【ISSF】2025 Early Chinese Philosophy in Comparative and Contemporary Perspectives

● Tao Jiang（蒋韬） Professor

Tao Jiang（蒋韬）, Professor of Religion and Philosophy, with joint appointments in the Department of Religion and the Department of Philosophy, at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, US. His areas of specializations include classical Chinese philosophy, Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy, and cross-cultural philosophy. He is the author of Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China (Oxford University Press, 2021), Contexts and Dialogue: Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind, and the co-editor (with Philip J. Ivanhoe) of The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China: China’s Freudian Slip. He has also been working on several other book projects, including a new interpretation of Linji's Chan/Zen Buddhist philosophy, Buddha Nature in medieval Chinese intellectual history, and a comparative project on free will. His articles have appeared in leading Asian and comparative philosophy journals and several major anthologies. He is the director of the Center for Chinese Studies at Rutgers University, and the founder and co-director of the Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy. He also co-chair the Neo-Confucian Studies Seminar at Columbia University. He serves on the editorial boards of Dao, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Confucian Philosophy and Culture, and Journal of Buddhist Philosophy.

蒋韬 教授

蒋韬，美国新泽西州罗格斯大学宗教、哲学教授，任教于宗教系和哲学系，主要从事中国先秦哲学、大乘佛教哲学和跨文化哲学的研究。著有《中国先秦道德政治哲学的起源》（Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China. Oxford University Press, 2021）和《语境与对话：佛教瑜伽行派与现代心理学论潜意识》（Contexts and Dialogue: Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind）；与艾文贺（Philip J. Ivanhoe）合编《弗洛伊德与中国》（The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China: China’s Freudian Slip）。目前还处于创作阶段的著作包括对临济禅宗思想的新解、中国中世纪思想史中的佛性论以及对自由意志的比较研究。他的文章发表于重要的亚洲和比较哲学期刊以及文集中。他是罗格斯大学中国研究中心主任，曾任宗教系系主任九年。他是罗格斯大学中国哲学研讨会的共同发起人与负责人，并共同主持哥伦比亚大学新儒家研讨会。他还是《道》(Dao)、《中国哲学》(Journal of Chinese Philosophy)、《儒家哲学与文化》(Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture)与《佛教哲学》(Journal of Buddhist Philosophy) 等学术期刊的编委成员。

● Tongdong Bai（白彤东） Professor

Dr. Tongdong Bai (白彤东), born in Beijing, China, is the Dongfang Chair Professor at the School of Philosophy at Fudan University in China, an adjunct professor at NYU-Shanghai, and a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. He held a bachelor degree in nuclear physics and a master degree in the philosophy of science from Peking University, and obtained his doctoral degree in philosophy from Boston University. He was a tenured associate professor at Xavier University in Cincinnati before he moved to Fudan, and was the first tenured philosophy teacher from the U.S. who has returned to China as a full-time faculty member. In the academic year of 2016-2017, he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Berggruen Fellow at Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. His research interests include Chinese philosophy and political philosophy, especially the comparative and contemporary relevance of traditional Chinese political philosophy. In addition to many articles published in prestigious journals in these areas, he has two books in English: China: The Political Philosophy of the Middle Kingdom (Zed Books, 2012), and Against Political Equality: The Confucian Case (Princeton University Press, 2019); he has also published three books in Chinese, A New Mission of an Old State: The Comparative and Contemporary Relevance of Classical Confucian Political Philosophy (Peking University Press, 2009), Tension of Reality: Einstein, Bohr and Pauli in the EPR Debates (Peking University Press, 2009), and Tian Xia: Five Lectures on the Mencius (Guangxi Shifan University Press, 2021). He is now working on the philosophy of Han Fei Zi (circa 250 BCE), a “Legalist” and a harsh critic of Confucians, as well as a real-life princeling who is often compared with Machiavelli and Hobbes. At Fudan, he established an MA, Visiting Student, and Auditing program in Chinese philosophy with courses taught in English that is intended to promote the studies of Chinese philosophy in the world, and is targeted at students who wish to learn Chinese philosophy, but whose Chinese is not good enough yet for them to do so in Chinese. Since its launch in 2011, the program has proven to be the most successful program of its kind in China. He delivers lectures, in Chinese and English, in different venues, and is also involved in other social activities and organizations, all of which are aimed at promoting new political norms that are informed and inspired by traditional Chinese philosophy and comparative political philosophy.

