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Barcelona Principles for a Globally Inclusive Philosophy

The Barcelona Principles for a Globally Inclusive Philosophy manifesto was published in 2021, aiming to address the structural inequality between native and non-native speakers in academic philosophy. A number of journals and societies, as well as many individuals, have signed the manifesto. I have only recently become aware of it, but suggest that members of our community should think seriously about committing to these principles as well. The site linked above contains a FAQ that briefly discusses some of the issues that the Principles raise.

CFP: Chinese Philosophy and Psychological Wellbeing

Journal of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, Special Issue Call for Papers: Chinese Philosophy and Psychological Wellbeing

This is a Diamond Open Access journal. Articles are published in Open Access at no cost to the author. Sponsored by Beijing Normal University, and launched by the International Center for Philosophy from Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, the editorial team includes philosophers from across China and from all around the world.

Deadline for Submissions: 31 May 2026
Guest Editor: Yuchen Liang liangyc@cuhk.edu.cn
Submit at: Editorial Manager  for JCCP https://brill.com/view/journals/jccp/jccp-overview.xml
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Book available: Qiu and Bunin eds., Collected Papers of Four Conferences on Democracy, Rule of Law, Human Rights, Good Governance

Nicholas Bunin has shared with me that a new book has just been published: Qiu Renzong and Nicholas Bunnin, eds, Collected Papers of Four Conferences on Democracy, Rule of Law, Human Rights, Good Governance 《政治哲学各论》 (Beijing, privately published, 2025). The PDF of this book is available free of charge for any students, colleagues and institutions that might benefit from using the text for research, teaching, study, review, printing paper copies or library acquisition. Please contact Professor Bunin with any questions.

 

 

 

Philosophizing in a Globalized World (GloPhi) at Hildesheim University

Warp, Weft, and Way readers will be interested in the work being done at “Philosophizing in a Globalized World (GloPhi),” a Center for Advanced Studies at Hildesheim University funded by the German Research Foundation. Their avowed aim is to pluralize the canon of philosophy by combining methodologies from cross-cultural philosophy and decolonial theory. See here for more information.

Job Opening: Political or intercultural philosophy, Loyola Univ., Spain

Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University, Spain
Fixed‑term appointment with possibility of transitioning to a permanent position

The Department of Humanities and Philosophy at Loyola University Andalucía is seeking applications for an open-rank position to begin in September 2026. The initial contract period is 18 months with the possibility of extension. The position is funded through the research project “Liberalism in Contemporary Chinese Philosophy” by the Volkswagen Stiftung.

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Jin Reviews Li, Confucian Comparative Political Philosophy

Yong Li, Confucian Comparative Political Philosophy, Routledge, 128pp., $200.00 (hbk) ISBN 9781032671871.

Reviewed by Yutang Jin, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong

In philosophical works, it is difficult to combine bold innovation with intellectual humility. The reason is straightforward—to show creativity, an author is tempted to grandstand about their originality. I consider Yong Li’s Confucian Comparative Political Philosophy one of the rare cases where the author successfully combines each of these two virtues without sacrificing the other. This book is a recent intervention in contemporary Confucian political theory, an increasingly important field that connects the Confucian intellectual tradition and cultural practices to normative questions in political theory. Written with exceptional analytical rigor and high accessibility, this book can serve as an ideal reference…

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Call for Abstracts of Papers: Timothy Williamson Encountering Chinese Philosophy

School of Philosophy, Fudan University, will host a conference on “Timothy Williamson Encountering Chinese Philosophy” on November 6-7, 2026. This is the 4th event in the conference/book series of “Fudan Studies of Encountering Chinese Philosophy”, following the ones focused on Michael Slote, Ernest Sosa, and Simon Blackburn respectively. This one is focused on the work of Timothy Williamson. Following the previous practice in the series, there will be a dozen or so scholars of Chinese philosophy critically engaging various aspects of Williamson’s philosophy by drawing on various aspects of Chinese philosophy, to which Williamson makes responses. Revised versions of these critical comments and responses will be collected into an edited volume, with the same title of the conference, in the series mentioned above.

This call for paper is addressed to scholars of Chinese philosophy who are interested in Williamson’s work. As the first step, we call for expressions of interests and abstracts of papers. The deadline is March 15, and we will announce the result by the end of March. We will provide airfare and room and board in the duration of the conference for all participants at the conference.

Please send your expressions of interests/abstracts of papers to: yonghuang@fudan.edu.cn

Liu, The Rise of Analytic Chinese Philosophy

A guest post by JeeLoo Liu

The Rise of Analytic Chinese Philosophy

JeeLoo Liu

The existence of Chinese philosophy has long been dismissed from both sides of the world. In the West, Hegel famously denied the presence of Chinese philosophy, focusing on the essential speculative nature of “philosophy” itself. Of Confucius, he wrote that Confucius was “only a man who has a certain amount of practical and worldly wisdom—one with whom there is no speculative philosophy.” Of the Daodejing, Hegel wrote: “If Philosophy has got no further than to such expression, it still stands on its most elementary stage. What is there to be found in all this learning?” (Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy, vol. 1). When Derrida visited China in 2001, he proclaimed that China “does not have any philosophy, only thought” on the grounds that “philosophy” is “something of European form.” This has since become a popular, if not the received, view in the Western philosophical world.

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