Sor-hoon TanSor-hoon Tan is Professor of Philosophy at Singapore Management University. Her research focuses on comparative studies of Confucianism and John Dewey’s Pragmatism. She is the author of Confucian Democracy: A Deweyan Reconstruction, and editor of the Bloomsbury Research handbook on Chinese Philosophy Methodologies, and Challenging Citizenship: Group Membership and Cultural Identity in a Global Age. She co-edited Filial Piety in Chinese History and Thought, The Moral Circle and the Self: Chinese and Western Perspectives, Democracy as Culture: Deweyan Pragmatism in a Globalizing World, and Feminist Encounters with Confucius. Her works have appeared in Philosophy East and West, Dao: a Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Value Inquiry, Transactions of C.S. Peirce Society, Contemporary Pragmatism and other academic journals.
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Jiho OhJiho Oh is research fellow of the Institute of Confucian Culture & Philosophy at Sungkyunkwan University. She received her PhD from Duquesne University in 2020 with a dissertation study on Hegel’s “Anthropology”. Mainly working on German Classical Philosophy with priority given to Hegel’s Philosophy, her research interests include contemporary French philosophy, post-colonialism, and theories of race.
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Lyn HongLyn Hong is research fellow of the Institute of Confucian Culture & Philosophy at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. He received his PhD from the PeKing University in 2021 under the supervision of Lihua Yang. His research interests include Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism, Early Chinese moral and political thought, and propagation of Neo-Confucianism in the Early Joseon.
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Minjung BaekMinjung Baek is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Korea. She had won the Excellence in Research Award from the Dasan Cultural Foundation for her monograph titled Philosophy of Jeong Yagyong: Beyond Zhu Xi and Matteo Ricci (정약용의 철학: 주희와 마테오 리치를 넘어 새로운 세계로). She is a co-author of several books including A Study on Hyegang Choe Han-gi(혜강 최한기 연구, 2007). She also published books including Confucians Come to the Classroom (강의실에 찾아온 유학자들, 2007). Currently, her research focuses on the theory of mind and ethics of Confucian scholars during the late Joseon Korea. She is also investigating the relevance between the thoughts of traditions in the Joseon Dynasty and modern philosophy today Korea. In particular, she is attempting to evaluate various social and cultural phenomena in Korean modern society in relation to the spiritual and intellectual influences that have been passed down from the Korean history.
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Robert A. Carleo IIIRobert A. Carleo III (M.Phil. Chinese Philosophy, Fudan University; Ph.D. Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University and adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Baruch College, City University of New York. He also teaches in the international graduate program in Chinese Philosophy at East China Normal University. Working mainly on Confucian moral and political philosophy, his interests and published work center on freedom and personhood.
His translation of Li Zehou's The Origins of Chinese Thought was named Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2019. He is co-editor, with Yong Huang, of Confucian Political Philosophy: Dialogues in the state of the Field (2021) and editor and translator of The Humanist Ethics of Li Zehou (2023). |
Sungmoon KimSungmoon Kim is a professor of political theory at City University of Hong Kong where he also serves as the director of the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Kim's research interests include Confucian democratic and constitutional theory, East Asian political thought, and comparative political theory. His books include Im Yunjidang (Cambridge UP 2022), Theorizing Confucian Virtue Politics: The Political Philosophy of Mencius and Xunzi (Cambridge UP 2020), Democracy after Virtue: Toward Pragmatic Confucian Democracy (Oxford UP 2018), Public Reason Confucianism: Democratic Perfectionism and Constitutionalism in East Asia (Cambridge UP 2016), and Confucian Democracy in East Asia: Theory and Practice (Cambridge UP 2014).
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Justin Tiwald Justin Tiwald is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He has published widely on Chinese thought, both as an area of historical inquiry and as regards its implications for contemporary philosophy. His particular areas of study include Confucian, Daoist, and Neo-Confucian accounts of moral psychology, well-being, and political authority, as well as the significance of Confucian views for virtue ethics, individual rights, and moral epistemology. Recent publications include The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2023) and "'Getting It Oneself' (Zide 自得) as an Alternative to Testimonial Knowledge and Deference to Tradition" (Oxford Studies in Epistemology, 2023).
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Jeremy Reid Jeremy Reid is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He received his PhD from the University of Arizona in 2018 under the supervision of Julia Annas. Reid's research focuses on Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy and on contemporary virtue ethics. He is a specialist on Plato's Laws and works more generally on the history of constitutionalism and democracy
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Doil KimDoil Kim is Associate Professor and Director of Institute of Confucian Philosophy and Culture at Sungkyunkwan University. He has published a number of English, Korean, and Chinese papers on ethical aspects of Confucian thought and its relevance to contemporary society. Recently, he has edited two books on the early Confucian, Mencius, and the neo-Confucian, Zhu Xi. He is currently working on a book dedicated to tracing the historical roots of “Confucian Humility” and explaining its forgotten normative foundations.
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Elena ZiliottiElena Ziliotti is an Assistant Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Delft University of Technology. She works on Western democratic theory and Comparative political theory, with a particular focus on debates in contemporary Confucian political theory. She completed her PhD in Political Philosophy at King’s College London and National University of Singapore Joint PhD program in 2018. After her PhD, Elena worked as an International Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University and was a recipient of the 2019 China International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship. Her recent publications include: “Questions for Hierarchical Confucianism” (2022) The Review of Politics, “An Epistemic case for Confucian Democracy” (2020) Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, and “Democracy’s Value: A Conceptual Map” Journal of Value Inquiry (2020).
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Jong-seok NaJong-seok Na is professor at College of Liberal Arts of Yonsei University and also serves as professor at the Institute of Korean Studies of the same university. Na’s research interests include German Classical Philosophy, contemporary western political philosophy, East-Asian Confucian thoughts, and Korean modern thoughts.
He is the author of 차이와 연대: 현대 세계와 헤겔의 사회ㆍ정치철학 (Difference and Solidarity: Modern World and Hegel’s Social and Political Philosophy, 2007), 삶으로서의 철학: 소크라테스의 변론 (Philosophy as Life: Socrates’ Apology, 2007), 헤겔 정치철학의 통찰과 맹목: 서구 현대성과 복수의 현대성 사이 (Insights and Blindness of Hegel’s Political Philoosphy: Between the Western Modernity and Plural Modernities, 2012), 대동민주 유학과 21세기 실학: 한국민주주의론의 재정립 (Dae-dong Democratic Confucianism and the Twenty-first Century’s Silhak: Reconsiderations of the Theories of Korean Democracy, 2017). |