白彤东 教授

白彤东博士（1970年生于北京）是复旦大学哲学学院教授（博导），梵蒂冈宗座社会科学院（The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences）院士，上海纽约大学兼职教授；曾任上海高校特聘教授（东方学者），纽约大学法学院的兼职教授。他是北京大学核物理专业学士、北京大学科学哲学硕士、波士顿大学哲学博士。在2010年春加入复旦大学之前，他已经在美国泽维尔（Xavier）大学哲学系获终身教职，任职副教授，之后成为第一个放弃美国哲学终身教职而返回大陆的华人教授。他也曾是哈佛大学Edmond J. Safra伦理中心的在驻访问学者，也曾是福布莱特访问学者。他的研究兴趣包括中国哲学和政治哲学，尤其是先秦政治哲学的当代意义之问题。除发表过多篇中英文论文、并在一些中英文哲学刊物中任职之外，他的著作有Against Political Equality: The Confucian Case (Princeton University Press) （中文修订版：《探寻理想政体：儒家的差等秩序》，北京大学出版社），China: The Political Philosophy of the Middle Kingdom (Zed Books)，《天下：孟子五讲》（广西师大出版社），《旧邦新命：古今中西参照下的古典儒家政治哲学》（北京大学出版社）和《实在的张力：EPR论争中的爱因斯坦、玻尔与泡利》（北京大学出版社）。他现在致力于韩非子政治哲学的比较研究，试图拓展政治哲学的视角，从中西共同关注的良治以及西方对正义与立法的执着，转向治的问题与立法之外的治理问题。他在复旦大学哲学学院开办了以英文授课的、面向外国学生的中国哲学硕士和访问学生项目，意图推动中国哲学的世界地位和培养下一代海外中国哲学的研究人才，该项目是中国大陆类似项目中最成功的项目之一。

●Franklin Perkins（方岚生） Professor

Franklin Perkins, Professor of Philosophy and Graduate Chair at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and editor of the journal Philosophy East and West. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Pennsylvania State University. He has previously taught at Vassar College, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), the University of Chicago, and at DePaul University, where he was also director of the Chinese Studies Program. He is the author of Heaven and Earth are not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy (Indiana, 2014), which gives a history of early Chinese philosophy in terms of responses to a growing consensus that the order of nature is not itself ethical. This consensus arose from a version of the problem of evil: the recognition that bad things happen to good people. His most recent book is Doing What You Really Want: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mengzi (Oxford, 2022). He was also co-editor (with Chenyang Li) of Chinese Metaphysics and Its Problems (Cambridge, 2015). Perkins was originally trained in the history of European Philosophy, particularly the Early Modern Period. He has authored two books on the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Leibniz: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury, 2007), and Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light (Cambridge, 2004). His books have been translated into Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. His main teaching and research interests are in classical Chinese philosophy, early modern European philosophy, and in the challenges of doing philosophy in a comparative or intercultural context. In the past few years, he has been focused particularly on the philosophical significance of recently excavated Chinese texts that were buried around 300 BCE.

Franklin Perkins（方岚生）教授

夏威夷大学马诺阿分校哲学教授兼研究生项目主任，《东西方哲学》（Philosophy East and West）期刊主编。他于宾夕法尼亚州立大学取得哲学博士学位，曾执教于瓦萨学院、新加坡南洋理工大学、芝加哥大学和德保罗大学（曾为德保罗大学中国研究项目主任）。著有Heaven and Earth Are Not Humane：The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy（Indiana, 2014；中译本《天地不仁：中国古典哲学的恶的问题》，江苏人民出版社2024年），该书从回应自然秩序本身并不道德这一日益形成的共识（该共识源于“恶”的问题）出发，介绍中国早期哲学史。他的最新著作为Doing What You Really Want: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mengzi（Oxford, 2022）。他与李晨阳（Chenyang Li）合编Chinese Metaphysics and Its Problems（Cambridge, 2015）。他早先接受的哲学训练专注于欧洲哲学史尤其是现代早期哲学史方面，已出版两本关于莱布尼茨哲学的著作：Leibniz: A Guide for the Perplexed（Bloomsbury, 2007）、Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light（Cambridge, 2004；中译本《互照：莱布尼茨与中国》北京大学出版社2013年）。他的著作已被翻译成葡萄牙文、中文和日文。他的主要教学与研究兴趣包括中国古代哲学、早期现代欧洲哲学以及在比较或跨文化背景下的哲学。他在过去几年尤其关注中国最近发掘的公元前300年左右出土文献的哲学意义。

