Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Conference 2015
Call for Papers
Asian Perspectives on Mind, Action and Cultivation
Conference Details
The ASACP Conference 2015 will be hosted by Monash University.
Dates: 10 July (Friday) – 12 July (Sunday) 2015
Venue: Monash University Caulfield Campus, Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Ryan Nichols and Ted Slingerland, both longtime readers of this blog, write with an invitation to blog readers to help them out by participating in an experiment. Read on!
Dear Warp, Weft, and Way users,
As affiliates of the University of British Columbia’s Cultural Evolution of Religion Consortium (CERC), we write to invite Warp, Weft, & Way users with some training in classical Chinese to participate in an experiment. Several years ago we embarked on a project to use quantitative methods of analysis, including statistical testing and unsupervised data mining, in order to gain new insights into classical Chinese texts. Our corpus, drawn from Donald Sturgeon’s ctext.org, a resource we all know and enjoy, contains over 5 million characters from texts that date from pre-Warring States through the Tang.
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
2015.02.31 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews
Sungmoon Kim, Confucian Democracy in East Asia: Theory and Practice, Cambridge University Press, 2014, 321pp., $29.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781107641211.
Reviewed by Loubna El Amine, Georgetown University
Sungmoon Kim’s book offers an important and passionate defense of democracy, especially as it applies to East Asian countries. It moves the current debate on the topic from the question of whether democracy is relevant to, and compatible with, the East Asian context, to the question of “the particular mode of Confucian democracy” that is suitable for East Asia (247). In other words, the starting premise of Kim’s inquiry is the simple fact that democracy does already exist in that part of the world, including in South Korea, Taiwan, and (“arguably,” according to Kim), in Hong Kong (247). The question then is, what form of democracy does, will, and should work in East Asia?
I post here the latest Quarterly E-Newsletter of the North American Korean Philosophy Association (No. 5, February, 2015).
The NAKPA COURIER
New Year’s Greetings from the Desktop Editor
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Greetings once again from Omaha, Nebraska, US, in the year of the “Goat”! I hope this letter finds you and all your loved ones well.
Actually, this post is less interesting philosophically than it sounds, though it concerns something that is important to Steve Angle and me in our roles serving as administrators of this blog. This post will remain on top for a bit, then its contents will be moved to the introductory side menu. PLEASE READ:
New Comments/Discussion Policy: We will be implementing, going forward, a policy that comment or discussion authors identify themselves by their actual full names (“last”/family name and given name), at least once in a post or discussion string, if their logged-in names do not already indicate them. It would also be good to have some small self-identifying epithet after a name — either an institutional affiliation, something like “no affiliation, (city name),” or anything else that helps to contextualize one’s identity. Any official contributors to the blog who are listed in the Contributors list can simply put “(see Contributors list)” after their names.
CALL FOR PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS
Including for a Special Workshop on How to Incorporate Asian Texts into Traditional Philosophy Courses
2016 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
January 6-9, 2016, Washington, DC
The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy welcomes proposals for our panels at the American Philosophical Association’s Eastern Division meeting. Proposals regarding any aspect of Asian or comparative philosophy are welcome.
This year, we especially welcome paper and panel proposals for a Special Workshop on How to Incorporate Asian Texts into Traditional Philosophy Courses. Workshop papers should be targeted at non-Asianists who want to incorporate Asian texts into a traditional philosophy course. Proposals for incorporating Asian texts into courses in any area of philosophy are welcome, including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, introductory courses, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, moral psychology, logic, environmental philosophy, philosophy of gender, philosophy of law, social/political philosophy, etc.
Whether for the special workshop or other areas of Asian and comparative philosophy, please submit individual paper abstracts or complete panel proposals.
Paper abstracts should be 150-200 words in length.
Complete panel proposals should include: panel title, a 150 word introduction to the theme of the panel, and a 150 word abstract for each of the papers.
Include each presenter’s name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation.
No simultaneous submissions, please.
Please submit these materials no later than May 7 to Brian Bruya at bbruya@emich.edu.
I’d like to call your attention to a valuable essay on “Comparative Political Theory”: Diego von Vacano, “The Scope of Comparative Political Theory,” Annual Review of Political Science.
From Matthew Pierlott at West Chester University:
West Chester University of Pennsylvania is seeking applicants for the position of Assistant Professor of Philosophy, tenure-track position, to begin August 2015. AOS: Asian Philosophy; AOC: Open. The Department awards both BA and MA degrees in Philosophy, BA degrees in Religious Studies, and Graduate Certificate Programs in Applied Ethics. Normal teaching load 12 hrs/semester. Minimum Qualifications: Evidence of scholarly aptitude and earned Ph.D. in Philosophy or Religious Studies; completion of the Ph.D. required by August 30, 2015.
To view full job ad and to apply, go to http://agency.governmentjobs.com/wcupa/default.cfm.
An essay by Robert D. Kaplan in the Wall Street Journal.
The Third Annual Society for the Study of Early China Conference
Time: Thursday, 26 March 2015, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers
For more information, see here.
