Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy: A Constructive-Engagement Account

ISBN-13: 9781032336466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 448 str.

Bo Mou

Opis

This book presents an account of how cross-tradition engagement in philosophy is possible. This account, by way of reflective criticism, argumentation, and methodological guiding principles, inquires into how different philosophical traditions can learn from each other and make joint contributions to contemporary philosophy.

Spis treści

Introduction

Part I. Theoretic Foundations: How Cross-Tradition Engagement is Possible

Chapter 1. Normative Bases for Engagement

Chapter 2. The Issue of Incommensurability

Chapter 3. The Issue of Philosophical Interpretation

Part II. Case Analyses

Chapter 4. Yin-Yang and Hegelian Models of How to Look at Contraries: An Overall-Complementarity-Seeking Account

Chapter 5. Confucius’ and Socrates’ Distinct Perspectives in Treating Issue of Filial-Piety Virtue

Chapter 6. Daoist Approach to the Issue of Being in Engaging with Quinean and Heideggerian Approaches

Chapter 7. Zhuang Zi’s and Quine’s Naturalist Approaches to Epistemology

Chapter 8. Gongson Long’s Treatment of "White-Horse-Not-Horse" Thesis in Engaging with Fregran and Kripkean Approaches to the Issue of Reference

Chapter 9. Later Mohist Approach and Modern Logic Resources in Treating Logical Inferences

Conclusion. Toward Constructively Engaging

O autorze

Bo Mou is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University, USA. He is the author of Substantive Perspectivism (2009) and Semantic-Truth Approaches in Chinese Philosophy: A Unifying Pluralist Account (2019) and the contributing editor of History of Chinese Philosophy (2009) and Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy (2018).