This innovative book explores the preconditions necessary for intercultural and comparative
philosophy. Philosophical practices that involve at least two different traditions with no …

Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy deals with debates surrounding the concept of truth
in early Chinese thought, from the earliest periods through to the Han dynasty. Alexus …

In this paper, I discuss how certain social, cultural practices, namely different kinds of
dialogical and argumentative practices, may influence how humans reason. I will focus …

Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China
experienced a language crisis. Jane Geaney argues that early Chinese conceptions of …

This chapter presents a detailed overview of the philosophy of language and logic
presented in the Xunzi. Xunzi frames his main discussion of language and logic around the …

The article proposes an account of the prevailing classical Chinese conception of reasoning
and argumentation that grounds it in a semantic theory and epistemology centered on …

The present article provides an introduction to classical Chinese logic, a term which refers to
ancient discourses that were developed before the arrival of significant external influences …

In the Chinese tradition, the earliest and most well-known paradoxes are ascribed to figures
associated with the “School of Names”(ming jia 名家), a diverse group of Warring States …

The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China makes an innovative contribution to
studies of language by historicizing the Chinese notion that words have" meaning"(content …

The so‐called “white horse is not horse”(bái mǎ fēi mǎ 白馬非馬) debate, or “white
horse”(bái mǎ 白馬) dialogical argument, is beyond doubt the most famous case of …