Time: April 17-18, 2020
Venue: Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University
Proposals/bios due: November 25, 2019 (5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time)
Notification of acceptance by: January 16, 2020
Full papers due: March 10, 2020
Please download the event flyer here.
Hello all,
I will be giving a talk on the future of Confucianism in America at the San Francisco City Library on Sunday, September 29. It will be on the third floor at 1:30pm. All are welcome.
Routledge has published a collection of essays on role ethics edited by Tim Dare and Christine Swanton, which includes two essays on early Confucian ethics. More information is here.
The publisher’s description is as follows:
Although our moral lives would be unrecognisable without them, roles have received little attention from analytic moral philosophers. Roles are central to our lives and to our engagement with one another, and should be analysed in connection with our core notions of ethics such as virtue, reason, and obligation.
This volume aims to redress the neglect of role ethics by confronting the tensions between conceptions of impartial morality and role obligations in the history of analytic philosophy and the Confucian tradition. Different perspectives on the ethical significance of roles can be found by looking to debates within professional and applied ethics, by challenging existing accounts of how roles generate reasons, by questioning the hegemony of ethical reasons, and by exploring the relation between expertise and virtue. The essays tackle several core questions related to these debates:
What are roles and what is their normative import?
To what extent are roles and the ethics of roles central to ethics as opposed to virtue in general, and obligation in general?
Are role obligations characteristically incompatible with ordinary morality in professions such as business, law, and medicine?
How does practical reason function in relation to roles?
Perspectives in Role Ethics is an examination of a largely neglected topic in ethics. It will appeal to a broad range of scholars in normative ethics, virtue ethics, non-Western ethics, and applied ethics interested in the importance of roles in our moral life.
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research has published a book symposium on Philip J. Ivanhoe’s recent book, Oneness: East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We All Are Connected. It includes a précis to the book by Ivanhoe and responses from Julianne Chung, Owen Flanagan, and Graham Priest, as well as replies from Ivanhoe. The exchange is rich and elaborates on issues in Ivanhoe’s book in constructive and eye-opening ways. The articles are linked here. Be sure to click on the “more” button in the bottom, right-hand corner to get access to all of the essays.
The next session of the Columbia University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies will convene on Friday, Oct 4th, from 3:30 to 5:30pm, in the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.
Our speaker will be On-Cho Ng, who will be presenting his paper “Qing Philosophy”. Please contact Chuyu Tian, Rapporteur for the Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies, if you would like a copy of the paper in advance.
The American Association of Philosophy Teachers is a community of faculty, teachers, and grad students who are passionate about teaching and learning in philosophy, and every two years we have a conference with sessions focused entirely on that. Sessions are interactive and hands on, and a great way to connect with colleagues who enjoy talking and sharing ideas about teaching.
We are inviting proposals for our 2020 workshop/conference, to be held at Otterbein University (Ohio, USA) July 22-25, 2020. Please see the CfP. Proposals due January 17, 2020.
We are interested in proposals in all areas of teaching and learning in philosophy, though are particularly interested in (among other things):
Questions can be sent to Christina Hendricks (christina.hendricks@ubc.ca) or to the Program Chair, Jane Drexler (jane.drexler@slcc.edu).
The University of Toronto has announced a search for an Associate Professor or Professor, eligible to be appointed as Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture. The appointment is to be in one or more of the departments of East Asian Studies, Philosophy, and the Study of Religion. Details are here.
Andrew Lambert’s translation of Li Zehou’s A History of Classical Chinese Thought (中国古代思想史论) has just come out with Routledge. More information is here.
The publisher’s description:
Li Zehou is widely regarded as one of China’s most influential contemporary thinkers. He has produced influential theories of the development of Chinese thought and the place of aesthetics in Chinese ethics and value theory. This book is the first English-language translation of Li Zehou’s work on classical Chinese thought. It includes chapters on the classical Chinese thinkers, including Confucius, Mozi, Laozi, Sunzi, Xunzi and Zhuangzi, and also on later eras and thinkers such as Dong Zhongshu in the Han Dynasty and the Song-Ming Neo-Confucians.
The essays in this book not only discuss these historical figures and their ideas, but also consider their historical significance, and how key themes from these early schools reappeared in and shaped later periods and thinkers. Taken together, they highlight the breadth of Li Zehou’s scholarship and his syncretic approach—his explanations of prominent thinkers and key periods in Chinese intellectual history blend ideas from both the Chinese and Western canons, while also drawing on contemporary thinkers in both traditions. The book also includes an introduction written by the translator that helpfully explains the significance of Li Zehou’s work and its prospects for fostering cross-cultural dialogue with Western philosophy.
A History of Chinese Classical Thought will be of interest to advanced students and scholars interested in Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy, and Chinese intellectual and social history.
Justin Tiwald (San Francisco State University) will be giving a public lecture on “Moral Expertise: Confucian Philosophers on Deference and Deliberative Autonomy” during his visit to Washington College on Oct. 16, from 6:30-8:00pm. More information can be found on the flyer here.
The terrific ethics blog PEA Soup has initiated a series of discussions on Cross-Cultural Normative Philosophy; details on the series, including planned future installments, are here.
The first discussion, already underway, is of Richard Kim’s “Human Nature and Moral Sprouts: Mencius on the Pollyanna Problem.” Access to the paper and discussion is here.
Thanks to Brad Cokelet for spearheading this initiative!
