An exciting new book: Bongrae Seok, ed., Naturalism, Human Flourishing, and Asian Philosophy: Owen Flanagan and Beyond © 2020 Routledge/Taylor Francis (Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Series). The Table of Contents follows, and see also here.
Lambert Reviews Olberding at NDPR
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
2020.02.11 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews
Amy Olberding, The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2019, 183pp., $29.95 (hbk), ISBN 9780190880965.
Reviewed by Andrew Lambert, City University of New York, College of Staten Island
Amy Olberding notes that this book is a response to increased polarization and conflict in civil life in the United States (ix). Besides political discourse, the problem of incivility or rudeness is found also in everyday social life — such as what to do when “Uncle Frank” makes offensive remarks about race, sexuality and immigration at the family Thanksgiving dinner (144). Olberding’s response is to turn to the Confucian tradition. The early Confucians’ commitment to civility can help us to re-think social relations, and arrive at an outlook that recognizes the difficulty of bridging gaps between us but also sustains a sense of solidarity.
Job Opening at Tallinn University
Position: Tenure Track Professorship (career level I – Associate Professor)
Tallinn University, School of Humanities
Study Area: Asian Studies
Description: Chinese studies with a strong theoretical background in a subfield of social sciences or the humanities. The candidate will have an academic background that could (but does not need to) involve social or political anthropology, cultural history, studies of contemporary culture, human or political geography, history of ideas, philosophy, or political science.
More information is available here. Deadline for full consideration is March 10, 2020.
CFP: Chapter on Chinese ethics
Tom Angier edited a successful collection in 2012 entitled Ethics: The Key Thinkers (Bloomsbury Academic). Bloomsbury now wants a second edition, and Tom is looking for a new chapter on
Chinese ethics, with a focus on a couple of seminal thinkers from the Chinese tradition(s).
You can find the original version here.
Tom would be looking at a first draft being submitted by spring 2021. If interested, please contact him directly.
CFP: Confucianism: Comparisons and Controversies
Call for Papers: Confucianism: Comparisons and Controversies
Professors Eirik Harris (Hong Kong Baptist University) and Henrique Schneider (Nordakademie) are guest editing volume 8.2 of the Journal Culture and Dialogue (Brill).
The guest editors seek 7-10 papers of high quality on topics related to Chinese philosophy, particularly engaging with all different types of Confucianism. This can occur from a perspective rooted within Chinese philosophy as well as in a comparative approach. The guest editors seek to put together a diverse special issue covering Classical Confucianism as well as contemporary themes for an audience that includes non-specialists in Chinese philosophy.
Call for proposals: Philosophy Compass
The Chinese comparative philosophy section of Philosophy Compass is seeking paper submissions.
Philosophy Compass is an online, blind peer-reviewed journal from Wiley-Blackwell. It has an SCImago Quartile 1 ranking. The journal publishes original survey articles (approx. 5,000 words), which summarise the state of the field for non-specialists. They can discuss recent research or debates in a field, provide a comparative look across boundaries/disciplines, or offer a fresh perspective on a controversial topic. Authors are also encouraged to present their own perspective. Click here to see the list of papers in this section.
If you have a paper you wish to be considered for publication, please get in touch with me: k.lai@unsw.edu.au
Author meets critics session at Central APA on Stalnaker, Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority
The Central Division Meeting of the APA is this week. There will be a session on Aaron Stalnaker’s new book, Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority on Friday morning from 9 to noon.
Chair: Michael Slater (Georgetown University)
Author: Aaron Stalnaker (Indiana University)
Critics: Nancy Snow (University of Oklahoma)
Brad Cokelet (University of Kansas)
Patricia Marechal (Northwestern University)
Richard Kim (Loyola University Chicago)
If you’re in Chicago for the APA, please come by!
A good point against the “meritocracy myth” (and lots of anger)
Here is a sharp analysis of the recent crisis in China which, I guess, will interest many of you. The author writes: “If anything, Wuhan bankrupted the meritocracy myth for many people who once believed that the country was largely run by no-nonsense, result-oriented technocrats.” One starts wondering when exactly those scholars who have been praising China’s so called “meritocracy” as superior to (Western) liberal democracies will start taking (social and political) reality into account. Does it make sense to say that this still is merely a bad reality contradicting a normative ideal?!
New Book: Bell and Wang, Just Hierarchy
Daniel A. Bell (贝淡宁) and Wang Pei (汪沛)’s new book Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World will be officially published by Princeton University Press in March but advance copies have arrived in the warehouse and the book can be ordered on the PUP website. Please enter discount code C285 for 30% off. The discount expires June 30, 2020. For more information from the press, read on.
Ivanhoe at Columbia Neo-Confucianism Seminar
The first Spring session of the Columbia Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies (University Seminar #567) will convene on February 7th, from 3:30 to 5:30pm in the main board room of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.
The speaker will be Philip J. Ivanhoe, who will be sharing his “Dasan on ‘Sympathetic Consideration’ (恕, Seo)“. This presentation will fill out and in some cases correct his earlier views on Dasan’s conception of 恕.
