Philosophy East and West vol. 69, no. 3

The new issue of Philosophy East and West features a special section, “Politics, Nature, and Society — The Actuality of North African Philosopher Ibn Khaldūn,” guest edited by Tamara Albertini, as well as a book discussion on Vrinda Dalmiya’s Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mahābhārata, along with other articles and reviews.



Ibn Khaldūn: A Philosopher for Times of Crisis
Tamara Albertini

Political Power, the Maghreb Space, and the “Arab Spring”: A Reading through Ibn Khaldūn’s Looking Glass
Ridha Chennoufi

Beyond the Fourth Generation: Constituting a Muslim State in the Thought of Ibn Khaldūn and Khayr al-Dīn al-Tūnisī
Jeremy Kleidosty

The (Re-)Introduction of Ibn Khaldūn to Spain: A Journey Passing through Ortega y Gasset’s Work
Cynthia Scheopner

Ibn Khaldūn’s Notion of ‘Umrān: An Alternative Unit of Analysis for Contemporary Politics?
M. Akif Kayapınar

The Refutation of Astrology in Ibn Khaldūn’s Muqaddima: A Study of His Multileveled Reasoning Capability
Mehdi Saiden

Ibn Khaldūn and the Immanence of Judgment
Lenn E. Goodman

Ibn al-Haytham, from Place to Space: A Comparative Approach
Yomna T. Elkholy

The Suberogation Problem for Lei Zhong’s Confucian Virtue Theory of Supererogation
Tsung-Hsing Ho

Scriptural Injunctivism: Reading Yeshayahu Leibowitz in the Light of Mīmāṃsā Philosophy
Dimitry Shevchenko

Buddhist Philosophy of Mind: Nāgārjuna’s Critique of Mind-Body Dualism from His Rebirth Arguments
Sonam Thakchoe

The Endless Pursuit of Self-Perfection: A Hidden Dialogue between Mou Zongsan and F. H. Bradley
Roy Tseng

Book Discussion

Comparative Epistemology
Linda Martín Alcoff

Caring about Care
Eva Feder Kittay

The Nature of the Disposition to Care: Discursive and Pre-discursive Dimensions
Keya Maitra

The Importance of Being Modest
Nilanjan Das

Caring to Know: Response to Commentators
Vrinda Dalmiya

Comment and Discussion

When Science is in Defense of Value-Linked Facts
Donald J. Munro

The Plasticity of the Human and Inscribing History within Biology: A Response to Donald J. Munro
Sonya N. Özbey

Online Book Reviews

Tarō Naka, Music: Selected Poems trans. by Andrew Houwen and Chikako Nihei (review)
Ryan Johnson

The Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gītā: A Contemporary Introduction by Keya Maitra (review)
Malcolm Keating

The Mandala Sutra and Its English Translation: The New Dunhuang Museum Version Revised by Yang Zengwen (review)
Ma Lijuan

Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover’s Journey into Christianity and Judaism by Neela Bhattacharya Saxena (review)
Swami Narasimhananda

Confucianism for the Contemporary World: Global Order, Politial Plurality, and Social Action ed. by Tze-ki Ton and Kristin Stapleton (review)
Bin Song

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Vincent Shen, 1949–2018.
Vincent Shen, 1949–2018.

Vincent Shen submitted his paper, “Desire, Representing Process, and Translatability” for blind review in 2017. Unfortunately, he passed away on Nov. 14, 2018, while the paper was in the last stages of copyediting. In this issue, Mingran Tan remembers this inspiring mentor and the editors at Philosophy East and West are honored to publish one of Prof. Shen’s last essays.

