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 …

Offers the first focused study of the shifei debates of the Warring States period in ancient
China and challenges the imposition of Western conceptual categories onto these debates …

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 “School of Names”(ming jia) is the traditional Chinese label for a diverse group of
Warring States (479–221 BCE) thinkers who shared an interest in language, disputation …

This book is a study of the methodological, metaphysical, and epistemological work of the
Eastern Han Dynasty period scholar Wang Chong. It presents Wang's philosophical thought …

The Mohist Canons are a set of brief statements on a variety of philosophical and other
topics by anonymous members of the Mohist school, an influential philosophical, social, and …

This book explains a distinctive pluralist account of truth, jointly-rooted perspectivism
('JRP'for short). This explanation unifies various representative while philosophically …

The question of whether or not early Chinese philosophers had a concept of truth has been
the topic of some scholarly debate over the past few decades. The present essay offers a …

This essay argues that the third-century BC Ruist “masters” text Xúnzǐ presents a
sophisticated approach to semantics and epistemology in which a concern with truth is at …