Author Archives: Steve Angle

Ivanhoe Reviews Tsui, Affective Betrayal

P.J. Ivanhoe has published a review of Jean Tsui’s book, Affective Betrayal: Mind, Music, and Embodied Action in Late Qing China (SUNY, 2024). The review opens:

This book displays vast erudition, moves nimbly across a number of disciplines, and presents complex, interlocking arguments aimed at showing how Liang Qichao (1873-1929) presented modern political knowledge in musical and visual terms that were designed to stimulate his readers’ bodily senses and motivate them to become committed to and act on behalf of the views he advocated.

Two Articles on Wang Yangming

I am pleased to share that the following two articles have recently been published:

Stephen C. Angle (2026). “A Halfhearted Defense of the Perceptual Model of Wang Yangming’s ‘Genuine Knowing’.” Ergo: an Open Access Journal of Philosophy 13: 43. https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.11001

Stephen C. Angle and Chi-keung Chan (2026). “Affective Knowing in Wang Yangming.” European Journal of Philosophy. Early View. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.70122

Job Opening: Georgetown University in Qatar

Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) invites applications for one (1) open-rank core faculty position in Philosophy.

The successful candidate will hold a Ph.D. in philosophy, or a closely related field, and will have a research focus in one or more of the following areas: non-Western philosophy (especially Islamic and Arabic philosophy, African/Africana philosophy, Asian philosophy), Continental philosophy, philosophy of science (broadly construed), philosophy of social science, or applied ethics. They will contribute to the foundational and upper-level offerings of the Culture and Politics (CULP) major and to the BSFS core curriculum and must be able to teach a course in Political and Social Thought.

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Wong reviews Kim, The Art of Seeing Beyond Oneself

Doil Kim, The Art of Seeing Beyond Oneself: A Confucian Perspective on Humility, Oxford University Press, 2025, 184pp., $99.00 (hbk) ISBN 9780197834213.

Reviewed by David B. Wong, Duke University

Doil Kim identifies Confucian humility as a form of “self-lowering”. Other forms under this capacious heading have been criticized as prescribing self-effacement or self-sacrifice. Failure to distinguish Confucian humility from such other forms has resulted in confusion and unclarity as to what humility is, and most importantly, has obscured how Confucian humility can play a constructive role in shaping personhood in the sense of a “good and ethically formed human being” (1). Kim’s aim is to make the case for Confucian humility, based on a textual analysis of early Confucian and medieval Neo-Confucian texts, followed by a discussion of how…

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Concerns about the Journal of Daoist Studies

It has been brought to my attention that the Journal of Daoist Studies seems to have been hijacked. The journal published legitimate Daoism research up to and including the beginning of this year, but since then it has published hundreds of articles unrelated to Daoism. The journal homepage still claims that it is published out of University of Hawaii Press and links to the volumes that contain legitimate articles. But visiting the archive reveals the irrelevant articles:

https://journalofdaoiststudies.org/index.php/journal/issue/archive

If anyone has insight into this situation, please share!