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4IntroductionIn Chung-Ying Cheng & Nicholas Bunnin (eds.), Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2002.
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2IntroductionIn Chung‐Ying Cheng, Nicholas Bunnin, Dachun Yang & Linyu Gu (eds.), Lévinas, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009-02-26.This chapter contains sections titled: Endnotes.
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37A Moral Metaphysics and a Metaphysics of Morals: Xunzi and KantJournal of Chinese Philosophy 49 (2): 174-180. 2022.I explore two important ways of thinking that the philosophical understanding of morality requires metaphysics: the moral metaphysics I ascribe to Xunzi and Kant’s metaphysics of morals. Both Xunzi and Kant held that a metaphysics of nature is inadequate for a metaphysical understanding of human moral agency. Xunzi invoked the human Dao to allow for the agency of the heart-mind, and Kant invoked the Categorical Imperative to allow for the agency of the moral self. Both Xunzi and Kant stretched m…Read more
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11God’s Knowledge and Ours: Kant and Mou Zongsan on Intellectual IntuitionJournal of Chinese Philosophy 40 (5): 47-58. 2013.This article examines Mou Zongsan’s claim that “if it is true that human beings cannot have intellectual intuition, then the whole of Chinese philosophy must collapse completely, and the thousands years of effort must be in vain. It is just an illusion.” I argue that Mou’s commitment to establishing and justifying a “moral metaphysics” was his main motivation for rejecting Kant’s denial of the possibility of humans having intellectual intuition. I consider the implications of Mou’s response to K…Read more
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11Vulnerable Selves and Openness to LoveAngelaki 25 (1-2): 80-83. 2020.In this personal tribute to Pamela Sue Anderson, based on many conversations, I try out the idea that she was seeking to locate an underlying metaphysical and ethical unity that makes our human vulnerability, love and reflective self-understanding both possible and intelligible. I trace this unity in Pamela’s philosophical imaginary to resonances or retrievals from three philosophers who featured in her “internal dialogues”: Spinoza, Kant and Levinas. I also allude to the great influence on Pame…Read more
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28SILENCING AND SPEAKER VULNERABILITY: undoing an oppressive form of (wilful) ignoranceAngelaki 25 (1-2): 36-45. 2020.The French feminist philosopher Michèle Le Doeuff has taught us something about “the collectivity,” which she discovers in women’s struggle for access to the philosophical, but also about “the unknown” and “the unthought.” It is the unthought which will matter most to what I intend to say today about a fundamental ignorance on which speaker vulnerability is built. On International Women’s Day, it seems appropriate to speak about – or, at least, to evoke – the silencing which has been imposed on …Read more
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17Reorienting Ourselves in (Bergsonian) Freedom, Friendship and FeminismAngelaki 25 (1-2): 23-35. 2020.Pamela Sue Anderson urges feminist philosophers to embrace Michèle Le Doeuff’s revaluation of women in philosophy through according “fair value” to intuition as an intellectual faculty, a view of intuition articulated by Henri Bergson. She asks whether women who follow Bergson could be given fair value along with intuition. She turns from Le Doeuff’s writings on intuition to writings by Bergson and by Beauvoir, but periodically returns to Le Doeuff herself. In the end, a picture of freedom, frie…Read more
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130Reviews : Judith Ryan, The Vanishing Subject: Early Psychology and Literary Modernism. London: University of Chicago Press, 1991. x + 267 pp (review)History of the Human Sciences 5 (4): 87-89. 1992.
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53Contemporary Chinese Philosophy and Philosophical AnalysisJournal of Chinese Philosophy 30 (3-4): 341-356. 2003.
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Lévinas: Chinese and Western perspectives (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2008.Leading Chinese and Western philosophers work alongside one another to explore the writings of one of the twentieth century’s most perplexing and original ethical and metaphysical thinkers. Comparative discussion of Lévinas on phenomenology, ethics, metaphysics and political philosophy within European philosophy and with Chinese philosophy Innovative accounts of Lévinasian themes of surpassing phenomenology, post-Heideggerian philosophy, the philosophy of saintliness, transcendence and immanence…Read more
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8Guest Editor's IntroductionContemporary Chinese Thought 34 (3): 3-5. 2003.Since our visual perception of physical things essentially involves our identifying objects by their colours, any theory of visual perception must contain some account of the colours of things. The central problem with colour has to do with relating our normal, everyday colour perceptions to what science, i.e. physics, teaches us about physical objects and their qualities. Although we perceive colours as categorical surface properties of things, colour perceptions are explained by introducing ph…Read more
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14Contemporary chinese philosophy (edited book)Blackwell. 2002.Contemporary Chinese Philosophy features discussion of sixteen major twentieth-century Chinese philosophers. Leading scholars in the field describe and critically assess the works of these significant figures. Critically assesses the work of major comtemporary Chinese philosophers that have rarely been discussed in English. Features essays by leading scholars in the field. Includes a glossary of Chinese characters and definitions.
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The Blackwell companion to philosophy, second editionIn Dennis M. Patterson (ed.), A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, Blackwell. 1996.
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13IntroductionIn Nicholas Bunnin, Dachun Yang & Linyu Gu (eds.), Lévinas: Chinese and Western perspectives, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 5-10. 2008.
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5Blackwell Companion to Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1996.In this comprehensive and authoritative volume, philosophers explore the issues, controversies and problems which arise from the study of philosophy - from specific specialized subject areas to the work of great historical figures. Personal overviews by John Searle and Bernard Williams establish an emphasis on developments over recent decades. The Companion functions primarily as a flexible and distinctive introductory textbook, but even advanced students will welcome its stimulating and accessi…Read more
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79The Theory of Names in Plato’s CratylusJournal of Chinese Philosophy 36 (4): 531-540. 2009.No Abstract
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33Points of view by A. W. Moore. Oxford: Clarendon press, 1997, pp. XIII + 313, £35Philosophy 74 (2): 282-295. 1999.
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108God’s Knowledge and Ours: Kant and Mou Zongsan on Intellectual IntuitionJournal of Chinese Philosophy 35 (4): 613-624. 2008.This article examines Mou Zongsan's claim that “if it is true that human beings cannot have intellectual intuition, then the whole of Chinese philosophy must collapse completely, and the thousands years of effort must be in vain. It is just an illusion.” I argue that Mou's commitment to establishing and justifying a “moral metaphysics” was his main motivation for rejecting Kant's denial of the possibility of humans having intellectual intuition. I consider the implications of Mou's response to K…Read more
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Philosophy of Language |
20th Century Philosophy |
Asian Philosophy |