The latest issue of Frontiers of Philosophy in China has been published, with a special focus on the challenge that excavated texts pose to Chinese philosophical research today. Until the end of August, the full issue (full text) is available here to read or download. The full Table of Contents follows.
Frontiers of Philosophy in China
Volume 11·Number 2·June 2016
CONTENTS
Special Theme: Excavated Manuscripts from Antiquity
Dennis Schilling / Introduction to the Special Theme—A Challenge for Chinese Philosophical Research Today 163
GUO Yi / Research Findings Concerning Excavated Texts and Learning in Early China 168
Franklin Perkins / The Laozi and the Cosmogonic Turn in Classical Chinese Philosophy 185
DING Sixin / A Study of the Key Concepts “Heng” and “Hengxian” in the Hengxian on Chu Bamboo Slips Housed at the Shanghai Museum 206
WANG Miquan / The Meaning of Xing形and Moral Transformation in Wuxing 222
CHEN Jie / Origins of Numbers in Shifa of Tsinghua Bamboo Slip Manuscripts 236
Research Articles
HE Chaoan / What Is Not So Fine with Fine’s Critique of the Modal Account of Essence 250
NIE Chenwei / Delusional Beliefs, Two-Factor Theories, and Bizarreness 263
López-Astorga Miguel / Logic, Pragmatics, and Types of Conditionals 279
LI Guiyan / Nietzsche’s Nihilism 298
Book Reviews
T.C. Kline III and Justin Tiwald, eds., Ritual and Religion in the Xunzi (reviewed by David Chai) 320
Kari Weil, Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now? (reviewed by William Edelglass) 324