Philosophy East and West vol. 69, no. 2 includes the following scholarly works:

Remembering Vincent Shen
Mingran Tan

Desire, Representing Process, and Translatability
Vincent Shen

Paul Tillich, Zhuangzi, and the Creational Role of Nonbeing
David Chai

Wang Bi’s Commentary on the Analects: A Confucian-Daoist Critique of Effable Morality
Paul J. D’Ambrosio

The Theory of the Self in the Zhuangzi: A Strawsonian Interpretation
Jenny Hung

Things Endure While We Fade Away: Tao Yuanming on Being Himself
Michael D. K. Ing

The No-Self View and the Meaning of Life
Baptiste Le Bihan

Abhidharma Metaphysics and the Two Truths
Kris McDaniel

A Pro-Realist Account of Gongsun Long’s “White Horse Dialogue”
Yuan Ren, Yuyu Liu

This Strange Idea of Art
Joseph Tanke

Agent and Deed in Confucian Thought
George Tsai

Knowledge, Action, and Virtue in Zhu Xi
Matthew D. Walker

“A Rich Conception of the Surface”: On Feng Zikai’s Paintings to Protect Life
Hektor K. T. Yan

Book Discussion

Bell’s Model of Meritocracy for China: Two Confucian Amendments
Yong Huang

Missing Links in The China Model
Chenyang Li

Meritocracy as a Political System: A Commentary on Bell’s The China Model
Binfan Wang

Toward Confucian-Inspired Democratic Meritocracy: A Response to Yong Huang, Chenyang Li, and Binfan Wang
Daniel A. Bell

Beyond Philosophical Euromonopolism: Other Ways of—Not Otherwise than—Philosophy
Bret W. Davis

Undoing Western Hegemony, Unpacking the Particulars:Taking Back Philosophy: A Review of Bryan Van Norden’s Taking Back Philosophy A Multicultural Manifesto
David H. Kim

A Comparative Feminist Reflection on Race and Gender
Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee

Response to Comments by Bret Davis, David Kim, and Lisa Rosenlee on Taking Back Philosophy
Bryan W. Van Norden

Online Book Reviews

Tang Junyi: Confucian Philosophy and the Challenge of Modernity by Thomas Fröhlich (review) Chor-yung Cheung

Order in Early Chinese Excavated Texts: Natural, Supernatural, and Legal Approaches by Zhongjiang Wang (review)
Thomas Michael

Philosophy in Colonial India ed. by Sharad Deshpande (review)
Swami Narasimhananda

The Emotions in Early Chinese Philosophy by Curie Virág (review)
Ellen Y. Zhang

Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement ed. by Bo Mou (review)
Rohan Sikri

Read more in Volume 69

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We are proud to publish an extensive list of Pacific, Asian, and Southeast Asian studies journals. This Asian / Pacific American Heritage Month, explore and enjoy the following free journal content online:

Open Access Journals:

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Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific (46#1, 2007)

Asian Theatre Journal: Official Journal of the Association for Asian Performance (23#1, 2006)

Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture (1, 2007)

Buddhist-Christian Studies: Official Journal of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies (27, 2007)

China Review International: Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies (15#1, 2008)

The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs (15#1, 2003)

Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (3#1, 2014)

The Hawaiian Journal of History (49, 2015)

Journal of Daoist Studies (8, 2015)

Journal of Korean Religions (6#1, 2015)

Korean Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal on Korea and Koreans Abroad (29, 2005)

MĀNOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing: New Writing from America, the Pacific, and Asia (19#1, 2007)

Oceanic Linguistics: Current Research on Languages of the Oceanic Area (50#2, 2011)

Pacific Science: Biological and Physical Sciences of the Pacific Region (71#4, 2017)

Philosophy East & West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy (53#3, 2007)

Rapa Nui Journal: The journal of the Easter Island Foundation (30#2, 2016)

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Philosophy East and West, vol. 68, no. 4 (October 2018)

Philosophy East and West vol. 68, no. 4 includes the following scholarly works:

Ru Meditation: Gao Panlong (1562–1626 C.E.) trans. by Bin Song (review)
by Leah Kalmanson

Knowledge and Power in the Philosophies of Ḥamīd al-Dīn Kirmānī and Mullā Ṣadrā Shirazi by Sayeh Meisami (review)
by Khalil Toussi

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Briefe über China (1694-1716): Die Korrespondenz mit Barthélemy Des Bosses S.J. und anderen Mitgliedern des Ordens ed. by Rita Widmaier and Malte-Ludolf Babin (review)
by Eric S. Nelson

