Exemplary Women of Early China: The Lienü zhuan of Liu Xiang
Translated and edited by Anne Behnke Kinney
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16308-8/exemplary-women-of-early-china
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Reviewer Wanted for Trying Not To Try
Would you like to write a review on the blog of Ted Slingerland’s forthcoming book, Trying Not To Try? If so, please contact me via email. The publisher would be happy to send a free copy of the book to a reviewer for this blog.
NDPR Review and New Confucianism
A recent book review on NDPR raises issues in the philosophy of Kant that made me think of Mou Zongsan’s New Confucianism, and more particularly, of current Taiwanese philosopher Lee Ming-huei’s efforts to further develop and defend Mou’s views. This is the review:
Jeanine Grenberg, Kant’s Defense of Common Moral Experience: A Phenomenological Account, Cambridge University Press, 2013, 300pp., $99.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781107033580. Reviewed by Patrick Frierson, Whitman College
As you’ll see from the review, Grenberg posits a very strong role for “moral feeling” (about which the reviewer is quite skeptical!). Whether or not this is good Kant, it does sound something like Lee’s reading of Confucianism. For what that is worth!
CFP: Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy 49th Annual Conference
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
49th Annual Conference
June 19-22, 2014
SUNY Binghamton, New York
CONFERENCE THEME: UNIVERSALITY AND PARTICULARITY
Keynote Speaker: Chenyang Li, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
Title of Keynote Presentation: “Comparative Philosophy and Cultural Patterns.”
Deadline for Abstracts and Proposals: March 1, 2014
Co-sponsored by the Philosophy Department at SUNY-Binghamton (http://www2.binghamton.edu/philosophy/), the 49th Annual Conference of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (http://www.sacpweb.org/) will be held at SUNY-Binghamton’s campus in the beautiful environs of upstate New York.
CFP: 10th Annual Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought (EXTENDED to Jan. 31)
CALL FOR PAPERS
10TH ANNUAL MIDWEST CONFERENCE ON CHINESE THOUGHT
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
April 25-27, 2014
Keynote Address to be given by
Professor Kai-Wing Chow, Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Ethics and Society: The Revival of Confucianism in Contemporary China”
New Group Blog of Indian Philosophy Launched
Friend of the blog, Amod Lele, and a group of Indian Philosophy scholars have launched The Indian Philosophy Blog. We welcome it to the comparative philosophy blogosphere!
The list of contributors includes: Douglas Berger, Jason Birch, Daniele Cuneo, Matthew Dasti, Aleix Ruiz Falqués, Elisa Freschi, Elon Goldstein, Stephen Harris, Amod Lele, Ethan Mills, Andrew Ollett, Shyam Ranganathan, Agnieszka Rostalska, Justin Whitaker, and Mike Williams.
New Article on Feng Youlan and New Realism
The new issue of Modern China has an article by Xiaoqing Diana Lin entitled “Creating Modern Chinese Metaphysics: Feng Youlan and New Realism.” The abstract is available at this link.
Osnos on Confucianism in The New Yorker
Journalist Evan Osnos has a new article, “Confucius Comes Home,” in The New Yorker. Only subscribers will have access to more than the first few paragraphs, I fear. It’s a terrific and provocative piece!
New Content Editor at Warp, Weft, and Way
We are happy to announce that Tim Connolly is going to serve as our first Content Acquisition Editor, with a focus on comparative methods, including the comparison of ways that we all have approached Chinese-Western comparative philosophy, with comparative approaches in other areas. Please see the Contributor page for Tim’s bio. We look forward to working with him!
Diversity at APA
For those who attended the APA Eastern meeting this year, the APA just sent out an online survey, part of which has to do with diversity issues. I’d like to suggest that those who are concerned about the lack of non-Western philosophy in the main program include mention of this at the end of the survey. They seem to view diversity mainly with regard to people, but I think it should be extended to include fields.
Just a thought.
