Worcester College, Oxford is happy to announce a call for registration for the coming conference, “Questioning ‘Western Philosophy’: Philosophical, Historical, and Historiographical Challenges”. The event will happen both in-person and online from 28th April to 30th April 2023. The event will be the first international conference that subjects this concept to critical interrogation, asking whether it is legitimate, where it comes from, when and how it becomes widespread, and how it impacts our understanding of philosophy and its history. Building on work from, inter alia, the history of philosophy, global intellectual history, intercultural and comparative philosophy, critical philosophy of ‘race’, and decolonial studies, the conference will explore the concept of ‘Western Philosophy’ from philosophical, historical, and historiographical perspectives. Please read below for more information and how to register.
New(ish) Journal: Philosophy and Global Affairs
Readings of Warp, Weft, and Way will want to pay attention to the open-access journal Philosophy and Global Affairs, now in its second year. It has already published a number of intriguing essays and book reviews that engage with comparative philosophy (broadly construed); according to the editors, it:
…is a scholarly journal that publishes research and commentary on contemporary theoretical problems of global significance. It will include peer-reviewed articles, critical essays, and reviews for academic and non-academic readers in any country who share a sense of common global citizenship. The editorial team is particularly interested in the work of philosophers and theorists attuned to perspectives from the Global South. The journal’s goal is to establish a respected forum for theoretical discussion that is accessible to audiences across the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences.
Enjoy!
CFP: Being, Thinking, and Meaningfulness of Life
The Department of Philosophy at Fu Jen Catholic University is organizing a three-day international conference in memory of Professor Vincent Shen which will take place June 7th-9th 2024 at New Taipei City in Taiwan. They are inviting scholars, researchers, and members of academia to present their latest findings related to the theme of this conference. If you are interested in submitting a paper please click here for instructions in English and here for instructions in Chinese.
Please submit a proposal of your presentation, including an abstract (300 words in English, 500 in Chinese), with a title of your paper and 5 key terms, digitally by March 31th 2023. Please include your basic information when submitting your proposal via Email to Mrs. Zoe Saelim.
Online Workshop: Tiwald on “The Confucian Debate on Virtue Politics”
The Sun Yat-sen University is pleased to announce the 34th Comparative Philosophy Workshop which will be held virtually at 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm (Bejing time), on March 16th, 2023. The workshop will be held using Tencent Voov Meeting, and any video recording of the meeting is prohibited. Please click here to sign up for the workshop.
Topic: “The Confucian Debate on Virtue Politics”
Speaker: Justin TIWALD (Professor of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Jun-Hyeok KWAK (Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University)
Confucian Web 《儒家网》 Top 10 Books of 2022
The website Confucian Web 《儒家网》 has published a list of their top 10 books from 2022, together with brief descriptions. Enjoy!
ToC: Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 2:1
Edinburgh University Press is happy to announce that they have recently published a new issue of the Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 2:1. This issue was published in February of 2023 with 10 different publications including book reviews, a review essay, and articles. Please click here for the attached postcard which contains a free access code for the journal. Read below for a table of contents.
CEACOP Seminar
The CEACOP is happy to announce that they will have a new seminar this Friday, March 3rd at 2pm (HKT). The speaker is Ahyoung Lee (Ph.D. Candidate, City University of Hong Kong) and her talk is “On Han Fei’s Enlightened Ruler”. The seminar will take place via Zoom, please click here for the poster for the event. Read below for the Zoom information.
March 17, 2023–Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy–Wenqing Zhao (Whitman College): « From Conceptual Misalignment to Conceptual Engineering: A Case Study on Emotion from Chinese Philosophy »
THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
Welcomes you to an IN-PERSON meeting:
Wenqing Zhao (Whitman College): « From Conceptual Misalignment to Conceptual Engineering: A Case Study on Emotion from Chinese Philosophy »
With responses from Andrew Lambert (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
ABSTRACT: Conceptual misalignment is a pervasive phenomenon in the studies of Non-Western philosophy and the History of Philosophy (NW&HP). However, conceptual misalignment is often undetected, unsuspected, or seen as a hurdle that NW&HP materials need to overcome to contribute to contemporary discussions. Specifically, conceptual misalignment refers to the following: In the process of crystalizing NW&HP materials, a linguistic coordination of concepts is formed between the speaker, i.e., NW&HP, and its context of contemporary anglophone philosophy. However, in philosophically meaningful ways, the original NW&HP concept and its anglophone counterpart misalign. This misalignment is particularly intricate and hard to detect when it comes to emotion concepts, as they are thought to involve phenomenal and/or intentional features. Through investigating the concept of emotion in Chinese philosophy, I propose a refocusing on conceptual misalignment as a method of cross-cultural comparative and history of philosophy. Moreover, I argue that conceptual misalignment is an important resource for contemporary conceptual engineering and amelioration projects.
DATE: March 17th, 2023
TIME: 5:30 – 7:30 pm EST
LOCATION: Philosophy Hall, Columbia University, 1150 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027 Continue reading →
CLT2 on Deng Xiaomang Freely Available
The second double-issue of Chinese Literature and Thought Today (CLT2) has been published and the press is running a free access period of this issue till March 31, 2023. All contents of the issue can be viewed and downloaded on the Taylor & Francis website during this period:
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mcsp21/current?fbclid=IwAR2B6C7F6mIAHO89EKD0AtLDXZIGxUBHx0nEJuQDnWvorMZCeal9xMC3iFU
Chinese Literature and Thought Today (or CLT2) is a merger of Chinese Literature Today and Contemporary Chinese Thought. In this double issue, there is a section devoted to the thought and cultural criticism of Deng Xiaomang that is translated, and introduced by Jens Karlsson. Check it out!
New Podcast on Growing Moral: A Confucian Guide to Life
David Sherrin is a high school social studies teacher who hosts a terrific series of conversations called
“Conversations on World History” aimed at a broad listenership. He and I recently chatted about themes from my book Growing Moral: A Confucian Guide to Life; if you’re interested, check it out at any of these sites:
