The latest issue of Philosophy East and West is available, including symposia on Daniel Bell’s The China Model and Bryan Van Norden’s Taking Back Philosophy, as well as a rich range of articles and reviews. See here.
Funded 4-year PhD Positions in Philosophy at the University of Macau
The UM Macao PhD Scholarship provides each awardee with a monthly stipend of MOP 20,000 (approx. GBP 2,000) and a conference or research-related travel allowance up to MOP 10,000 (approx. GBP 1,000) per academic year for a period up to 4 years. Tuition fees are not included.
CFP: ECNU International Graduate Philosophy Conference, Shanghai
The East China Normal University (ECNU) Graduate Philosophy Conference will take place on 7-9 November 2019 and will focus on frontier themes present in philosophies of the world in light of our ever-increasingly globalized context. Keynote speakers will include Roger T. Ames (Peking University) and Paul J. D’Ambrosio (ECNU). The title of the conference will be Theory (li 理) and Practice (shi 事) in Chinese and Western Traditions.
Applicants should prepare a presentation in English or Chinese approximately 20 minutes in length and submit to ecnuphilosophy@outlook.com before the deadline, September 23, along with the applicant’s name, nationality and the name of the university at which they are enrolled.
New Book: Skill and Mastery: Philosophical Stories from the Zhuangzi
This valuable collection of illuminating analysis of skill stories from the Zhuangzi, a 4th century BCE Daoist text opens up new lines of inquiry in comparative East-West philosophical debates on skill, cultivation and mastery, as well as cross-disciplinary debates in psychology, cognitive science and philosophy.
Thanks to the editors of the series, PJ Ivanhoe, Sungmoon Kim and Eirik Lang Harris.
What a delight for Wai Wai Chiu and me to work with such amazing contributors: Frank Perkins, David Machek, Timothy Connolly, Romain Graziani, Steve Coutinho, Eric Schwitzgebel, James Sellman, Lisa Raphals, Chris Fraser, Wim De Reu, Albert Galvany, Chong Kim-chong and Hans-Georg Moeller.
https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/skill_and_mastery/3-156-69c8f1cc-26a8-4f2f-93c9-c833de2da7a7
ISCWP Newsletter
The August 2019 ISCWP Newsletter has been published. This issue features:
1/Updates from several of the society’s members on their various activities
2/A call for panel/paper proposals and volunteers for the 2020 APA-Pacific Division Meeting in San Francisco
3/Notice of group sessions at the 2020 APA-Eastern Division Meeting in Philadelphia
4/Notice of group session at the 2020 APA-Central Division Meeting in Chicago
5/A call for dues and donations
This and past newsletters are available on the ISCWP web site at the following address:
Three reviews in JAS
The most recent issue of the Journal of Asian Studies has reviews of three books of interest to readers of this blog:
- Curie Virag reviews Michael Nylan, The Chinese Pleasure Book (Zone Books, 2018)
- Yunte Huang reviews Haun Saussy, Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (Oxford, 2017)
- Patrick Buck reviews Bryan Van Norden, Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto (Columbia, 2017)
Van Norden Returning to Vassar
Bryan Van Norden has announced that 2019-2020 will be his last year at Yale-NUS. Beginning in 2020-2021 he will return to Vassar as the James Monroe Taylor Chair in Philosophy.
New translation of Xinyu 新語
Just a quick announcement that Elisa Levi Sabattini and I are about to publish a new translation of Xinyu:
https://brill.com/view/title/56294?rskey=msXfbz&result=1
Also watch out for my new book on classical Chinese philosophy, forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Since I’m not ashamed of self-promotion, I’ll be posting with details in due course.
Book of Interest: Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers by Yan Xuetong
About this Book
A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the international order.
For more information, please see the publisher website or below.
New Books: Behuniak, Experiments in Intra-cultural Philosophy
SUNY has brought out a major work by Jim Behuniak: John Dewey and Daoist Thought: Experiments in Intra-cultural Philosophy, Volume One and John Dewey and Confucian Thought Experiments in Intra-cultural Philosophy, Volume Two.
There is also a significant savings in buying the two volume set; see here. Congratulations, Jim! Summaries follow.
Volume One:
In this timely and original work, Dewey’s late-period “cultural turn” is recovered and “intra-cultural philosophy” proposed as its next logical step—a step beyond what is commonly known as comparative philosophy. The first of two volumes, John Dewey and Daoist Thought argues that early Chinese thought is poised to join forces with Dewey in meeting our most urgent cultural needs: namely, helping us to correct our outdated Greek-medieval assumptions, especially where these result in pre-Darwinian inferences about the world.