●Ting-mien Lee（李庭綿） Assistant Professor

Ting-mien Lee (李庭綿) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Macau. Her main research interest lies in the area of classical Chinese philosophy, with a specific focus on inter-state relational ethics and its relevance to today's international relations and global order. She holds a PhD in Chinese Studies from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Her dissertation focused on the meaning of Ru-Mo 儒墨 in Early Chinese Texts. In her publications, Lee often draws inspirations from classical Chinese philosophy to address contemporary issues of international relations and global order. She has recently published a new edited volume entitled The Many Lives of Yang Zhu with Carine Defoort in 2022. Additionally, she has published several articles on key issues in contemporary political philosophy in the PRC, featured in journals such as the China Review, Ethical Perspectives, and Asian Philosophy.

李庭綿 助理教授

李庭绵，澳门大学哲学与宗教学系助理教授。台湾大学中国文学学士、比利时鲁汶大学哲学硕士、比利时鲁汶大学汉学博士。其研究成果发表于《现代哲学》，Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy，Religions，Ethical Perspectives，Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy，Contemporary Chinese Thought，Philosophical Forum，Oriens Extremus等海内外期刊。曾主持科研项目有“A Strategic Reading of Classical Chinese Philosophy从兵书中的战略思维解读先秦诸子哲学”；现主持科研项目为“Confucian Just War Theory: The Case of Punishment Theory儒学的义战理论：以惩罚理论为中心的讨论”。主要研究领域为古代墨学及其当代价值，相关作品包括 “Interstate Relational Ethics: Mengzi and Later Mohists in Dialogue” (Religions) 与 “Can Confucianism Morally Justify the Just Hierarchies? Mohism as An Alternative Solution” (Ethical Perspectives) 等，意在阐明墨学的国际关系理论及其当代价值。

●Benoît Vermander（魏明德） Professor

Benoît Vermander is professor of religious science at Fudan University (Shanghai) where he also teaches the hermeneutic of Chinese Classics. He heads the Xu Guangqi Dialogue Institute in the same university. Among his recent publications: The Encounter of Chinese and Western Philosophies, a Critique (De Gruyter, 2023); Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China (Routledge, 2024); Empty Yet Inexhaustible. Reading the Daodejing with Others (Chukasudo, 2024).

Benoît Vermander（魏明德） 教授

Benoît Vermander（魏明德），复旦大学哲学学院宗教学系教授、博士生导师，主要讲授中国经典诠释学。兼任复旦大学徐光启-利玛窦文明对话研究中心主任。他近期出版的著作包括：The Encounter of Chinese and Western Philosophies, a Critique (De Gruyter, 2023)，Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China (Routledge, 2024)，Empty Yet Inexhaustible. Reading the Daodejing with Others (Chukasudo, 2024).

●Qinghua Cai（才清华） Associate Professor

Qinghua Cai (才清华) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fudan University. She holds an M.Phil and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on pre-Qin Daoism and the philosophy of the Wei and Jin dynasties (commonly known as Wei-Jin Xuanxue). Her work centers on the philosophy of language in Chinese thought, specifically examining linguistic dimensions in the works of Laozi and Zhuangzi. Recently, she has been investigating how the writing styles of Laozi and Zhuangzi reflect divergences in their philosophical frameworks. Another area of her current research explores the reception of Daoist philosophy in the English world, particularly how the Daodejing has been translated, adapted, and interpreted within English-language scholarship. She is the author of The Reinterpretation of the Relationship between Language and Thought in the Wei-Jin Dynasties (2013). Her other journal publications mainly discuss the interpretation of Chinese philosophy from a contemporary perspective.

才清华 副教授

才清华，复旦大学哲学学院副教授，硕士生导师，中国哲学教研室副主任。获评上海市浦江人才、首届“士恒青年学者”。主要研究领域包括：先秦道家、魏晋玄学；中国哲学中的语言哲学问题；英语世界的道家哲学研究；中国哲学方法论与比较哲学。代表性作品包括：《言意之辨与语言哲学的基本问题——对魏晋言意之辨的再诠释》《王弼对〈老子〉的理论抽绎》《王弼〈周易略例〉中的言意观》等。

