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18Searle’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement (edited book)Brill. 2008.This anthology investigates how Searle’s philosophy and Chinese philosophy can jointly contribute to the common philosophical enterprise and shows how such comparative methodology of constructive engagement is important in philosophical inquiry. Searle contributes his keynote essay and his engaging replies to the other contributions
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35How the Validity of the Parallel Inference is Possible: From the Ancient Mohist Diagnose to a Modern Logical Treatment of Its Semantic-Syntactic StructureHistory and Philosophy of Logic 37 (4): 301-324. 2016.The purpose of this paper is to explore the issue of how the validity of the parallel inference is possible in view of its deep semantic-syntactic structure. I fi...
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43Vol 1 no 1_contents pageComparative Philosophy 1 (1). 2010.This page provides the table of contents of the current issue
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9Two Roads to Wisdom?: Chinese and Analytic Philosophical TraditionsOpen Court Publishing. 2001.How are Chinese philosophy and analytic philosophy-two very distinct traditions-alike? In this volume, fifteen distinguished scholars compare and contrast the methodologies, finding areas in which each tradition can learn from, contribute to, and complement the other.
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19A Metaphilosophical Analysis of the Core Idea of DeflationismMetaphilosophy 31 (3): 262-286. 2000.In this paper, I give a metaphilosophical analysis of the core idea of deflationism by discussing some basic conceptual and methodological issues involved in the debate between deflationism and substantivism. In so doing, I argue for three positive points. First, the crux of the dispute between deflationism and substantivism is whether or not truth is substantive in its metaphysical nature and in its explanatory role in philosophical enterprises, rather than whether or not a minimal approach reg…Read more
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20Thesis concerning “true”In Dirk Greimann & Geo Siegwart (eds.), Truth and Speech Acts: Studies in the Philosophy of Language, Routledge. pp. 5--178. 2007.
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30Whole set of volume 1 no 1 (2010) of comparative philosophyComparative Philosophy 1 (1). 2010.Whole Set of Contents of Current Issue (for cross-reference reading and hard-copy preservation of the whole issue)
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83On constructive-engagement strategy of comparative philosophy: A journal theme introduction [abstract]Comparative Philosophy 1 (1): 1-32. 2010.In this journal theme introduction, first, I explain how comparative philosophy as explored in the journal Comparative Philosophy is understood and how it is intrinsically related to the constructive engagement strategy. Second, to characterize more clearly and accurately some related methodological points of the constructive-engagement strategy, and also to explain how constructive engagement is possible, I introduce some needed conceptual and explanatory resources and a meta-methodological fra…Read more
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22Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy (review)Review of Metaphysics 57 (2): 392-395. 2003.This volume is the first encyclopedia of Chinese philosophy that has ever been published in the English speaking world; it is a valuable reference book not only for those students and scholars in the field of Chinese philosophy but also for all philosophers who are interested in broadening their philosophical perspectives and in how some resources in another significant philosophical tradition could jointly contribute to fundamental philosophical concerns and issues. My strategy in this review i…Read more
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20Chinese philosophy A-ZEdinburgh University Press. 2009.A concise alphabetic guide to the main concepts, figures, topics and important movements of thought that have shaped Chinese philosophy over the last three thousand years. The entries are concisely written, terms are cross-referenced and transcriptions are typically given in the pinyin system while the Chinese originals for important concepts are also provided. Chinese Philosophy A-Z stresses philosophical relevance in choosing entries while paying due attention to historical links between relev…Read more
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195A reexamination of the structure and content of confucius' version of the golden rulePhilosophy East and West 54 (2): 218-248. 2004.: For the purposes of interpretation and constructive engagement, the structure and content of Confucius' version of the Golden Rule (CGR) is examined by elaborating its three dimensions as suggested in the Analects. It is argued that the CGR, which consists of two intertwined central ideas in Confucius' ethics, shu and zhong, involves three interdependent and complementary dimensions: (1) the methodological (i.e., the methodological aspect of shu), which consists of the principles of reversibil…Read more
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10Three Orientation and Four 'Sins' in Comparative StudiesThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 7 141-147. 2002.In this paper, I give a metaphilosophical examination of three major orientations in comparative studies (i.e., historical one, interpretation-concerned one, and philosophical-issue-concerned one) and four 'sins' that are oft-cited in critically evaluating a comparative study, namely over-simplification, over-use of external resources, exaggerated distinction, and blurring assimilation. I argue that the appropriateness of these 'sins' depends on orientations, purposes and methodological approach…Read more
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28An analysis of the ideographic nature and structure of the hexagram in yijing: From the perspective of philosophy of languageJournal of Chinese Philosophy 25 (3): 305-320. 1998.
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42This book is an inquiry into the philosophical concern with truth as one joint subject in philosophy of language and metaphysics and presents a theory of truth, substantive perspectivism (SP). Emphasizing our basic pre-theoretic understanding of truth (i.e., what is captured by the axiomatic thesis of truth that the nature of truth consists in capturing the way things are), and in the deflationism vs. substantivism debate background, SP argues for the substantive nature of non-linguistic truth a…Read more
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50Vol 1 no 1_information pageComparative Philosophy 1 (1). 2010.This page provides some basic journal information (the constitution of the international editorial board of the journal, the identity of itsl publisher, its emphasis, coverage and orientation, etc.)
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51Constructive engagement of analytic and continental approaches in philosophy: From the vantage point of comparative philosophyComparative Philosophy 2 (2). 2011.From the vantage point of comparative philosophy, this anthology explores how analytic and "Continental" approaches in the Western and other philosophical traditions can constructively engage each other and jointly contribute to the contemporary development of philosophy
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107The structure of the chinese language and ontological insights: A collective-noun hypothesisPhilosophy East and West 49 (1): 45-62. 1999.Through a comparative case analysis regarding the Chinese language, it is discussed how the structure and functions of a natural language would bear upon the ways in which some philosophical problems are posed and some ontological insights shaped. Disagreeing with Chad Hansen's mass-noun hypothesis, a collective-noun hypothesis is argued for: (1) the denotational semantics and relevant grammatical features of Chinese nouns are like those of collective nouns; (2) their implicit ontology is a mere…Read more
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71The enumerative character of Tarski's definition of truth and its general character in a Tarskian systemSynthese 126 (1-2). 2001.In this paper, I suggest an approach to the alleged problem with the Tarskian formal definition of truth: its enumerative character seems to make it unable to capture our pretheoretic general understanding of truth. For this purpose, after spelling out two requirements for extending an enumerative definition to new cases, I examine to what extent Tarski's Convention T provides what are needed for extending the Tarski's enumerative definition. I conclude that, though not explicitly providing what…Read more
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