Egocentricity and Mysticism: An Anthropological Study by Ernst Tugendhat (review)
by Christian Helmut Wenzel

Rules of Composition: A Mereological Examination of the Dao-You Relation
by Rafał Banka

I am Not a Sage but an Archer: Confucius on Agency and Freedom
by Rina Marie Camus

Zhuangzi’s Knowing-How and Skepticism
by Wai Wai Chiu

In a Double Way: Nāmarūpa in Buddhaghosa’s Phenomenology
by Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Madhyamaka, Metaphysical Realism, and the Possibility of an Ancestral World
by Simon P. James

Self in Nature, Nature in the Lifeworld: A Reinterpretation of Watsuji’s Concept of Fūdo
by David W. Johnson

Huayan Numismatics as Metaphysics: Explicating Fazang’s Coin-Counting Metaphor
by Nicholaos Jones

The Context(s) of “Correct Seeing”: Truth and Fiction in Tibetan Madhyamaka
by Constance Kassor

The Discontents of Moderate Political Confucianism and the Future of Democracy in East Asia
by Zhuoyao Li

The Dao and the Form: Innate Divisions and the Natural Hermeneutics of Plato and Zhuangzi
by Mingjun Lu

The Logic of Not: An Invitation to a Holistic Mode of Thinking from an East Asian Perspective—An Essay in Celebration of Roger Ames on the Occasion of His Retirement
by Shigenori Nagatomo

China’s Particular Values and the Issue of Universal Significance: Contemporary Confucians Amidst the Politics of Universal Values
by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman

Contrasting Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika and Buddhist Explanations of Attention
by Alex Watson

Women on Love: Idealization in the Philosophies of Diotima (The Symposium) and Murasaki Shikibu (The Tale of Genji)
by Sandra A. Wawrytko

An Alternative Way of Confucian Sincerity: Wang Yangming’s “Unity of Knowing and Doing” as a Response to Zhu Xi’s Puzzle of Self-Deception
by Zemian Zheng

Plus book reviews.


About the Journal

Promoting academic literacy on non-Western traditions of philosophy, Philosophy East and West has for over half a century published the highest-quality scholarship that locates these cultures in their relationship to Anglo-American philosophy.

Submissions

The journal welcomes specialized articles in Asian philosophy and articles that seek to illuminate, in a comparative manner, the distinctive characteristics of the various philosophical traditions in the East and West. See the submission guidelines here.

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Top Downloaded Articles 2018: Religion and Philosophy

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Top Downloaded Articles of 2018

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The British Empire and the Suppression of the Slave Trade to Brazil: A Global History Analysis by Tâmis Parron

Beyond Paradise? Retelling Pacific Stories in Disney’s Moana by A Mārata Ketekiri Tamaira and Dionne Fonoti

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Philosophy East and West, vol. 68, no. 3 (July 2018)

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Philosophy East and West vol. 68, no. 3 includes the following scholarly works:

ARTICLES

Śāntarakṣita on Personal Identity: A Comparative Study
by Wenli Fan

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Johanan Alemanno, and The Book of Love by Al-Ghazāli
Scott Michael Girdner

Self-Cognition? Saṃghabhadra, Armstrong, and Introspective Consciousness
by Chih-chiang Hu Continue reading “Philosophy East and West, vol. 68, no. 3 (July 2018)”

Philosophy East and West, vol. 68, no. 2 (April 2018)

Philosophy East and West vol. 68, no. 2 includes the following scholarly works:

Articles

Life without Belief: A Madhyamaka Defense of the Livability of Pyrrhonism
by Robin Brons

Creatio ex nihilo and Ancient Chinese Philosophy: A Revisiting of Robert Neville’s Thesis
by Yonghua Ge

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Johanan Alemanno, al-Ghazālī’s The Niche
of Lights
by Scott Michael Girdner

Promising Across Lives to Save Non-Existent Beings: Identity, Rebirth, and the Bodhisattva’s Vow
by Stephen E. Harris

