Lisa Raphals is a contemporary scholar of comparative philosophy specializing in early Chinese and ancient Greek thought. She is known for her work on divination, fate, and gender in classical traditions, as well as close textual analysis of early Confucian and Daoist texts. Her comparative methodology has contributed to cross-cultural approaches to epistemology, ethics, and cosmology.
Authored Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece (2013), a major comparative study
Wrote Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece (1992)
Contributed comparative analysis of Xunzi and Mencius on human nature and moral cultivation
Advanced cross-cultural scholarship on representations of women and virtue in early China
Professor at UC Riverside bridging philosophy and East Asian studies