Mercedes Valmisa places action at the heart of the Chinese philosophical tradition. Her masterly analysis of ancient Chinese texts generates fresh ways to understand humanity and relationality, and agency, orientation and initiative. Challenging the entrenched western philosophical categories of metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, Valmisa makes Chinese philosophy shine.
Mercedes Valmisa is Professor of Chinese and Global Philosophies at Gettysburg College. She earned her Ph.D. in Early Chinese Philosophy from Princeton University in 2017 and her M.A. from National Taiwan University in 2011.