Professor Yang Xiao
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Yang Xiao is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Kenyon College. Prof. Xiao was born in Southern China. He received his B.A. in theoretical physics from Wuhan University, and his M.A. in philosophy of language from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). From 1987 to 1993 he was a junior research fellow in the Institute of Philosophy at CASS. In 1989 he was a visiting student at Wolfson College at Oxford University, where he studied with Sir Peter Strawson. He worked with Prof. Richard Bernstein at the New School, and in the late 1990s, he studied with Prof. Bernard Williams. Prof. Xiao has taught at Kenyon College since 2003. He has been the Book Review Editor of Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy since 2005. Research Interests Ethics and Moral Psychology, Chinese Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, and Political Philosophy. Education Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the Fairbank Center, Harvard University, 2002-2003. Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, 1999. Work in Progress Publications: Journal Articles and Book Chatpers “Practical Reasoning and Agency in the Analects and the Mencius.” “Ideal Interpretation: The Theories of Zhu Xi and Ronald Dworkin.” “Ethical Thought in China.” “How Confucius Does Things with Words: Two Paradigms of Hermeneutic Practice in the Analects and Its Exegeses.” “Reading the Analects with Davidson: Mood, Force, and Communicative Practice in Early China.” “When Political Philosophy Meets Moral Psychology: Expressivism in the Mencius.” “The Pragmatic Turn: Articulating Communicative Practice in the Analects.” “Rediscovering Republicanism in China.” Special Issue on Political Philosophy and Political Reform. “Modernity as Differentiation: Liang Qichao’s Social and Political Philosophy.” “Trying to Do Justice to the Concept of Justice in Confucian Ethics.” “Rawls's Theory of Civil Disobedience and Its Chinese Version.” “The Law of Causality, Historicism, and Individual Autonomy.” Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Menzi, ed. Xiusheng Liu and Philip J. Ivanhoe, Hackett Publishing, 2002. Chinese Philosophy in an Age of Globalization, ed. Robin R. Wang, SUNY Press, 2004. Human Rights and Chinese Thought, by Stephen Angle, Cambridge University Press, 2002. Recent Conferences, 2009-2003 Discussant, Invited Symposium “Early Confucian Moral Philosophy.” Discussant, Mini-Conference on Neo-Confucian Moral Psychology. “Mencius’s Virtue Politics.” Chair, Panel on “Natural Moralities: Author Meets Critics.” Discussant, Panel on Grounds for Ethical Norms in Chinese Thought. “Practical Reasoning and Agency in Mencius and Aristotle.” “The Justifications and Sources of Ritual Actions in the Mozi and the Mencius.” Discussant, “Zhuangzi’s Sage as a Moral Agent.” Chair, Panel on Chinese Aesthetics and Metaphysics in Comparative Perspective. “A Confucian Theory of Action.” Invited Participant. “The Pragmatic Turn: Understanding Communicative Practice in Early China.” “The Power of Virtue (De): A Dialogue among Shang Yang, Confucius, and Laozi.” “Historicism and Political Thought.” “Reading the Analects with Davidson.” “How Confucius Does Things with Words.” “The Hermeneutic Implications of Davidson’s Theory of Meaning.” “Practicing Moral Psychology in Early China.” Contact Information Note to publishers who wish to have their scholarly books on comparative philosophy reviewed by Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy – please send your books to the following address: Office Phone: (740)427-5287
March 15, 2009 |
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