The new website philevents looks like a promising way to keep abreast of conferences and talks around the philosophy world. “Asian philosophy” is one of its categories, so one can set it up to alert one to this particular category of events, should one so desire. Of course, the sponsors of such events will need to register them with philevents for this to have any effect, and so far it appears that no one has.
Journal of Chinese Philosophy 38:4 TOC
Special Theme – Kant and China: New Dimensions
December 2011
Volume 38, Issue 4
Pages 503–675
The ten times ten-thousand visitors
Some time in the next few weeks, the blog counter will register our 100,000th page view since the blog’s inception two years ago. It’s an arbitrary milestone, and of course the Zhuangzi tells us that the extra digit will be excessive with respect to virtue. Still, even arbitrary milestones and extra digits can be imbued with significance. The success of our blog depends on the quality of participation from its contributors and readers, and though the sheer number of hits may indicate more about the breadth and scope of our audience, the many substantive posts and discussions over the past two years have at least enriched my own life. I hope that the same is true for many of you.
Fellow contributor Dan Robins and I would like to mark the occasion with a celebration — an actual physical one — that will take place in New York City, in a location to be determined, and all blog friends are invited. The date for the celebration is Saturday, December 3. The plan is to begin some time in the late afternoon. Since we ride the air and drink the dew as far as financial support for the blog goes, the party will have to be pay-your-own-way.
Our choice of venue, most likely a room at a restaurant and/or bar in Manhattan or Brooklyn, will depend on how many people we expect. So if you think you might come, please email either Dan or me by next Tuesday, November 15, so we can begin to solidify plans. Our email addresses are in our contributor profiles. Eventually, the Warp Weft Way Facebook entity will create an event, so it would also be good if you friend us there.
For those who would travel far enough to want to make a weekend of it, there are also two Columbia University Seminars the previous day. Ari Borrell of the MLA will be giving a talk on “The Daoxue Style and Song Political Culture” at 3:30pm, and Dan Robins will be talking about “Xunzi and the Constancies of Nature” at 5:30pm.
We hope to hear from some of you soon!
[Watch for comments and pictures that will upload during and after the event on the blog and the Facebook page.]
Cambridge Job
While we are on the topic of jobs, here is another, at Cambridge University, that might fit some of our readers… Continue reading →
Current job openings related to Chinese philosophy
I recently took a look through the current issue of Jobs for Philosophers (which is available to APA members at the APA’s new-and-harder-to-navigate website). Listed here are the ads for positions listing Asian, Non-Western, or Chinese philosophy, as well as one position that was not listed in this JFP. If there are other jobs you know of, please let us all know. Other comments also welcome. (Update, 11/11: note the additional jobs listed in the comments, which are currely listed as “web-only.”) Continue reading →
Bongrae Seok lecture at Columbia this Friday
THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY welcomes BONGRAE SEOK (Alvernia University), with formal responses by HAGOP SARKISSIAN (Baruch College, CUNY). Please join us in RM 101 IN THE DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION at Columbia University on November 11th at 5:30 for his lecture entitled, “Embodied Moral Psychology of Confucian Heart.” Continue reading →
Teaching Chinese Thought: Observations on Pedagogy
Regular blog reader Joel Dietz offers his thoughts, in this guest post, on teaching Chinese thought—mainly as viewed from the “consumer” or student end of the interaction. In the comments, please respond to Joel.
Despite the recent interest in China from an economic perspective, relatively few colleges offer courses which attempt to offer an “Introduction to Chinese Thought” or, perhaps more ambitiously, an “Introduction to Chinese Philosophy.” Indeed, in a recent course providing an introduction to Chinese classical thought at the University of Pennsylvania, it was unclear what if any, Ivy League institutions, besides the University of Pennsylvania and Brown University offer such a course (presumably others do, and it would be delightful to know the details). As an undergraduate at Brown studying with Henry Rosemont and Harold Roth, graduate student at Penn, and reviewer of other related syllabi, especially those for a comparative philosophy class offered by Chris Fraser at Hong Kong University, I make some preliminary pedagogical observations extrapolated from my experience, including related benefits and challenges. Continue reading →
New book on "Political Confucianism"
Springer has just published The Renaissance of Confucianism in Contemporary China, edited by Ruiping FAN. The book’s essays revolve around the idea of “Political Confucianism,” as that idea has been articulated by Jiang Qing. The Table of Contents includes: Continue reading →
ACPA Nominations Open
JeeLoo Liu, current president of the Association of Chinese Philoosphers in America, writes: Continue reading →
Robins to HKU
Dan Robins, a frequent contributor to this blog, has accepted a job offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. Congratulations, Dan! Dan joins several other colleagues at HKU working in Chinese philosophy: Chad Hansen, who has returned to teach common core curriculum courses on behalf of the Department of Philosophy; Tang Siufu, in the School of Chinese; Joseph Chan, in the Department of Politics and Public Administration; and myself, in the Department of Philosophy.
