New Waves in China's Philosophical Studies

New Waves of China's Philosophical Studies collects important research findings of China's philosophical studies conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. The book covers topics including Confucian ethics and virtue ethics, true value semantics vs. commonsensible reasoning semantics, criticisms of dogmatism, consequentialism, among others.

This book is the first volume of the WSPC-ECNU Series on China. This Series showcases the significant contributions to scholarship in social sciences and humanities studies about China. It is jointly launched by World Scientific Publishing, the most reputable English academic publisher in Asia, and ECNU, a top University in China with a long history of exchanges with the international academic community.

Contents:

• An Outline of a Concrete Metaphysics (Yang Guorong)
• What Is the History of Ideas? (Gao Ruiquan)
• Is It Possible to Ground Virtue Ethics in a Theory of Human Nature? Shuttling Between Confucian Ethics and Virtue Ethics (Liu Liangjian)
• Comparison Between Two Semantics for Deductive Logic: True Value Semantics vs. Commonsensible Reasoning Semantics (Feng Mian)
• Feng Qi's Criticisms of Dogmatism: An Argumentative Approach (Jin Rongdong)
• Linguistics and Rhetoric as the Sources of Hermeneutics (Pan Derong)
• Reason and Li Xing: A Chinese Solution to Habermas's Problem of Moral Motivation (Tong Shijun)
• The Reciprocal Accomplishment of the Self and Things: The Genesis of the World of Meaning (Yang Guorong)
• On the Basic Pattern of Kongzi's Changeology over Daoist and the Early Western Zhou Changeology in the Appendices to The Zhou Book of Change (Fu Huisheng)
• On the Function of the Useless (Chen Yun)
• Text and Interpretation (Pan Derong and Gu Cui)
• Is Philia Really Incompatible with Consequentialism? (Ge Siyou)

Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in philosophical studies in China.