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Formato:	Introduction
Enlaces:	This is the introduction to the content of the jounrnal's special issue (vol. 4 no. 1 / January 2013) celebrating the tenth anniversary of the International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP), which includes five peer-reviewed…
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ĀTMAN, IDENTITY, AND EMANATION: ARGUMENTS FOR A HINDU ENVIRONMENTAL ETHIC
Christopher G. Framarin; University of Calgary

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Enlaces:	Many contemporary authors argue that since certain Hindu texts and traditions claim that all living beings are fundamentally the same as Brahman (God), these texts and traditions provide the basis for an environmental ethic. I outline three common versions of…
Fecha:	2011-01-09
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COMPARATIVE ASPECTS OF AFRICANA PHILOSOPHY AND THE CONTINENTAL-ANALYTIC DIVIDE
Tommy L. Lott; San Jose State University

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Enlaces:	Critical engagement involving philosophers trained in continental and analytic traditions often takes its purpose to be a reconciliation of tensions arising from differences in style, or method. Critical engagement in Africana philosophy, however, is rarely focused on method, style, or…
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ANALYTIC AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, AND GLOBAL PHILOSOPHY
Richard Tieszen; San Jose State University

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Enlaces:	Although there is no consensus on what distinguishes analytic from Continental philosophy, I focus in this paper on one source of disagreement that seems to run fairly deep in dividing these traditions in recent times, namely, disagreement about the relation…
Fecha:	2011-07-15
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DAOISM AS CRITICAL THEORY
Mario Wenning; University of Macau

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Enlaces:	Classical philosophical Daoism as it is expressed in the Dao-De-Jing and the Zhuang-Zi is often interpreted as lacking a capacity for critique and resistance. Since these capacities are taken to be central components of Enlightenment reason and action, it would…
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ON THE VALUE OF PHILOSOPHY: THE LATIN AMERICAN CASE [abstract]
Manuel Vargas

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Enlaces:	There is very little study of Latin American philosophy in the English-speaking philosophical world. This can sometimes lead to the impression that there is nothing of philosophical worth in Latin American philosophy or its history. The present article offers some…
Fecha:	2010-02-03
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THE MINIMAL DEFINITION AND METHODOLOGY OF COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY: A REPORT FROM A CONFERENCE [abstract]
Stephen C. Angle

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Enlaces:	In June of 2008, the International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP) convened its third Constructive Engagement conference, on the theme of “Comparative Philosophy Methodology.” During the opening speeches, Prof. Dunhua ZHAO, Chair of the Philosophy…
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THE LOGIC OF THE CATUSKOTI
Graham Priest

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Enlaces:	In early Buddhist logic, it was standard to assume that for any state of aﬀairs there were four possibilities: that it held, that it did not, both, or neither. This is the catuskoti (or tetralemma). Classical logicians have had a…
Fecha:	2010-07-08
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HOW IS THIS PAPER PHILOSOPHY?
Kristie Dotson; Michigan State University

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Enlaces:	This paper answers a call made by Anita Allen to genuinely assess whether the field of philosophy has the capacity to sustain the work of diverse peoples. By identifying a pervasive culture of justification within professional philosophy, I gesture to…
Fecha:	2012-01-01
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HOW TO AVOID SOLIPSISM WHILE REMAINING AN IDEALIST: LESSONS FROM BERKELEY AND DHARMAKĪRTI
Jeremy E. Henkel; University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Enlaces:	This essay examines the strategies that Berkeley and Dharmakīrti utilize to deny that idealism entails solipsism. Beginning from similar arguments for the non-existence of matter, the two philosophers employ markedly different strategies for establishing the existence of other minds. This…
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CONTEMPORARY CONFUCIAN AND ISLAMIC APPROACHES TO DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Stephen Angle

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Enlaces:	Both Confucian and Islamic traditions stand in fraught and internally contested relationships with democracy and human rights. It can easily appear that the two traditions are in analogous positions with respect to the values associated with modernity, but a central…
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THE INCLUSIVE DYNAMICS OF ISLAMIC UNIVERSALISM: FROM THE VANTAGE POINT OF SAYYID QUTB'S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Andrea Mura; The Open University

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Enlaces:	This article pursues a topological reading of Milestones, one of the most influential books in the history of Islamism. Written by Muslim thinker Sayyid Qutb, the general interest in this crucial text has largely remained restricted to the fields of…
Fecha:	2014-01-04
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LIGHT AND AFFECTS FROM A COMPARATIVE POINT OF VIEW
Kyle Takaki; Independent Scholar

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Enlaces:	Light metaphors occurring in Chinese philosophy and Stoicism are of special interest for the unique ways they channel potentialities of the self. In this paper I apply ideas from cognitive linguistics to examine selected structural features of these metaphors. I…
Fecha:	2014-01-04
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PLURALISM ABOUT TRUTH IN EARLY CHINESE PHILOSOPHY: A REFLECTION ON WANG CHONG’S APPROACH
Alexus McLeod; University of Dayton

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Enlaces:	The debate concerning truth in Classical Chinese philosophy has for the most part avoided the possibility that pluralist theories of truth were part of the classical philosophical framework.  I argue that the Eastern Han philosopher Wang Chong (c. 25-100 CE)…
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THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY: HEIDEGGER, PERSONHOOD AND TECHNOLOGY
Mahon James O' Brien

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Enlaces:	This paper argues that a number of entrenched posthumanist positions are seriously flawed as a result of their dependence on a technical interpretive approach that creates more problems than it solves. During the course of our discussion we consider in particular…
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LOGICAL ANALYSIS AND LATER MOHIST LOGIC: SOME COMPARATIVE REFLECTIONS [abstract]
Marshall D. Willman; New York Institute of Technology