● Yong Huang（黄勇） Professor

Yong Huang（黄勇）, Ph.D in Philosophy (Fudan University) and Th.D in Religious Studies (Harvard University), had taught at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania since 1996 before he moved to the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013. With interest in both philosophy and religious studies and familiar with both Western and Chinese traditions, his research focus has been on moral (both ethical and political) issues from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. He has been the chief editor of the journal, Dao: A Journal of Comparative philosophy. since the very beginning. Huang is also the founding editor of the first companion series exclusively focused on Chinese philosophy, Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy, also published by Springer. Recently, he has also launched a book series, Fudan Studies in Encountering Chinese Philosophy, published by Bloomsbury and (together with Professor WANG Qingjie) a book series in Chinese, Philosophy from Hong Kong (香江哲学), published by Oriental Publishing Center (东方出版中心) in Shanghai. In addition, he sits over 30 editorial boards of scholarly journals and book series in English and Chinese. Huang has published extensively in the area of Chinese and comparative philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion, including 6 edited or co-edited volumes in English, five books in Chinese, and three monographs in English, in addition to over 100 journal articles and book chapters each in Chinese and English.

黄勇 教授

黄勇，复旦大学哲学博士，哈佛大学神学博士。曾长期任教于美国宾州库兹城大学哲学系，自2013年起转任香港中文大学哲学系教授。曾兼任美国宗教学会儒学传统组共同主任，哥伦比亚大学宋明儒学讨论班共同主任，北美中国哲学家协会主席等。主要研究领域为中国哲学、中西比较哲学、伦理学、政治哲学和宗教哲学。黄勇教授创办并主编英文学术刊物Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy（Springer）和学术丛书Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy (Springer)，并筹备一套新的英文丛书Encountering Chinese Philosophy (Bloomsbury)。除在有关学术刊物和文集中发表中英文学术论文各八十余篇外，出版英文专著Religious Goodness and Political Rightness: Beyond the Liberal-Communitarian Debate (Harvard Theological Studies 49), Confucius: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury) 和Why Be Moral: Learning from the Neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers (SUNY) 以及中文著作《全球化时代的伦理》，《全球化时代的宗教》和《全球化时代的政治》（台湾大学出版中心）。正完成英文书稿Ethics of Difference: Learning from the Daoist Zhuangzi和Knowing-to: The Contemporary Significance of Wang Yangming’s Moral Philosophy两本。

Highly motivated senior undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty members.

国内外在读本科高年级学生、硕士研究生、博士研究生、在站博士后以及从事相关学术研究的青年学者。

Around 100 participants

100人左右

This summer school does not charge any tuition or fees. The School of Philosophy will offer accommodation for 30 students (double occupancy). Students from overseas and from a place in China outside of Shanghai will be given priority.

暑期学校免收学费。哲学学院将为入选本次暑期学校的30名学员提供活动期间的住宿支持（海外学生与上海外学生优先，两人合住一间），其余费用自理。

1. Photo or scanned file of applicant’s ID card/Passport and student ID card of current university

本人有效身份证件及学生证正面照片或扫描件

2. Applicant’s CV including research interests, current and previous higher-ed institution, etc.

本人简历1份，包含本人基本信息、目前身份及所在高校院系、研究方向、过往学习经历等

3. Transcripts of higher-education

本人学习成绩单1份

4. A sample of scholarly paper

本人代表性学术论文1篇

5. A recommendation letter

1封专家推荐信

Please send all your application materials to the following email address:

fdphilo_summer@163.com. 

The subject of the email has to be: “Name + Home Institution + Application 2025”

请将上述申请材料电子版发送至以下邮箱：fdphilo_summer@163.com。邮件主题请按照“姓名+所在高校+申请暑校2025”命名。

In the meantime, for applicants with a foreign passport: Please sign up and log in with the application system of the International Students Office of Fudan University. The link is:

 https://istudent.fudan.edu.cn/apply

1. Register a new account. The applicant will receive an email of activation. Please use the supported browsers to apply.

2. After the new account is activated, please log in, and find “2025 Fudan International Summer School of Philosophy-Early Chinese Philosophy in Comparative and Contemporary Perspectives”. Then input the program code：308724. We will follow up by mail with the admitted international students.

Deadline: June 20, 2025 Beijing time.

同时，请所有申请的中国籍学生，使用Chrome浏览器，登录我校通用注册报名平台http://register.fudan.edu.cn/，搜索“2025研究生国际暑期学校项目-比较与当代视野下的早期中国哲学-哲学学院”项目，完成报名。入选结果将以邮件形式通知到相关申请人。

Application Deadline: June 20, 2025

报名截止时间：2025年6月20日

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