List of Contributors
Lajos L. Brons
received a PhD from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) in 2005 for a thesis in the history and philosophy of social science. Since then, his main research interests have been the philosophy of Donald Davidson, the relations between language, thought and reality, and the realism-relativism debate in metaphysics. Currently he is affiliated with the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of Nihon University (Tokyo, Japan) as a researcher, and with Lakeland College Japan Campus (id.) as an adjunct professor of philosophy.
Zhaohua Chu (儲昭華)
is Professor of Philosophy, Wuhan University, China. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Peking University (1984) and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Wuhan University (1987). He is the authors of several monograph books (in Chinese) on Chinse philosophy including Da-Di-De-Yong-Xian (《大地的涌现》, 2003) and Ming-Feng-Zhi-Dao (《明分之道》, 2005).
Yiu-ming Fung (馮耀明)
is an Emeritus Professor of the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in philosophy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1984. He is an analytic philosopher with special interest in Chinese philosophy (especially New Confucianism, Buddhist philosophy, and the logic of Chinese language) and comparative philosophy. Before joining the HKUST, he was a research fellow at the Institute of East Asian Philosophies, Singapore, from 1985 to 1987, and taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1987 to 1997. In 1991 and 1993, he visited the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, as a research professor. He was a visiting scholar in the Institute of Chinese Studies and the Faculty of Philosophy, the University of Oxford, in 2003 and 2010. Fung has published several books, including Gong-sun Longzi: A Perspective of Analytic Philosophy (Tung Tai Book Company, 2000) and The Myth of ‘Transcendent Immanence’: A Perspective of Analytic Philosophy on Contemporary Neo-Confucianism (Chinese University Press, 2003), and more than 100 research papers both in English and in Chinese.
Ernest Lepore
is a Board of Governors professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, USA. He is the author of numerous books and papers in the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics and philosophy of mind, including Imagination and Convention (with Matthew Stone, OUP, 2015), Meaning, Mind and Matter: Philosophical Essays (with Barry Loewer, OUP, 2011), Liberating Content (with H. Cappelen, OUP, 2016), Language Turned on Itself (with H. Cappelen, OUP, 2007), Insensitive Semantics (with H. Cappelen, Blackwell, 2004), Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality (with Kirk Ludwig, OUP, 2005), Donald Davidson’s Truth-theoretic Semantics (with Kirk Ludwig, OUP, 2007), Meaning and Argument (with Sam Cumming, Blackwell, 2009), Holism: A Shopper’s Guide (with Jerry Fodor, Blackwell, 1992), The Compositionality Papers (with Jerry Fodor, OUP, 2002), and What Every Student Should Know (with Sarah-Jane Leslie, Rutgers University Press, 2002). He has edited several books, including Handbook in Philosophy of Language (with B. Smith, OUP, 2006), Truth and Interpretation (Blackwell, 1989), and What is Cognitive Science? (with Zenon Pylyshyn, Blackwell, 1999). He is also general editor of the Blackwell series “Philosophers and Their Critics”.
Aloysius P. Martinich
is Vaughan Centennial Professor in Philosophy, and Professor of History and Government at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He received his B.A. (Honours), with first honours, at the University of Windsor, Ontario and his Ph. D. at the University of California at San Diego. He is the author of Communication and Reference (De Gruyter), The Two Gods of Leviathan (Cambridge UP), Hobbes: A Biography (Cambridge UP), Philosophical Writing 4th edition (Wiley-Blackwell), editor, with David Sosa, of The Philosophy of Language 6th edition (Oxford UP), and editor, with Kinch Hoekstra, of The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes (Oxford UP). He has published articles in Asian Philosophy, Dao, The Journal of Chinese Philosophy, and Philosophy, East and West.
Jianhua Mei (梅劍華)
is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy at Peking University. His research interests include philosophy of mind and language, experimental philosophy and cognitive science. His selected publications include these: “Experimental Philosophy, Semantic Intuition and Cross Culture Style”, Philosophical Research (2011, in Chinese) and “Hempel’s Dilemma: The Formulation of Physicalism”, Journal of Dialectics of Nature (2014, in Chinese).
