Dear Friends of the ISCP
On behalf of the ISCP Executive Board (Ann Pang-White, Weimin Sun, Jinli He and myself), I would like to wish you all a happy and productive 2019. It has been two years since we took office and here is the highlight of the ISCP events:
Date: March 8-9, 2019.
Location: Confucius Institute U.S. Center, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C.
Please see here for the detailed conference schedule.
Bin Song (Washington College) has recently published reviews of two books:
Paul Tillich and Asian Religions. Edited by Keith CHAN Ka-fu and William NG Yau-nang (Boston: De Gruyter, 2017). “Asian Religions” here mainly refer to Buddhism and Confucianism. The review is published by the Journal of Interreligious Studies, and can be accessed through here.
Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order. Edited by Roger T. Ames, Peter D. Hershock (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2017). The review is published by “Reading Religion” in the American Academy of Religion, which you can find here.
SUMMARY
Heaven is Empty offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires. Heaven Is Empty offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China’s early empires (221 BCE–9 CE) and shows how the unification of the Central States was possible without a unitary and universalistic conception of religion.
We invite proposals for papers to be given at an interdisciplinary conference on the theme ‘Curing through Questioning: Philosophy as Therapy Across Ancient Traditions and Modern Applications’, to take place at Worcester College, University of Oxford, on 1st – 2nd June 2019. The invited speakers are Jessica Frazier (University of Oxford), Livia Kohn (Boston University), Karyn Lai (University of New South Wales), Graham Parkes (University of Vienna), Graham Priest (City University of New York) and Katja Vogt (Columbia University).
Looking back to the ancient world, a common thread connecting a wide range of traditions across the globe is an inherent link between theoretical questioning and the development of therapeutic practices. We welcome abstracts which address either of the following themes:
This monograph book explains a distinctive pluralist account of truth (jointly-rooted perspectivism) in the context of cross-tradition philosophical engagement for two closely related purposes:
More information here.
From the constructive-engagement vantage point of doing philosophy of language comparatively, this anthology volume explores:
More information here.
Please see here for information on a job opening in African/Africana philosophy and/or East Asian philosophy, and in comparative philosophy, at the University of Leiden.
Sinological Development Charitable Foundation (SDCF) announces that applications are now open for the 4th Greater China Summer Workshop Program in Chinese Studies, a summer course targeted at scholars (including PhD students) who would like to deepen their knowledge of Chinese philosophy and other aspects of Chinese culture.
Are you worried about the de facto ghettoization of non-Western philosophy at APA meetings, where there are quite a few non-Western philosophy panels but mostly in the Group Program rather than in the Main Program?
It turns out that the mechanism that allows for this situation also allows for its rectification. Below is a message from Rebecca Copenhaver, secretary-treasurer of the Pacific Division. I’m told that the Eastern Division has a similar mechanism (not sure about the Central).
I am posting the message below on behalf of Yang Jinquan, of the new Confucius Museum. If you have access to or know anyone who has access to an artifact that might find a home in the museum, feel free to contact Mr. Yang.
Contact info:
Yang Jinquan 杨金泉
Email：1429174490@qq.com
Postal address：中国山东省曲阜市孔子大道100号孔子博物馆
Telephone：186-6070-0298, 139-6498-0166
