Brook Ziporyn (University of Chicago), will give a talk, “Everything Everywhere All at Once: The Buddha-Nature According to Tiantai and What To Do About It, If Anything,” at Rutgers New Brunswick campus on Thursday, October 23, 2025, 4-5:30pm. Here’s the link to the talk:
The talk is also available on Zoom. Check the website for the registration link. Please drop me a note if you are coming in person. Thanks.
According to a speaker in a famous historical dialogue, “A white horse is not a horse.” In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Lisa Indraccolo (Tallinn University) to unpack one of the most intriguing discourses in early Chinese philosophy—the White Horse Dialogue from the Gongsun Longzi. Together, we explore what this paradoxical statement reveals about language, logic, and categorization in early China, from the connection between words and reality to the ways that set theory, semantics, and metaphysics might be used to help us understand this fascinating text. Continue reading →
The online course “Worldmodels & Ontologies: Visions of Reality in Chinese Thought” will be running from Thursday, 16 October to Thursday, 18 December 2025. This seminar is designed in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Zurich, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and National Chengchi University (NCCU). Scholars, students, and practitioners are warmly invited to join this collaborative exploration of how different textual traditions in China have structured their visions of reality. Please find the course description and schedule here.
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Mercedes Valmisa’s All Things Act has recently been published through Oxford University Press. Please read more to find the description of the book and see here to access the full book. Continue reading →
The upcoming hybrid workshop “Friendship in Chinese Thought: Theories, Issues, and Perspectives” will be held at Lanzhou University and virtually on zoom. This workshop will bring together scholars and students to explore the rich and multifaceted ways friendship has been theorized, debated, and applied within the Chinese intellectual tradition. Please read here for the full schedule of the workshop and to access the zoom link. Continue reading →
The College of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University invites applications for a Visiting Professor or Visiting Instructor in Pre-Modern Chinese Philosophy and Culture, to begin in January 2026. Term of appointment is one semester. The successful candidate will teach three courses, with no advising or service expectations. One course will be Classical Chinese Philosophy; the other two courses can be in philosophy or other humanistic disciplines so long as the focus is on pre-twentieth century China. Review of applications will begin on October 17th and will continue until the position has been filled
For more information and to apply, please see here.
The Division of Humanities of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) invites applications for a substantiation-track position in Philosophy, with an expected starting date of 2 July 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications at all ranks (Assistant Professor / Associate Professor / Professor) are invited, though applications at the level of Professor and Associate Professor with substantiation is especially welcomed. While the subject area is open, a research background in Confucianism – and/or expertise in ethics, bioethics, moral philosophy, religion, or other areas of contemporary relevance – would be an advantage; strong applicants in other areas are also welcome to apply. Please read this file for full description of the position and the application guidelines.
The editors of the Journal of Global Ethics announce an open call for new editors to join our team during the course of 2026, particularly seeking to appoint editors with expertise in non-Western philosophy and also editors with experience or academic positions outside the Global North. Please read more for information about the position.