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Enlaces:	Any philosophical method that treats the analysis of the meaning of a sentence or expression in terms of a decomposition into a set of conceptually basic constituent parts must do some theoretical work to explain the puzzles of intensionality. This…
Fecha:	2010-02-03
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COMPARISON PARADOX, COMPARATIVE SITUATION AND INTER-PARADIGMATICY: A METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON CROSS-CULTURAL PHILOSOPHICAL COMPARISON [abstract]
Xianglong Zhang

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Enlaces:	It is commonly believed that philosophical comparison depends on having some common measure or standard between and above the compared parts. The paper is to show that the foregoing common belief is incorrect and therewith to inquire into the possibility…
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TYPOLOGY OF NOTHING: HEIDEGGER, DAOISM AND BUDDHISM [abstract]
Zhihua Yao

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Enlaces:	Parmenides expelled nonbeing from the realm of knowledge and forbade us to think or talk about it. But still there has been a long tradition of nay-sayings throughout the history of Western and Eastern philosophy. Are those philosophers talking about…
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THE LABYRINTH OF PHILOSOPHY IN ISLAM
Nader El-Bizri; University of Cambridge

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Enlaces:	This paper focuses on the methodological issues related to the obstacles and potential horizons of approaching the philosophical traditions in Islam from the standpoint of comparative studies in philosophy, while also presenting selected case-studies that may potentially illustrate some of…
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CONFUCIANISM AND VIRTUE ETHICS: STILL A FLEDGLING IN CHINESE AND COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
Justin Tiwald; San Francisco State University

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Enlaces:	The past couple of decades have witnessed a remarkable burst of philosophical energy and talent devoted to virtue ethical approaches to Confucianism, including several books, articles, and even high-profile workshops and conferences that make connections between Confucianism and either virtue…
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DHARMAKĪRTI, DAVIDSON, AND KNOWING REALITY
Lajos Brons; Nihon University & Keio University

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Enlaces:	If we distinguish phenomenal effects from their noumenal causes, the former being our conceptual(ized) experiences, the latter their grounds or causes in reality ‘as it is’ independent of our experience, then two contradictory positions with regards to the relationship between…
Fecha:	2012-01-01
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BENEVOLENT GOVERNMENT NOW
Howard J. Curzer; Texas Tech University

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Enlaces:	Mencian benevolent government intervenes dramatically in many ways in the marketplace in order to secure the material well-being of the population, especially the poor and disadvantaged. Mencius considers this sort of intervention to be appropriate not just occasionally when dealing…
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MOHIST APPROACH TO THE RULE-FOLLOWING PROBLEM
Chung-I Lin; National Chengchi University

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Enlaces:	The Mohist conceives the dao-following issue as “how we can put dao in words and speeches into practice.” The dao-following issue is the Mohist counterpart of Wittgenstein’s rule-following problem. This paper aims to shed light on the rule-following issue in…
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A DAOIST MODEL FOR A KANTIAN CHURCH
Stephen R. Palmquist; Hong Kong Baptist University

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Enlaces:	Although significant differences undoubtedly exist between Daoism and Kant’s philosophy, the two systems also have some noteworthy similarities. After calling attention to a few such parallels and sketching the outlines of Kant’s philosophy of religion, this article focuses on an…
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READING HAN FEI AS "SOCIAL SCIENTIST": A CASE-STUDY IN "HISTORICAL CORRESPONDENCE"
Henrique Schneider

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Enlaces:	Han Fei was one of the main proponents of Legalism in Qin-era China. Although his works are mostly read from a historic perspective, the aim of this paper is to advance an interpretation of Han Fei as a “social scientist”.…
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MENCIUS' JUN-ZI, ARISTOTLE'S MEGALOPSUCHOS, & MORAL DEMANDS TO HELP THE GLOBAL POOR
Sean Walsh

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Enlaces:	It is commonly believed that impartial utilitarian moral theories have significant demands that we help the global poor, and that the partial virtue ethics of Mencius and Aristotle do not. This ethical partiality found in these virtue ethicists has been…
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German Idealism Meets Indian Vedānta and Kaśmiri Śaivism
Katherine Elise Barhydt; Lewis & Clark College - J. M. Fritzman; Lewis & Clark College

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Enlaces:	Regarding each philosophy as a variation of that of Spinoza, this article compares the German Idealism of Schelling and Hegel with the Indian Vedānta of Śaṅkara and Rāmānuja, as well as Abhinavagupta’s Kaśmiri Śaivism. It argues that only Hegel’s philosophy…
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Neoplatonism and Paramādvaita
Michal Just

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Enlaces:	There has long been a debate on the possible  similarity between some forms of Indian and Greek idealistic monism (Advaita and Neoplatonism). After a basic historical introduction to the debate, the text proposes that Paramādvaita, also known as Kashmiri Shaivism,…
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Palaeo-Philosophy: Archaic Ideas about Space and Time
Paul S. MacDonald; Murdoch university

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Enlaces:	This paper argues that efforts to understand historically remote patterns of thought are driven away from their original meaning if the investigation focuses on reconstruction of concepts, instead of cognitive ‘complexes’. My paper draws on research by Jan Assmann, Jean-Jacques…
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Moral Realism and Anti-Realism outside the West: A Meta-Ethical Turn in Buddhist Ethics
Gordon Fraser Davis; Dept. of Philosophy, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada)

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Enlaces:	In recent years, discussions of Buddhist ethics have increasingly drawn upon the concepts and tools of modern ethical theory, not only to compare Buddhist perspectives with Western moral theories, but also to assess the meta-ethical implications of Buddhist texts and…
Fecha:	2013-07-02
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