Bo Mou (牟博)
is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University, USA. He is Editor of the journal Comparative Philosophy and the founding president (2002–2005) of the International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP). He published in philosophy of language and logic, metaphysics, Chinese and comparative philosophy, and ethics in such journals as Synthese, Metaphilosophy, History and Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy East & West, Asian Philosophy, Journal of Chinese Philosophy. He is the author of a number of books, including Substantive Perspectivism (“Synthese Library” vol. 344, 2009), Chinese Philosophy A–Z (2010), and Semantic-Truth Approaches in Chinese Philosophy: A Unifying Pluralist Account (2018). He is a contributing editor of several books, including Two Roads to Wisdom? (2001), Davidson’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy (2006), Searle’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy (2008), History of Chinese Philosophy (2009), Constructive Engagement of Analytic and Continental Approaches in Philosophy: From the Vantage Point of Comparative Philosophy (with Richard Tieszen, 2013), and Chinese Philosophy in Routledge’s “Critical Concepts in Philosophy” reference book series (2018).
Una Stojnic
is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, USA. She work in philosophy of language, formal semantics and pragmatics, philosophical logic, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. She published articles in these areas in such journals as Nous, Linguistics and Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, and Philosophical Perspectives.
Kyle Takaki
is an independent scholar who obtained his PhD in 2008. He is interested in complexity and its relations to the continuum of tacit knowing, and has published works in various journals exploring this theme. He continues to pursue wisdom and spirituality amidst the fractures of modern philosophy.
Marshall D. Willman
is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Nanjing Campus of the New York Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 2007, where he studied logic, philosophies of language and mind, and linguistics. He has published extensively in the area of East-West comparative philosophy, and has lectured at several of Asia’s most prestigious universities, having lived in China for over ten years. Notable related publications include “Illocutionary Force and its Relation to Mood: Comparative Methodology Reconsidered”, Dao (2009), “Logical Analysis and Later Mohist Logic: Some Comparative Reflections”, Comparative Philosophy. (2010), “Ontogenesis and Phylogenesis in the Analysis of Chinese Classifiers: Remarks on Philosophical Method”, Frontier of Philosophy in China (2014), “Logic and Language in Early Chinese Philosophy”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (2016).
Yang Xiao (蕭陽)
is Professor of Philosophy at Kenyon College, USA. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. His main research interests and publications are in ethics, Chinese philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of language. He is the co-editor of Moral Relativism and Chinese Philosophy (2014), the editor of Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius (2018), and the author of The Art of Observing Water: The World of Ancient China (forthcoming).
Byeong-uk Yi
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada, and Kyung Hee International Scholar at Kyung Hee University. He studied at Seoul National University, the University of Pittsburgh, and UCLA, where he received a Ph.D. in philosophy, and held academic appointments at University of Alberta, University of Queensland, University of Glasgow, and University of Minnesota. He has published a book, Understanding the Many, and articles in many areas in logic and philosophy, including logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and semantics of classifier languages.
Xianglong Zhang (張祥龍)
is Chair Professor of Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University (at Zhuhai Campus), China, and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Peking University where he was a faculty member of the Philosophy Department. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1992. His major works include (in Chinese unless indicated otherwise): Heidegger’s Thought and Chinese Dao of Heaven (1996, 2007, 2010), From Phenomenology to Confucius (2001, 2011), Sprache und Wirklichkei (coauthored with R. Puligandla, German trans. Christiane Dick, 2005), Thinking to Take Refuge: The Chinese Ancient Philosophies in the Globalization (2007), Nine Lectures on Confucius from a Phenomenological Perspective (2009), Showing the Heart of Heaven and Earth by Restoration: The Implications and Ways of Confucian Recurrence (2014) and Home and Filial Piety: From the View between the Chinese and the Western (2017).