Bo Mou is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University in California, USA. After receiving his B.S. degree in mathematics, Mou obtained his graduate degrees in philosophy at Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (M.A.) and University of Rochester in New York, USA (M. A. and Ph.D., supervised by Richard Feldman (expertizing in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language), Theodore Sider (expertizing in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and logic), Rolf Eberle (expertizing in logic, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of language) with AOS in “philosophy of language” and “metaphysics”). Mou is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Comparative Philosophy (www.comparativephilosophy.org), President (2021-2024) of International Society for Comparative Philosophy toward World Philosophy (CPWP) (cpwponline.org), and President (2002-2005) of International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP) (iscwponline.org), a member of the Editorial Board of the international journal History and Philosophy of Logic. Mou has published both in analytic philosophy and in Chinese philosophy and cross-tradition engagement in philosophy (comparative philosophy as a general way of doing philosophy through cross-tradition engagement toward world philosophy), concerning a range of issues in the philosophy of language and logic, metaphysics, philosophical methodology, and ethics (in such journals as Synthese, Metaphilosophy, History and Philosophy of Logic, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Open Philosophy, Philosophy East & West, Asian Philosophy, and Journal of Chinese Philosophy). He is the author of several peer-reviewed books, including the monograph book Cross-Tradition Engagement on the Laws of Logic: Approaching Identity and Reference from Classical Chinese Philosophy to Modern Logic (“Routledge Studies of Contemporary Philosophy” series, 2024), the monograph book Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy: A Constructive-Engagement Account (“Routledge Studies of Contemporary Philosophy” series, 2020 / 2022 paperback), the monograph book Semantic-Truth Approaches in Chinese Philosophy: A Unifying Pluralist Account (2018), the monograph book Substantive Perspectivism (“Synthese Library” monograph series, Vol. 344, 2009), and the reference book Chinese Philosophy A-Z (2009/2010). Mou is contributing editor of a number of published scholarly anthologies including Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement (2018), Constructive Engagement of Analytic and Continental Approaches in Philosophy: From the Vantage Point of Comparative Philosophy (co-edited with Richard Tieszen, 2013), History of Chinese Philosophy (2009), Davidson’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement (2006), Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy (2003), and Two Roads to Wisdom?—Chinese and Analytic Philosophical Traditions (2001). He is the invited editor of the 4-volume set of reference book Chinese Philosophy: Critical Concepts in Philosophy (“Routledge Critical Concepts in Philosophy” reference book series, 2019).
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Website: www.sjsu.edu/faculty/bmou
