The 2025 Workshop of “Comparative Philosophy Forum – Beijing” will be held July 22, 2025, Beijing. This year’s workshop is on the theme of”Doing Chinese Philosophy Through Cross-Tradition Engagement: Making Original Contributions to the Development of Philosophy.” Please read this document to find more details on the workshop.
Category Archives: Comparative philosophy
New Book: Rošker, Chinese Philosophy in Transcultural Contexts
Chinese Philosophy in Transcultural Contexts: Comparative Approaches and the Method of Sublation has just been published by Bloomsbury. In this book, Jana S. Rošker presents a novel dialectical method to our comprehension of diverse philosophical ideas. Analyzing philosophical discourses that have emerged in China and the Sinophone region, Rošker applies the method to examples from across the history of thought. From Ancient Chinese logicians to 20th-century intellectuals, she connects thinkers and offers fresh insights into key aspects of philosophy. The result is a series of vibrant dialogues among different intellectual traditions, providing new understandings of transcultural philosophical interactions. To find the full text, please see this site.
四海为学 Collaborative Learning Project Book Discussion
Dear Colleagues,
On April 14th at 21:00 Beijing time the 四海为学 Collaborative Learning Project will host a book discussion of Professor David Shoemaker’s Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life.
For details and the Zoom link please see our event page: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/david-shoemaker-book-discussion
(Note that no pre-registration or passcode is required.)
New Book: Marchal and Wang, eds., Subjectivity and Selfhood in Chinese Philosophy
The inaugural volume of Amsterdam University Press’s “East Asian Philosophy and Political Thought” series has just been published: Subjectivity and Selfhood in Chinese Philosophy: Phenomenological, Comparative and Historical Perspectives, eds. Kai Marchal and Ellie Hua Wang. Please click the link here for more information.
The series is generally interested in any work in East Asian philosophy, but also aims to promote East Asian political thought and political philosophy. Those working on a book project, including an edited volume, that engages with East Asian thought and philosophy broadly defined are welcomed to submit to the series through this link.
Toc: Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture 43
Volume 43 (February 2025) of The Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture is published. This issue features the special topic, “Comparative Perspectives on the Future of Cosmopolitanism (II),” guest edited by Philip J. Ivanhoe. Continuing from Vol. 42, this collection, supported by the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown University, expands the discourse with six additional articles. A general response by Owen Flanagan offers reflections on the discussions presented across both volumes.
Additionally, this issue includes a special section, Scholar’s Corner, featuring an article on Confucian responses to same-sex marriage. It also presents a book review of Emotions in Korean Philosophy and Religion: Confucian, Comparative, and Contemporary Perspectives by Lu-Vada Dunford. The full volume is available at https://jcpc.skku.edu/.
Book discussion of Professor Jin Li’s The Self in the West and East Asia
On March 27th at 20:00 Beijing time the 四海为学 Collaborative Learning Project will host a book discussion of Professor Jin Li’s The Self in the West and East Asia: Being or Becoming.
For details and the Zoom link please see our event page: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/li-jin-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.
Hybrid Workshop on Interpersonal Harmony
A workshop, “Interpersonal Harmony in Comparative Philosophy,” is scheduled for April 10–11, 2025, and will be held in person at Duke University, with a virtual attendance option available.
The event will bring together scholars specializing in early Chinese and Greek thought to explore various aspects of interpersonal harmony, including its ethical, political, and metaphysical dimensions. The event will feature contributions from prominent scholars such as Agnes Callard, Chenyang Li, C.D.C. Reeve, and David Wong.
Full details and registration information are available on the following event website: Comparative Philosophy Workshop – April 2025.
Call for Applications – Social Ontology in Wuhan: A Summer School
The School of Philosophy at Wuhan University is pleased to invite applications for its 2025 Social Ontology Summer School. The Summer School will explore various topics in social ontology, including collective intentionality, metaphysics of social categories, Chinese social thought, and philosophical issues in the social sciences. It will take place June 5th through 8th, 2025. Planned speakers include Peter Finocchiaro (Wuhan University), Gina Lebkuecher (Wuhan University), Michael Longenecker (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law), Rachel Sterken (Hong Kong University), Shuchen Xiang 项舒晨 (Xidian University), and Hwa Yeong Wang (Duke Kunshan University).
The Summer School is funded by the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University and the International Social Ontology Society.
Applications are due by April 15th, and are open to undergraduate and graduate students within China. Travel and lodging expenses will be covered for accepted applicants. Please see the Wuhan University website post, linked here for more information about how to apply.
2025 CSCS-ATI Summer School-Buridan and the Buddha: Nominalism and Universals from East to West
Please see here for more information about “2025 CSCS-ATI Summer School, Buridan and the Buddha: Nominalism and Universals from East to West,” which will be held at at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China. The co-leaders are Prof. Vincent Eltschinger (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) and Dr. Boaz Schuman (KU Leuven).
ToC: Dao 24:1
Dao 24:1 has been published; see here and below for the Table of Contents.
