Justin Tiwald will give a colloquium talk titled “Confucian Disagreements about Autonomous Understanding 自得 (zìdé) in Ethics” at the University of California, Riverside hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages and the Department of Philosophy on Friday, Oct. 31 at 4pm PST (hybrid format). Please read more for details, the zoom link, and the abstract.
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Category Archives: Chinese philosophy – 中國哲學 – 中国哲学
Collaborative Learning 四海为学 event this week
Dear Colleagues,
On October 22nd at 21:00 Beijing time the 四海为学 Collaborative Learning Project will host a book discussion of Professor Wang Youru’s The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness: Engaging the Daoist Zhuangzi in Studies of Cultivated Forgetting
For details and the Zoom link please see our event page: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/wang-youru-book-discussion
(Note that no pre-registration or passcode is required.)
For a list of upcoming events see our calendar here. Please feel free to advertise this or share it with anyone. All our events are free and open to everyone.
Sincerely,
Paul J. D’Ambrosio
Brook Ziporyn’s talk on Tiantai Buddhism at Rutgers on Thursday, Oct. 23 (updated: hybrid format)
Brook Ziporyn (University of Chicago), will give a talk, “Everything Everywhere All at Once: The Buddha-Nature According to Tiantai and What To Do About It, If Anything,” at Rutgers New Brunswick campus on Thursday, October 23, 2025, 4-5:30pm. Here’s the link to the talk:
The talk is also available on Zoom. Check the website for the registration link. Please drop me a note if you are coming in person. Thanks.
Episode 26 of “This Is the Way”: The White Horse Dialogue—Language, Logic, and Categories in Early China
According to a speaker in a famous historical dialogue, “A white horse is not a horse.” In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Lisa Indraccolo (Tallinn University) to unpack one of the most intriguing discourses in early Chinese philosophy—the White Horse Dialogue from the Gongsun Longzi. Together, we explore what this paradoxical statement reveals about language, logic, and categorization in early China, from the connection between words and reality to the ways that set theory, semantics, and metaphysics might be used to help us understand this fascinating text. Continue reading →
Upcoming Collaborative Learning 四海为学 events
Dear Colleagues,
On October 14th at 21:00 Beijing time the 四海为学 Collaborative Learning Project will host a roundtable on “Commitments and Devotion.”
For details and the Zoom link please see our event page: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/devotion-roundtable
(Note that no pre-registration or passcode is required.)
On October 17th at 10:00am Beijing time the 四海为学 Collaborative Learning Project will host a book discussion of Elena Ziliotti’s Meritocratic Democracy.
For details and the Zoom link please see our event page: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/elena-ziliotti-book-discussion
(Note that no pre-registration or passcode is required.)
You can stay updated with our calendar here. Please feel free to advertise this or share it with anyone. All our events are free and open to everyone.
Sincerely,
Paul J. D’Ambrosio
Online Course: Worldmodels & Ontologies: Visions of Reality in Chinese Thought
The online course “Worldmodels & Ontologies: Visions of Reality in Chinese Thought” will be running from Thursday, 16 October to Thursday, 18 December 2025. This seminar is designed in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Zurich, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and National Chengchi University (NCCU). Scholars, students, and practitioners are warmly invited to join this collaborative exploration of how different textual traditions in China have structured their visions of reality. Please find the course description and schedule here.
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New Book: Valmisa, All Things Act
Mercedes Valmisa’s All Things Act has recently been published through Oxford University Press. Please read more to find the description of the book and see here to access the full book. Continue reading →
Hybrid Workshop: Friendship in Chinese Thought
The upcoming hybrid workshop “Friendship in Chinese Thought: Theories, Issues, and Perspectives” will be held at Lanzhou University and virtually on zoom. This workshop will bring together scholars and students to explore the rich and multifaceted ways friendship has been theorized, debated, and applied within the Chinese intellectual tradition. Please read here for the full schedule of the workshop and to access the zoom link. Continue reading →
One-Semester Position at Wesleyan
The College of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University invites applications for a Visiting Professor or Visiting Instructor in Pre-Modern Chinese Philosophy and Culture, to begin in January 2026. Term of appointment is one semester. The successful candidate will teach three courses, with no advising or service expectations. One course will be Classical Chinese Philosophy; the other two courses can be in philosophy or other humanistic disciplines so long as the focus is on pre-twentieth century China. Review of applications will begin on October 17th and will continue until the position has been filled
For more information and to apply, please see here.
Job Opening: HKUST Substantiation-track Position
The Division of Humanities of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) invites applications for a substantiation-track position in Philosophy, with an expected starting date of 2 July 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications at all ranks (Assistant Professor / Associate Professor / Professor) are invited, though applications at the level of Professor and Associate Professor with substantiation is especially welcomed. While the subject area is open, a research background in Confucianism – and/or expertise in ethics, bioethics, moral philosophy, religion, or other areas of contemporary relevance – would be an advantage; strong applicants in other areas are also welcome to apply. Please read this file for full description of the position and the application guidelines.
