School of Philosophy, Fudan University, will host a conference on “Timothy Williamson Encountering Chinese Philosophy” on November 6-7, 2026. This is the 4th event in the conference/book series of “Fudan Studies of Encountering Chinese Philosophy”, following the ones focused on Michael Slote, Ernest Sosa, and Simon Blackburn respectively. This one is focused on the work of Timothy Williamson. Following the previous practice in the series, there will be a dozen or so scholars of Chinese philosophy critically engaging various aspects of Williamson’s philosophy by drawing on various aspects of Chinese philosophy, to which Williamson makes responses. Revised versions of these critical comments and responses will be collected into an edited volume, with the same title of the conference, in the series mentioned above.

This call for paper is addressed to scholars of Chinese philosophy who are interested in Williamson’s work. As the first step, we call for expressions of interests and abstracts of papers. The deadline is March 15, and we will announce the result by the end of March. We will provide airfare and room and board in the duration of the conference for all participants at the conference.

Please send your expressions of interests/abstracts of papers to: yonghuang@fudan.edu.cn

From Dimitra Amarantidou and Thomas Michael…

We are writing to share the Call for Papers for a joint special issue entitled Walking, Wandering, and Journeying: Approaches from Chinese and Greek Thought, to be published in Religions and Philosophies.

With this joint special issue we aim to open new, exciting dialogues between the Chinese and Greek philosophical and religious traditions. We invite you to contribute papers that explore the themes of walking, wandering, and journeying as guiding metaphors and embodied practices, whether within a single tradition or from a comparative perspective. The following timeline gives everyone ample time to develop their ideas:

• Abstract Submission Deadline: January 30, 2026
  
• Full Manuscript Submission Deadline: September 30, 2026
  

This schedule is designed to allow for preparation and may also align with the related “Way and Being: Between Daoist and Presocratic Approaches” Workshop planned in Germany (Tübingen) on 24-30 August, 2026, offering a potential venue for early discussion of your work.
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This special issue of Synthese invites contributions that explore the philosophical implications of generative AI and examine what philosophy can contribute to its development and understanding. Submissions that bring together Eastern and Western perspectives, fostering dialogue across traditions and intellectual borders are especially welcomed. Please read more for the submission guidelines and more information on the special issue. Continue reading →

Lance Gracy is seeking abstracts for an upcoming edited volume on Franciscan and Neo-Confucian philosophy. The contributed works would assess anew the “metaxological space” of Franciscan and Neo-Confucian philosophy with the aim of conveying the mutual flowering and divergence between the two traditions. With  renewed interest in comparative philosophy, the objective of the upcoming edited volume is to intellectually undertake the challenge of discovering indelible species in a “land”—still somewhat obscured—nestled between two expansive world traditions, so to better situate them within contemporary context. While most adjacent scholarship addressing the dynamism of the two traditions is historical or piece-meal, sustained philosophical analysis of the space between them remains an alluring frontier with signs of both difficulty and promise.

For more information, see here; the deadline is October 3.