Sonya Ozbey has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Chinese Philosophy, jointly appointed in Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and in the Department of Philosophy, at the University of Michigan. Ozbey received her PhD from DePaul University, where she studied with Frank Perkins, and is currently Tang Junyi Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Michigan. Her research areas are Classical Chinese Philosophy, Early Modern European Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, and Animality Studies. There’s a nice on-line interview with her here.
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Angle reviews Kim, Public Reason Confucianism
My review of Sungmoon Kim, Public Reason Confucianism: Democratic Perfectionism and Constitutionalism in East Asia (Cambridge, 2016) recently appeared in Ethics 127:3. The first paragraph of the review follows. A pre-publication version of the whole review is available here.
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El Amine to speak on Confucian Political Thought at NUS
Loubna El Amine will speak at the National University of Singapore on March 23; her topic is “The Problem of Political Order in Classical Confucian Thought.” Details here.
CFP: MANCEPT workshop: Confucian Political Theory
Manchester Workshops for Political Theory, Monday 11 September to Wednesday 13 September, 2017
Conveners: Elton Chan (Yale-NUS College), Larry Lai (University of Hong Kong) and Baldwin Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Venue: Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester
Abstracts of 500-1000 words, prepared for blind review, are due by 26th May, 2017; see below for further details.
In recent years there has been an increasing interest among Anglo-American political theorists in comparing the diverse ways of how the Western and Chinese thinkers address political issues.
