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Editor-in-Chief
WU Xiangdong, Beijing Normal University

Executive Editor
WANG Lyu, Beijing Normal University

Deputy Editors
M Dentith, Beijing Normal University
XIA Yonghong, Beijing Normal University

Book Reviews Editor
Grant Dufrene, University College Dublin

Associate Editors
JIANG Limei, Beijing Normal University
LI Shaomeng, Beijing Normal University
LIANG Yibin, Beijing Normal University
WAN Zhaoyuan, Beijing Normal University
ZENG Dian, Beijing Normal University
ZHENG Xudong, Beijing Normal University

Advisory Board
LIU Chuang, Fudan University
Mark Collier, University of Minnesota, Morris
Joe Ulatowski, University of Waikato
Luca Maria Scarantino, International Federation of Philosophical Societies
HUANG Yong, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jeffery McDonough, Harvard University
YANG Haifeng, Peking University
YAO Xinzhong, Renmin University of China
John Hacker-Wright, University of Guelph
Lydia Amir, Tufts University
Kenji Mori, Tohoku University
LI Hong, Beijing Normal University
LI Jianhui, Beijing Normal University
WANG Chengbing, Shanxi University
CHUNG Soyi, Sogang University
Florent Villard, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
Robin Wang, Loyola Marymount University


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Call for Papers, Special Issue: Insights on Ancient Western Philosophy

Call for Papers, Special Issue: All under Heaven: East and West

Call for Papers, Special Issue: Existence and Everyday Life: Comparative Philosophy for Today's World

Call for Papers, Special Issue: Mind without Inner Representation? Psychological Discourse, Rationality, and Mental Anti-Representationalism

Call for Proposals for Guest-Edited Thematic Special Issues



Call for Papers, Special Issue: Insights on Ancient Western Philosophy




Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2026
Guest Editor: Xiangling Deng

This Special Issue aims to showcase original, high-quality scholarly research on ancient Western philosophy, focusing on its key figures, core themes, as well as its reception in medieval philosophy. We welcome submissions that engage with ongoing international scholarly debates, offer innovative insights, and advance our understanding of this field. All submissions must comply with the JCCP Author Instructions, and will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process. Accepted articles may be published online ahead of the full issue compilation, with the complete Special Issue scheduled for formal publication by the end of 2026.


Call for Papers, Special Issue: All under Heaven: East and West



Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2026
Guest Editor: Amrollah Hemmat

Tianxia (天下, “All Under Heaven) is among the most enduring and generative concepts in Chinese thought. Although in its ancient usage the term carried a hierarchical political dimension, it was never reducible to that alone: classical Confucian thought, as expressed in texts such as the Liji (Book of Rites), envisioned "all under heaven" as a single community bound by shared responsibility and mutual care. It is this inclusive potential — latent in the concept from its origins — that a number of modern philosophers have taken up and developed, recasting tianxia as a framework for global governance, cosmopolitan coexistence, and the ethical foundations of a shared human future. In the contemporary world, this vision has assumed the highest significance.
In the face of a highly interconnected world struggling with common challenges — environmental destruction, wealth inequality, nuclear proliferation, and AI safety — it is imperative for all who live on our planet, whether in East or West, North or South, to contemplate and examine both the philosophical foundations and the pragmatic implications of such a vision. Both in China and in the West, philosophers have engaged seriously with tianxia and with related notions of harmony, unity, diversity, and pluralism, exploring their promise as well as their tensions, limitations, and contested boundaries.
This issue seeks comparative and multidisciplinary contributions that illuminate these questions, shedding light on the thought of individual philosophers and on tendencies characteristic of particular philosophical schools and trends — among them postmodernism, rationalism, idealism, Marxism, and Social Darwinism — with a particular focus on Chinese and Western discourses and their points of convergence and divergence.
Contributions may address a specific philosopher or school of thought, offer a comparative study within the Chinese or Western tradition, or articulate a broader cross-cultural comparison. Multidisciplinary approaches are welcomed, spanning social philosophy, philosophy of history, political philosophy, philosophy of science, and theological, spiritual, and mystical traditions.
Accepted articles may be published online ahead of the full issue compilation, with the complete Special Issue scheduled for formal publication by the end of 2026.