Kumārila and Knows-Knows
by Daniel Immerman

Nishida Kitarō’s Philosophy of Absolute Nothingness (Zettaimu no tetsugaku) and Modern Theoretical Physics
by Agnieszka Kozyra

Sounding out Différance: Derrida, Saussure, and Bhartr. hari
by Charles Li

Tradition and Modernity in Liang Shuming’s Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philosophies
by Philippe Major

Artistic Production and the Making of the Artist: Applying Nishida Kitarō to Discussions of Authorship
by Kyle Peters

An Approach to Comparative Phenomenology: Nishida’s Place of Nothingness and Merleau-Ponty’s Negativity
by Maria Carmen López Sáenz

Transmitting the Sage’s “Heart” (II): Instructing Absolute Practice—The Perfection of the Perfect Teaching in Mou Zongsan’s Reconstruction of the Confucian Daotong
by Rafael Suter

The Commentary Tradition on Suhrawardī
by L. W. Cornelis van Lit

Incommensurability and Comparative Philosophy
by Xinli Wang

Plus commentary and discussion, a featured review, print book reviews, books received, and online book reviews.


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Promoting academic literacy on non-Western traditions of philosophy, Philosophy East and West has for over half a century published the highest-quality scholarship that locates these cultures in their relationship to Anglo-American philosophy.

Subscriptions

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The journal welcomes specialized articles in Asian philosophy and articles that seek to illuminate, in a comparative manner, the distinctive characteristics of the various philosophical traditions in the East and West. See the submission guidelines here.

Philosophy East and West, vol. 68, no. 1 (January 2018)

Philosophy East and West vol. 68, no. 1 kicks off the new year with its first release of online book reviews at Project MUSE and the following print articles on comparative Eastern and Western philosophies:

Articles

“Striking Similarities”: Ibn Sīnā’s Takhyīl and Kant’s Aesthetic Judgment
by Balqis al-Karaki

Logos and Dao Revisited: A Non-Metaphysical Interpretation
by Steven Burik

A Chinese Way of Thinking
by Mark Gamsa

Hegel and Islam
by M.A.R. Habib

The Rise of Modern Science: Islam and the West
by Maisarah Hasbullah and Mohd Hazim Shah Abdul Murad

Grounded on Nothing: The Spirit of Radical Criticism in Nishida’s Philosophy
by Yūjin Itabashi

Ibn Sīnā’s Solution to Kant’s Challenging View of Existence
by Mirsaeid Mousavi Karimi

Is the Empathy-Induced Motivation to Help Egoistic or Altruistic: Insights from the Neo-Confucian Cheng Hao
by Yat-hung Leung 梁逸鴻

The Poetics of the Body in Islamic Mysticism
by Katharine Loevy

Stoics and Daoists on Freedom as Doing Necessary Things
by David Machek

No-Self in Sām. khya: A Comparative Look at Classical Sām. khya and Theravāda Buddhism
by Douglas Osto

Transmitting the Sage’s “Heart” (I): Unsealing Moral Autonomy— Intellectual Intuition and Mou Zongsan’s Reconstruction of the “Continuity of the Way” (Daotong)
by Rafael Suter

Plus commentary and discussion, a featured review, print book reviews, books received, and online book reviews.


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PEW68_1COVER (2)About the Journal

Promoting academic literacy on non-Western traditions of philosophy, Philosophy East and West has for over half a century published the highest-quality scholarship that locates these cultures in their relationship to Anglo-American philosophy.

Subscriptions

Single issue sales and annual subscriptions for both individuals and institutions available here.

Submissions

The journal welcomes specialized articles in Asian philosophy and articles that seek to illuminate, in a comparative manner, the distinctive characteristics of the various philosophical traditions in the East and West. See the submission guidelines here.

Religion and Philosophy Journals from the University of Hawai`i Press

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Submission guidelines for BCS are available online. 

