The College of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University is hosting a lecture by Brook Ziporyn of the University of Chicago, titled “Unknow Thyself: Agnosis as Superpower in the Zhuangzi,” on Thursday April 3rd, at 4:30pm in the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies Seminar Room (343 Washington Terrace, Middletown CT). Ziporyn will explore non-knowledge’s ability to enhance self and social reform. All are welcome!
ToC: Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture 43
Volume 43 (February 2025) of The Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture is published. This issue features the special topic, “Comparative Perspectives on the Future of Cosmopolitanism (II),” guest edited by Philip J. Ivanhoe. Continuing from Vol. 42, this collection, supported by the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown University, expands the discourse with six additional articles. A general response by Owen Flanagan offers reflections on the discussions presented across both volumes.
Additionally, this issue includes a special section, Scholar’s Corner, featuring an article on Confucian responses to same-sex marriage. It also presents a book review of Emotions in Korean Philosophy and Religion: Confucian, Comparative, and Contemporary Perspectives by Lu-Vada Dunford. The full volume is available at https://jcpc.skku.edu/.
Book discussion of Professor Jin Li’s The Self in the West and East Asia
On March 27th at 20:00 Beijing time the 四海为学 Collaborative Learning Project will host a book discussion of Professor Jin Li’s The Self in the West and East Asia: Being or Becoming.
For details and the Zoom link please see our event page: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/li-jin-book-discussion
(Note that no pre-registration or passcode is required.)
For a list of upcoming events see our calendar here. Please feel free to advertise this or share it with anyone. All our events are free and open to everyone.
Hybrid Workshop on Interpersonal Harmony
A workshop, “Interpersonal Harmony in Comparative Philosophy,” is scheduled for April 10–11, 2025, and will be held in person at Duke University, with a virtual attendance option available.
The event will bring together scholars specializing in early Chinese and Greek thought to explore various aspects of interpersonal harmony, including its ethical, political, and metaphysical dimensions. The event will feature contributions from prominent scholars such as Agnes Callard, Chenyang Li, C.D.C. Reeve, and David Wong.
Full details and registration information are available on the following event website: Comparative Philosophy Workshop – April 2025.
Call for Applications – Social Ontology in Wuhan: A Summer School
The School of Philosophy at Wuhan University is pleased to invite applications for its 2025 Social Ontology Summer School. The Summer School will explore various topics in social ontology, including collective intentionality, metaphysics of social categories, Chinese social thought, and philosophical issues in the social sciences. It will take place June 5th through 8th, 2025. Planned speakers include Peter Finocchiaro (Wuhan University), Gina Lebkuecher (Wuhan University), Michael Longenecker (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law), Rachel Sterken (Hong Kong University), Shuchen Xiang 项舒晨 (Xidian University), and Hwa Yeong Wang (Duke Kunshan University).
The Summer School is funded by the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University and the International Social Ontology Society.
Applications are due by April 15th, and are open to undergraduate and graduate students within China. Travel and lodging expenses will be covered for accepted applicants. Please see the Wuhan University website post, linked here for more information about how to apply.
New Article: Brys, “Action-based Benevolence”
The European Journal of Philosophy has just published Waldemar Brys’s essay “Action-Based Benevolence”; see here. This provocative paper is the first essay specifically on Chinese philosophy in the EJP, which now joins the list of “mainstream” journals that have published works of Chinese or comparative philosophy.
If you publish in a journal outside of the specialist journals that we try to routinely track here at Warp, Weft, and Way, by all means let us know and we’ll share the news.
Read on for the Abstract.
2025 CSCS-ATI Summer School-Buridan and the Buddha: Nominalism and Universals from East to West
Please see here for more information about “2025 CSCS-ATI Summer School, Buridan and the Buddha: Nominalism and Universals from East to West,” which will be held at at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China. The co-leaders are Prof. Vincent Eltschinger (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) and Dr. Boaz Schuman (KU Leuven).
Episode 18 of “This Is the Way”: Neo-Confucian Metaphysics
Much of the technical philosophy of Confucianism was developed by sophisticated thinkers that came well after the time of Confucius, starting in the Song dynasty. This episode is our first devoted to the foremost of these “Neo-Confucians,” Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130-1200 CE). To help us with this introduction, we are joined by special guest Stephen C. Angle, one of the leading scholars of Neo-Confucianism. Continue reading →
SDCF 10th Summer Program in Chinese Studies
SDCF is excited to announce that we will be running the “10th Greater China Region Summer Program in Chinese Studies” for 2025! We are conducting the program both in person and with an online viewing option, with participation from both scholars and key opinion leaders.
Please refer to our webpage (https://sinological.org/) or send email to info@sinological.org for more information. Scholarships are available for those with a degree in the topics of the program, but also online viewer or self-funding options could be selected for those without background.
Lei and Zhao review Meynard and Major, eds., Dao Companion to Liang Shuming’s Philosophy
The latest issue of Chinese Literature and Thought Today contains a review by Jiahao Lei & Ziqiang Zhao of Thierry Meynard and Philippe Major, eds., Dao Companion to Liang Shuming’s Philosophy (Spring 2023).
