November 14, 2018
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The ISCP just informed its members of the sudden and sad passing of Prof. Vincent Shen, scholar of Chinese philosophy and religion and, since 2000, the Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture at the University of Toronto. He was … Continue reading
October 25, 2018
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THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY Welcomes: Erica Brindley (Penn State University) With a response from: Christopher Gowans (Fordham University) Please join on us at Columbia University’s Religion Department on FRIDAY, November 2nd at 5:30 PM for her lecture entitled: Spontaneous Arising and … Continue reading
October 5, 2018
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THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY Welcomes: Eske Møllgaard (University of Rhose Island) With responses from: Andrew Lambert (College of Staten Island, CUNY) Please join us at Columbia University’s Religion Department on FRIDAY, October 12th at 5:30 PM for his lecture entitled: How I Came to Conclude that Confucian Discourse … Continue reading
July 30, 2018
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I just noticed that the SEP has a new entry on the Xunzi, penned by Paul Goldin (published earlier this month). (Look forward to reading it, Paul!) The older entry, penned by Dan Robins, is linked to at the top … Continue reading
May 19, 2018
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It is with great sadness that I pass along this news. Prof. Kim was a member of the doctoral faculty in political science at the CUNY Graduate Center for over four decades. His research was in comparative political thought. Many … Continue reading
April 25, 2017
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THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY Welcomes: WARREN FRISINA (Hofstra University) With responses from: BONGRAE SEOK (Alvernia University) Please join us at Columbia University’s Religion Department on FRIDAY, MAY 5th at 5:30PM for his lecture entitled: “Forming One Body with All Things: Organicism and the Pursuit of an Embodied … Continue reading
March 22, 2017
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THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY Welcomes: GARY OSTERTAG (CUNY Graduate Center | Nassau Community College) With responses from: GRAHAM PRIEST (CUNY Graduate Center) Please join us at Columbia University’s Religion Department on FRIDAY, MARCH 31st at 5:30PM for his lecture entitled: “The Daoist Dialectic of Enlightenment” ABSTRACT:
March 1, 2017
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It is often remarked that too many papers are published, too few read. This is likely true of our own area of interest here at Warp, Weft, and Way–Chinese philosophy. One way to call more attention to published research and, … Continue reading
February 11, 2017
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Welcomes: CHRISTOPHER GOWANS (Fordham University) With responses from: BRYAN VAN NORDEN (Vassar College) Please join us at Columbia University’s Religion Department on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24th at 5:30PM for his lecture entitled: “Self-Cultivation Philosophy as an Interpretive Framework: The Critique of Desire” ABSTRACT: I will explain and defend … Continue reading
December 5, 2016
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FALL 2016 Logic and Metaphysics Workshop Date: Monday December 12, 4.15-6.15 Place: Room 5382, CUNY Graduate Center. Speaker: Irena Cronin, UCLA Title: The Notion of Accepted Contradiction in Early Chinese Daoism Abstract: Although the representation of the Dao differs a little between … Continue reading
November 17, 2016
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THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY Welcomes: ALEXUS MCLEOD (University of Connecticut) With responses from: ANDREW MEYER (Brooklyn College, CUNY) Please join us at Columbia University’s Religion Department on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2nd at 5:30PM for his lecture entitled: “The Madman of Chu: The Problem of Mental Illness and Self-Cultivation … Continue reading
October 18, 2016
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THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY Welcomes: TONGDONG BAI (Fudan University) With responses from: VIREN MURTHY (University of Wisconsin Madison) Please join us at Columbia University’s Religion Department on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11th at 5:30PM for his lecture entitled: “Pre-Qin Chinese Thought as a Modern Political Philosophy” ABSTRACT: In this … Continue reading
October 5, 2016
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THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY Welcomes: ERIC SCHWITZGEBEL (University of California Riverside) With responses from: CHRISTOPHER GOWANS (Fordham University) Please join us at Columbia University’s Religion Department on *THURSDAY*, OCTOBER 13th at 5:30PM for his lecture entitled: “Death and Self in the Incomprehensible Zhuangzi” ABSTRACT: The ancient Chinese … Continue reading
September 9, 2016
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The next session of the Columbia University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies (University Seminar #567) will convene Friday, September 30, 2016 from 3:30 to 5:30pm in the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. Hagop Sarkissian (City University of New … Continue reading
September 4, 2016
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THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY Welcomes: TAO JIANG (Rutgers University) With responses from: ESKE MØLLGAARD (University of Rhode Island) Please join us at Columbia University’s Religion Department on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23rd at 5:30PM for his lecture entitled: “Between Philosophy and History: The Challenge of Authorship to Classical Chinese Philosophy … Continue reading
