Hayes Reviews Garfield, Buddhist Ethics

Jay L. Garfield, Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration, Oxford University Press, 2022, 231pp., $24.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780190907648.

Reviewed by Richard P. Hayes, The University of New Mexico

This book is a contribution to the series “Buddhist Philosophy for Philosophers,” which so far also has a monograph on Buddhist epistemology and one on Buddhist metaphysics. As with the other books in the series, Jay Garfield’s book is written primarily for philosophers who are open to exploring Buddhist approaches to ethics rather than for philologists or historians of Buddhist thought, although scholars in Buddhist studies also stand to benefit from reflecting on Garfield’s presentation. As the author makes clear from the outset, Buddhists have not until recently written much that could be considered metaethical in nature. Ethicists accustomed to…

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CFP: Commentaries on Yong Huang on Zhu Xi

The Australasian Philosophical Review is seeking proposals for open peer commentaries on Yong Huang “Zhu Xi’s Virtue Ethics Approach to Meta-Ethics”. Proposal abstracts should be brief (200-500 words) and state the aspects of the lead article that will be discussed, in addition the approach that will be taken. Abstracts submissions are due on September 2nd, 2022 and invitations to write commentaries of 2000-3000 words will be issued on September 12th, 2022. Check the website here for more information.

Angle on Confucian Leadership & Confucian Democracy

My article “Confucian Leadership Meets Confucian Democracy” has just been published in the Journal of Social and Political Philosophy (1:2). The abstract is below; full text is available here (through the end of October).

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CFP: ISCP at APA-Central

The ISCP is happy to announce that they are accepting submissions for the ISCP Group Panel at the 2023 Central Division Meeting in Denver, Colorado (2023 February 22-25). They are welcoming any submission relevant to Chinese Philosophy and especially encourage junior scholars, international scholars, and individuals from under-represented groups to apply. Read below for information about submissions.

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International Conference: Philosophies of Co-Becoming and the Sino-Island

“Philosophies of Co-Becoming and the Sino-Island” is an international conference that will take place on July 8-9, 2022. The conference is co-sponsored by the Global Sinology Forum at National Sun Yat-Sen University, the National Library (ROC)’s Center for Chinese Studies, and the East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts at The University of Tokyo. It will bring scholars together from half a dozen countries to discuss the notion of a philosophy of co-becoming (共生哲學) in our contemporary world. Many of the conference organizers work and teach on the island of Taiwan, which we call the Sino-island, to denote the island’s long history as a center of immigration for Sinitic speaking peoples, as well as its rich Sinological institutions and scholarly traditions. In a contemporary world riven by nationalist rivalry, economic inequality, the ravages of climate change, and a global pandemic whose effects are disproportionally borne across diverse populations up to the present day, the notion of how to co-exist–with the natural world, with our own bodies, and with each other–has never been a more urgent one for contemporary thought. Each panel of the conference will be live-streamed through WebEx online software. Any inquires regarding the conference please email here.

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