Nicole M. Alberts

Education

BA (University of Saskatchewan) 
MA (University of Regina)
PhD (University of Regina) 
Pre-Doctoral Residency (University of Washington) 
Post-Doctoral Fellowship (University of Washington) 

Research Interests

My research program focuses on improving behavioural health and psychological outcomes among individuals across the lifespan. I view digital health as an approach that can be used to assist with achieving this goal via increasing access to evidence-based interventions for youth and adults. As such, I use digital health to answer key research questions and to develop and test interventions targeting outcomes such as chronic pain, anxiety, depression, and health behaviours. 

Specific areas of interest include: 

• Chronic pain in childhood cancer survivors
• Pain in youth undergoing cancer treatment 
• Fear of cancer recurrence; cancer-related worry 
• Pain in youth and adults with sickle cell disease 
• Health anxiety 
• Internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy 
• Wearable-based interventions 

2022 Fall -2023 Winter (on leave)

2021 Fall -2022 Winter 
PHIL 280 Classical Chinese Philosophy
PHIL235 Biomedical Ethics
PHIL 430 Advanced Studies in Ethics
PHIL 235 Biomedical Ethics

Fall 2020-21
PHIL 380 Chinese Philosophy: From Han to the 19th Century
PHIL 235 Biomedical Ethics

Winter 2019-20
PHIL 235 Biomedical Ethics

Fall 2019-20
PHIL 285 - Non-Western Philosophy
PHIL 430 - Advanced Studies in Ethics

Learned Women, “Leftover” Women, and “The Third Sex” — Women’s Learning in the Confucian Tradition and Contemporary China, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Forthcoming (accepted Aug. 2023) Wordcount: 10,040, peer-reviewed. Penultimate draft.

Roles and Virtues: which is more important for Confucian Women? forthcoming, in Alex Barber & Sean Cordell ed., Ethics of Social Roles, Oxford University Press, 2022. Link.

Shame, Vulnerability, and Change, 2022, The Journal of American Philosophical Association. 8(2), 373-390. Open Access Link.

The Mencian Triplet of Ceyin Zhi Xin: Perceptive, Affective, and Motivational, in Dao Companion to the Philosophy of

Mencius(2023), Springer. Editor: Yang Xiao, Kim-Chong Chong ed.

Confucian Ethics, BloomsburyHandbook in Ethics (2023), Bloomsbury Press. Editor: Christian Miller

Constructing Morality with Mengzi: Three Lessons on Moral Discovery and Meta-ethics, with S. Robertson, in Lost Voice at the Foundation of Ethics, Routledge. ed. Colin Marshal, (2020).  Penultimate draft.

Moral Motivation in Mencius Part 1—When a child falls into a well, Philosophy Compass. 2019; 14:e12615. Link

Moral Motivation in Mencius Part 2—When one burst of anger brings peace to the world,” Philosophy Compass. 2019; 14:e12614. Link

Empathy for non-kin, the faraway, the unfamiliar, and the abstract—an interdisciplinary study on moral cultivation and a response to Prinz. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy. 2018. 17.3: 349-362. Link

Danvers A. F., Hu, J., and M. J. O’Neil (2018), “Emotional Congruence and Judgments of Honesty and Bias,” Collabra: Psychology, 4(1), 40. DOI: Link

 Flanagan, O. & Hu, J. (2011). Han Fei Zi’s philosophical psychology: Human nature, scarcity, and the neo-Darwinian consensus. Journal of Chinese philosophy, 38(2), 293-316.

  ·     Reprinted in J. D.Carlson & A. F. Russell, State of Nature in Comparative PoliticalThought: Western and Non-Western Perspectives (Chapter 2). LexingtonBooks.

Reviews:

The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy, Oxford University Press. Amy Olberding. Journal of Moral Philosophy (2022)19.6. 1660

Between Nature and Person: What the Neo-Confucian Wang Fuzhi Can Teach Us About Ecological Humanism, Comparative and Continental Philosophy. 2018;10.3. Link

"The Emotions in Early Chinese Philosophy." Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 97(2), pp. 421–422. Link