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.
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.
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
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!
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?!
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.
Philip J. Ivanhoe’s article, “How Confucius loses face in China’s new surveillance regime” has been published at Aeon. For the full article, click the URL below:
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-confucius-loses-face-in-chinas-new-surveillance-regime
Paul D’Ambrosio in Los Angeles Review of Books on the Proliferation of Profilicity: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-proliferation-of-profilicity/
The Chinese-language “Confucian Web” (儒家网) has announced its top 10 books of 2019, in both Academic and General categories. Read on for the lists and short descriptions!
