I am pleased to share that the following two articles have recently been published:
Stephen C. Angle (2026). “A Halfhearted Defense of the Perceptual Model of Wang Yangming’s ‘Genuine Knowing’.” Ergo: an Open Access Journal of Philosophy 13: 43. https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.11001
Stephen C. Angle and Chi-keung Chan (2026). “Affective Knowing in Wang Yangming.” European Journal of Philosophy. Early View. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.70122
Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) invites applications for one (1) open-rank core faculty position in Philosophy.
The successful candidate will hold a Ph.D. in philosophy, or a closely related field, and will have a research focus in one or more of the following areas: non-Western philosophy (especially Islamic and Arabic philosophy, African/Africana philosophy, Asian philosophy), Continental philosophy, philosophy of science (broadly construed), philosophy of social science, or applied ethics. They will contribute to the foundational and upper-level offerings of the Culture and Politics (CULP) major and to the BSFS core curriculum and must be able to teach a course in Political and Social Thought.
Xunzi is famous for the claim that “human nature is bad.” But what does he mean by this, and if goodness does not come naturally to us, where does it come from?
In this episode, we discuss Xunzi’s distinction between nature (xing 性) and deliberate effort (wei 偽), his disagreement with Mencius, and his view that moral goodness must be “learned” and “worked at.” We also ask how sharp the distinction between the natural and the artificial really is, and consider Xunzi’s comparison of moral cultivation to crafts like pottery and woodworking. If we are shaped through deliberate effort, are we both the material being shaped and the ones doing the shaping? Continue reading →
George Thompson is a popularizer of philosophical Daoism. In this conversation, we discuss the concept of ziran, the science of wisdom, and the intersection of philosophy and religion.
The latest issue of Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy has been published. See here and below.
Doil Kim, The Art of Seeing Beyond Oneself: A Confucian Perspective on Humility, Oxford University Press, 2025, 184pp., $99.00 (hbk) ISBN 9780197834213.
Reviewed by David B. Wong, Duke University
Doil Kim identifies Confucian humility as a form of “self-lowering”. Other forms under this capacious heading have been criticized as prescribing self-effacement or self-sacrifice. Failure to distinguish Confucian humility from such other forms has resulted in confusion and unclarity as to what humility is, and most importantly, has obscured how Confucian humility can play a constructive role in shaping personhood in the sense of a “good and ethically formed human being” (1). Kim’s aim is to make the case for Confucian humility, based on a textual analysis of early Confucian and medieval Neo-Confucian texts, followed by a discussion of how…
New post in the series “Family as Topic, Root and Model in the West: An Ephemeral Resource for Comparative Philosophy.” Continue reading →
How China Shaped the Enlightenment: A Transcultural History of Modern Thought, Edited By Shuchen Xiang, Martin Powers, has been published by Routledge. See here and below.
It has been brought to my attention that the Journal of Daoist Studies seems to have been hijacked. The journal published legitimate Daoism research up to and including the beginning of this year, but since then it has published hundreds of articles unrelated to Daoism. The journal homepage still claims that it is published out of University of Hawaii Press and links to the volumes that contain legitimate articles. But visiting the archive reveals the irrelevant articles:
https://journalofdaoiststudies.org/index.php/journal/issue/archive
If anyone has insight into this situation, please share!
Please see this document for information about the ISCP 2027 Charles Fu Foundation Essay Contest.
