declined in favor of the Whiting Foundation Fellowship for Teaching Excellence
Whiting Foundation Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, 2012-2013	Whiting Foundation	2012	Fellowship to support the research and scholarly writing of excellent teachers among junior, tenure-track faculty in the Humanities. Granted one year release from teaching to focus on scholarship and research.
Visiting Fellowship	Research Centre for Chinese Philosophy and Culture	2006	One semester visiting fellowship to conduct research and audit graduate seminars.
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, 2004-2007	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada	2004	SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships support high-calibre students engaged in doctoral programs in the social sciences and humanities. This support allows scholars to fully focus on their doctoral studies, to seek out the best research mentors in their chosen fields, and to contribute to the Canadian research ecosystem during and beyond the tenure of their awards.