New Books on Coherence, Music, and Freud

Three significant new books have just been published:

Congratulations to all!

ISCP at AAR Conference in Chicago (11/17/2012)

The International Society for Chinese Philosophy has an Ethics and Chinese Thought panel session at the American Academy of Religion meetings in Chicago. From Eric Nelson (U. Mass. Lowell):

The International Society for Chinese Philosophy panel at the American Academy of Religion is scheduled for November 17th, Saturday from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM in the South Building, Room S106b at the McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago, IL
M17-202
International Society for Chinese Philosophy
Theme: Ethics and Chinese Thought
Saturday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
MPS-106B
Chair: Michael Paradiso-Michau (North Central College)

  1. Jinli He (Trinity University), Qing Ethics: An Alternative Thinking?
  2. Rafal Banka (Jagiellonian University), Philosophy of Action in Confucian Ethics
  3. Leah Kalmanson (Drake University), Now I Get It!: Thinking Slowly about Sudden Enlightenment for Ethics Today
  4. Eric S. Nelson (University of Massachusetts, Lowell), Killing the Buddha: Chan Buddhism and Antinomian Ethics

Slick, New “Jobs for Philosophers”

For APA members, the newly redesigned, web-only Jobs for Philosophers is now available. It currently lists three positions for this year in Asian philosophy: a visiting position (albeit of the three-year, potentially renewable, potentially converting into tenure-track variety) at Union College (New York); an assistant professor position at Richard Stockton College (New Jersey); and an assistant professor position at Yonsei University’s international campus (Korea).

Slick, New "Jobs for Philosophers"

For APA members, the newly redesigned, web-only Jobs for Philosophers is now available. It currently lists three positions for this year in Asian philosophy: a visiting position (albeit of the three-year, potentially renewable, potentially converting into tenure-track variety) at Union College (New York); an assistant professor position at Richard Stockton College (New Jersey); and an assistant professor position at Yonsei University’s international campus (Korea).

François Jullien and the Hazards of "Chinese" Reality

This week, the famous French sinologist François Jullien is in Taibei for a series of academic events (among others, he participates in a conference at National Central University, see http://ncu33013.blogspot.tw/2012/09/blog-post.html). It is no exaggeration to call Jullien the most famous sinologist in the West. His books have been enthusiastically received by the public, and he is probably the only living scholar writing on pre-modern Chinese thought who has made a visible impact on the field of philosophy – at least in France where philosophers like Alain Badiou and Jean-François Lyotard have endorsed his very particular view of what philosophy should be. But also, to some extent, in Germany where, in 2010, he has received the prestigious Hannah-Arendt price for political thinking.

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