Curie Virag
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at 果冻传媒. I work in the history of ethics, epistemology, moral psychology, and philosophical anthropology in classical China and across traditions, with a particular focus on emotions. My broader interests concern how thinkers in premodern China and across traditions conceptualised the self and the human being, the nature of human agency, and the meaning and sources of knowledge and understanding.
Recently, I have been working on the ethics of anger in early Confucianism, rituals of grief in Xunzi, and pleasure as a form of agency in Song dynasty texts about gardens. I am currently writing a book on the emotions of landscape.
I am an elected member of the Executive Committee at the and an Associate Editor for , where I have been supporting the journal鈥檚 ongoing endeavour to bring Asian and non-Western philosophical traditions into engagement with contemporary practical ethics.
Teaching (2026-2027)
Term 1: On research leave
Term 2: PH150 - World Philosophies
Admin (2026-2027)
Terms 2 & 3:
- UG Course Convenor
- History and Philosophy BA
- Philosophy and Global Sustainable Development BASc
- PG Senior Tutor
Recent Funded Projects
- Monash-果冻传媒 Alliance Project (Research Activation Fund): (Co-PI with Yasmin Haskell, Monash, and with Andrew Cooper and Eileen John; 2025-2026)
- ERC Consolidator Grant: Classicising Learning in Medieval Imperial Systems: Cross-cultural Approaches to Byzantine Paideia and Tang/Song Xue (Co-I, with Niels Gaul; 2017-2023)
Books
- . Co-edited with David Konstan (Palgrave, 2026)
- . Co-edited with Douglas Cairns (Oxford, 2024).
- (Oxford, 2017).
Selected Articles and Chapters
- 'Introduction: Investigating the Conceptual Terrain of Emotions Across Traditions鈥�. In David Konstan and Curie Vir谩g eds., (Palgrave, 2026)
- 鈥楨motions as Webs of Connectivity in Early China鈥�. In David Konstan and Curie Vir谩g eds.,
(Palgrave, 2026)
- 鈥楥osmic and Human Agency in the Daodejing'. In Xiaogan Liu and Ai Yuan eds., (Springer, 2026)
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Seongho Yi Ik鈥檚 Natural Theory of Emotions'. (Jan 2026).
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'Being of Two Minds in Eleventh-Century China: Affective Bimodality in Guo Xi and Su Shi'. In Douglas Cairns and Pia Campeggiani eds., . Ancient Emotions IV (De Gruyter, 2025).
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鈥楨motion Theory in Early and Medieval China, 500 BCE-1200 CE鈥�. In Andrea Scarantino ed., . (Routledge, 2024)
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鈥業ntroduction: Emotions as a Topic of Cross-cultural and Historical Investigation鈥� (with Douglas Cairns). In Douglas Cairns and Curie Vir谩g eds., Oxford, 2024).
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鈥楨诲颈迟辞谤颈补濒鈥�. Jul 2023.
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鈥榁irtuous Contempt and the Ritual Community in Confucius and Xunzi鈥�. , 2023: 178-188.
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鈥業ntercultural Understanding and the Possibility of Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Wittgensteinian and Zhuangzian Perspectives鈥�. In David P茅rez-Chico, Carla Carmona and Chon Tejedor eds., Anthem Press, 2023): 93-108.
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鈥楨motions, Measurement and the 罢别肠丑苍锚 of Practical Wisdom in Xunzi鈥檚 Ethical Theory鈥�.In David Konstan ed., (De Gruyter, 2022).
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鈥楨诲颈迟辞谤颈补濒鈥�. Nov 2021.
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鈥楾he Pleasures of Virtue and the Virtues of Pleasure: The Classicizing Garden in Eleventh- and Twelfth-century China and Byzantium鈥� (with Foteini Spingou). , Jun 2021: 229-265.
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鈥楳oral Psychology and Cultivating the Self鈥� (Introduction and translation). In Philip J. Ivanhoe ed., . Oxford, 2019: 35-55.
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鈥業ntroduction to History of Science Special Issue on Tong 閫氣�� (with Volker Scheid). , Jun 2018: 123-130.
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鈥楾he Intelligence of Emotions? Debates over the Structure of Moral Life in Early China鈥�. , Jun 2016: 83-109.
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鈥楽elf-cultivation as Praxis in Song Neo-Confucianism鈥�. In John Lagerwey and Pierre Marsone eds., . Brill, 2014: 1187-1232.
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鈥楨arly Confucian Perspectives on Emotions鈥�. In Vincent Shen ed. Springer, 2014: 203-226.
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鈥楨motions and Human Agency in the Thought of Zhu Xi鈥�. , 2007: 49-88.
Public Writing
- 鈥楻ituals Create Community by Translating our Love into Action鈥�. .