 

jdsThe Journal of Daoist Studies (JDS) is an annual publication dedicated to the scholarly exploration of Daoism in all its different dimensions. Each issue has three main parts: Academic Articles on history, philosophy, art,society, and more (limit 8,500 words); Forum on Contemporary Practice on issues of current activities both in China and other parts of the world (limit 5,000 words); and News of the Field, presenting publications, dissertations, conferences and websites.

For submission guidelines please contact daojournal@gmail.com.

 

jksThe Journal of Korean Religions is the only English-language academic journal dedicated to the study of Korean religions. It aims to stimulate interest in and research on Korean religions across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Launched in 2010 by the Institute for the Study of Religion at Sogang University in Korea, it is peer-reviewed and published twice yearly, in April and October.

Submission guidelines for JKR are available online.

 

Promoting academic literacy on non-Western traditions of philosophy, Philosophy East PEWand West has for over half a century published the highest-quality scholarship that locates these cultures in their relationship to Anglo-American philosophy. Philosophy defined in its relationship to cultural traditions broadly integrates the professional discipline with literature, science, and social practices. Each issue includes debates on issues of contemporary concern and critical reviews of the most recent publications.

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Philosophy East and West, vol. 67, no. 4 (October 2017)

This quarter’s journal of comparative Eastern and Western philosophies is a Special Issue entitled: Eleventh East-West Philosophers’ Conference, “State-of-the-Art on Comparative Philosophy” with guest editor Ron Bontekoe and includes the following scholarly works:

In Memoriam

Remembering Jiyuan Yu
by Chenyang Li

special issue articles

Some Opening Remarks on the Exclusionary Tendency in Western Philosophy
by Ron Bontekoe

The Place of Philosophy
by Danielle Macbeth

Response to Danielle Macbeth, “The Place of Philosophy”
by Stephen C. Angle

Reply to Stephen Angle
by Danielle Macbeth

Ethnocentrism and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Philosophy
by Brian Bruya

Continue reading “Philosophy East and West, vol. 67, no. 4 (October 2017)”

#LookItUP: Religion and Politics in UHP Journals

 

upweekiconThis is Part 5 in a series of University of Hawai`i Press blog posts celebrating University Press Week and highlighting scholarship published by UH Press journals in the past year. Read our introductory blog post here. Our hope is that this series will shed new light on how UH Press “sells the facts,” so to speak, and the value our 24 journals bring to our very existence. Links to each journal and article are provided below.*


Religion and Politics

00_BCS 37_c1 and c4_REVBuddhist-Christian Studies, Volume 37, 2017
Special Section:
What Is Wrong With Us? What Is Wrong with the World?

Context: A sign of the times: Volume 37 of Buddhist-Christian Studies includes a special section of four articles where theologians attempt to answer these questions: What is Wrong With Us? What is Wrong With the World?

 

 

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Palapala: A Journal for Hawaiian Language and Literature, Volume 1, 2017
Article: “No ka Baibala Hemolele: The Making of the Hawaiian Bible” by Jeffrey Lyon

Context: In the first peer-reviewed Hawaiian language journal to be published exclusively online, Palapala editor and author Jeffrey “Kapali” Lyon shares the history behind the making of the Hawaiian Bible, the largest single volume ever printed in the Hawaiian language.

 

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Journal of Korean ReligionsVolume 8, Number 1, April 2017
Special Issue: The 1,400th Anniversary of Wŏnhyo’s Birth

Context: How long can a religious figure shape the cultural landscape of a nation? In the case of Wŏnhyo 元曉, we can confidently say 1,400 years. The editors of the Journal of Korean Religions curated a special issue showing how the Korean Buddhist scholar’s writings “continue to inspire the current generation of intellectuals in Korea, Asia, and the West.”

 

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Philosophy East and WestVolume 67, Number 4, October 2017
Special Issue: Eleventh East-West Philosophers’ Conference, “State-of-the-Art on Comparative Philosophy”

Context: Philosophy East and West Volume 67 tackles issues around the long-standing tendency of Western philosophers to reject the legitimacy of Chinese, Indian and Japanese philosophy.

 

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