Call for Papers, Special Issue: Existence and Everyday Life: Comparative Philosophy for Today's World



Guest Editor: Tze-ki Hon

As our world has become increasingly competitive and fragmented, it is time to deploy our philosophical insights into addressing two pressing issues of our times: the meaning of existence and the hope in everyday life. While these two issues are perennial since the dawn of human civilizations, they are intricately entangled in the 21st century when the post-WWII global system is crumbling and the market economy generates glaring inequality and social injustice. Around the world, there are many philosophical approaches that address these two issues, and some of them are successful in solving problems in their societies. Given the interconnectedness of our world, it has become increasingly important to approach these perennial human problems in a cross-cultural manner, facilitating dialogue across national, cultural, and linguistic boundaries.
This special issue will bring together six articles that are transcultural in scope and comparative in methodology. The goal is to shed new light on the meaning of existence in this chaotic world, thereby giving us hope and courage to face fear and anxiety in our everyday life. Each article will target one specific problem of our contemporary world and offer solution to that problem through the lens of comparative philosophy. For scholars interested in this collective enterprise, please send abstracts to Guest Editor Tze-ki Hon.


Call for Papers, Special Issue: Mind without Inner Representation? Psychological Discourse, Rationality, and Mental Anti-Representationalism



Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2027
Expected publication: Fall 2027 / early 2028
Guest Editor: Rusong Huang

When we attribute beliefs, desires, intentions, fears, memories, imaginings, sensations, or experiences to someone, what are we doing?
Much of modern philosophy of mind has assumed that psychological sentences are representational: they describe mental states, properties, events, or processes belonging to a subject. This assumption generates familiar metaphysical pressures. If psychological sentences represent mental facts, then we must explain how such facts fit into the physical world. This gives rise to what has been variously called the location problem, the placement problem, the accommodation problem, or the problem of how mind can be at home in nature.
This special issue invites papers that examine whether the representational assumption about psychological discourse should be rejected, revised, or defended. It focuses on a family of views that challenge, in different ways, the idea that psychological sentences primarily function to represent inner mental facts. These include fictionalism, eliminativism, error theory, illusionism, and mental anti-representationalism — what we may call, for convenience, the FEEL theories and MAR. The issue welcomes both sympathetic and critical treatments of these views, as well as papers that defend more traditional representationalist approaches.
A central aim of the issue is to explore the relations among these positions. Are the FEEL theories and MAR competing alternatives, or can they be combined? Does MAR collapse into one of the FEEL theories, or does it offer a distinct way of rejecting inner-fact representationalism? Can these approaches preserve the explanatory, rational, and normative roles of psychological discourse while avoiding the metaphysical burdens of inner-object models of mind?

Submissions may address, but are not limited to:
•the semantics of psychological sentences;
•belief, desire, intention, memory, imagination, pain, or experience as mentality attributions;
•rationality and normativity in psychological explanation;
•whether psychological discourse represents inner mental facts;
•the relation between Mental Anti-Representationalism and fictionalism, eliminativism, error theory, or illusionism;
•whether anti-representationalism collapses into non-realism about the mental;
•psychological explanation without inner mental objects;
•anti-representationalism and physicalism;
•consciousness, introspection, and illusionism;
•Sellarsian, Wittgensteinian, Rylean, Davidsonian, Dennettian, McDowellian, Brandomian, expressivist, or pragmatist approaches to mind;
•implications for artificial intelligence or machine mentality.

Papers may be sympathetic, critical, historical, systematic, or comparative.
Submissions should be original articles not currently under consideration elsewhere.
Manuscripts should be prepared for anonymous review and should not exceed 10,000 words, including quotations and footnotes but excluding reference lists.


Call for Proposals for Guest-Edited Thematic Special Issues



Other examples of topics that fall within the scope of the journal:
Contemporary Confucianism
Daoist Philosophy
Ethical Theory
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Action
Philosophy of AI

If you are interested in guest editing a special issue with us, please send a brief proposal + academic CV to the JCCP Editorial Office.

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The primary objective of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy (JCCP) is to provide a platform for philosophers to showcase their latest scholarly work on topics that transcend the boundaries of traditional and modern Chinese philosophy. Rather than limiting itself to a specific Chinese philosophical tradition, it serves as a venue dedicated to research from all philosophical traditions and areas, with an interest in contributions to philosophical debates of interest to philosophers currently working in China. As philosophers from different regions have unique perspectives and concerns that are shaped by both their cultural traditions and local knowledge, these differences can lead to diverse philosophical insights and debates. The JCCP, then, aims to connect such philosophers, working both inside and outside of China, to foster debates that resonate with the philosophical community in China. In this way, the JCCP will facilitate dialogues between Chinese and international philosophers in a global venue.

The Journal of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy is sponsored by Beijing Normal University, and was launched by the International Center for Philosophy from Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai. The editorial team includes philosophers from across China and from all around the world.
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