Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 21:4 has recently been published. This new issue contains 13 articles. Please read below for a table of contents.
Category Archives: Comparative philosophy
33rd Comparative Philosophy Workshop
Sun Yet-sen University is happy to announce that they will be hosting the 33rd Comparative Philosophy Workshop:
Topic: “It all lies in showing the proper countenance: Confucian relationality as ethical challenge.”
Speaker: Sor-hoon TAN (Professor of Philosophy, Singapore Management University)
Moderator: Jun-Hyeok KWAK (Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University)
Time: November 24th, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm (Beijing Time)
Virtual Meeting through VooV
Please click here to sign up and here for more information about the workshop.
Sor-hoon TAN is Professor of Philosophy and Academic Director of Politics, Law and Economics at Singapore Management University. Professor TAN received her Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2000 and before joining the faculty of Singapore Management University, she taught at National University of Singapore. Her main teaching and research interests are in Confucianism, Chinese Political Thought, John Dewey’s Pragmatist Philosophy, and Democratic Theory. She has published numerous books and articles including Confucian Democracy — A Deweyan Reconstruction of Confucianism (State University of New York, 2004) and Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies (Bloomsbury 2016).
New Book: Tseng, Confucian Liberalism
SUNY is publishing Roy Tseng (Academia Sinica in Taiwan)’s Confucian Liberalism: Mou Zongsan and Hegelian Liberalism. For more information, see here. Congratulations, Roy!
CFP: European Association for Chinese Philosophy
The 4th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy (EACP) will take place in Macerata, Italy on June 16-18, 2023. The theme for the conference is “Interpretation and reinvention”. Scholars interested in Chinese philosophy and philosophy in China are invited to submit proposals for individual papers or panels to Selusi Ambrogio. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2022. Click here for more information on submissions and the conference as a whole.
Job Openings: National Taiwan University
The Department of Philosophy at National Taiwan University is inviting applications for three job openings, in Pre-Qin Confucianism, Ethics, and Comparative Philosophy. The teaching appointments are effective from August 1, 2023. Please click here for the full job descriptions and how to apply.
ToC: T’oung Pao
A new issue of T’oung Pao has been published on November 10th, 2022. Click below to see the table of contents.
Online Conference: Comparative Philosophy Workshop
The Sun Yat-sen University is happy to announce that they are hosting the 31st Comparative Philosophy Workshop: Franklin Perkins will present “The Problem of Evil in Early Chinese Philosophy.” The workshop will be held virtually from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Beijing Time), on November 11th (Friday), 2022. Click here to sign up for the workshop. Should you have any question about the meeting, please email to the workshop coordinator, JIA Yongze jiayongze97@163.com
Confucianism at 2022 American Academy of Religion meetings
The American Academy of Religion is happy to announce that they will be having a 2022 meeting in Denver. The conference will have three sessions sponsored by the Confucian Traditions Unit. The meetings will be taking place November 19-22 in Denver Colorado. The three main themes are as follows: “Confucianism Enchanted: Narratives and Liturgies of Confucian Deities,” “Author Meets Critics: Mercedes Valmisa’s Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action,” and roundtable on Tao Jiang’s book Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China. See here to for more information on the conference itself, and read on for details on the three panels.
Register for NECCT 2022!
The 2022 version of the Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought (NECCT) is coming up in two weeks (Nov 12-13) — for more information and to register, see here. Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner on Saturday, and Breakfast on Sunday will be provided for all registered attendees.
New Book: Ziran: The Philosophy of Spontaneous Self-Causation
I’d like to announce the publication of my new book Ziran: The Philosophy of Spontaneous Self-Causation. Targeted specifically at students, this book takes a key concept form early Chinese metaphysics—ziran 自然—and applies it to several fields of contemporary scholarship.
