COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
An International Journal of Constructive Engagement of Distinct Approaches toward World Philosophy
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COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
VOL 17 NO 1 (January 2026 Issue)
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DRAGO, Antonino:
“Challenging the Double-Negation Principle: An Analysis of Strategic Theories of Sun Zi, Carnot, and Clausewitz through Intuitionist Logic” (1-16)
HAMID, Danish:
“The Coherence of Navayāna Pragmatism: Ambedkar
and the Pragmatist Reconstruction of Buddhist Philosophy” (17-40)
KALMAN, Ian:
“Father Knows Best? Not Here: Metaphors of Kinship
and Kingship in Haudenosaunee, Aristotelian, and Confucian Political Thought” (41-57)
LIU, Xiaoqiao:
“A Critique of Ziporyn’s Interpretation of Early Chinese Thought: from the Constructive-Engagement Vantage Point” (58-72)
MAAREFVAND, Mohammadjavad:
“A Cross-System Analysis of Structural Commensurability Between Axiomatic Foundations
of Set Theory (ZFC) and the Principles of Transcendent Wisdom (73-89)
SHITTA-BEY, Olanrewaju:
“A Constructive-Engaging Analysis of Descarrtes (European) and Oyeshile (African) on Personhood (90-102)
WANG, Kun:
“How can Zhu Xi’s Resources Contribute to the Feminist Progressive Project? A Reflection on the Study of Zhu Xi’s Theory of Kun Way-Making (103-123)
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COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
VOL 16 NO 2 (July/August 2025 Issue)
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CHENG, Juanjuan & SANDAMADULLE:
“Sumanasara / How Theravāda Buddhism Enriches the Language of Thought Hypothesis: Beyond Syntax (1-21)
JAYESH, A. K.:
“Is the Mahāyāna Buddhist Doctrine of Mutual Dependence a Case of Begging the Question?” (22-41)
MIRANDA, Nuno:
“Reassessing the Deontological Undercurrents in Mo Zi’s Ethical Thought” (42-58
MOSCARITOLO PALACIO, Alessandro R.:
“A Constructive Engagement between Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy and Latin American & Latine Liberatory Philosophy” (59-91)
PODESTÀ, Federico:
“The Conventional Emptiness of Human Beings: Reviewing Archer’s Theory of Agency through Nagarjuna’s Looking Glass (92-113)
SHI, Yanrong:
“Moral and Ethical Nature in Confucian Liang-Zhi and
Islamic Fitra: Comparative Perspectives on Innate Morality” (114-131)
SHOOK, John R.:
“A Place for Ancient Philosophy in Axial Age Historiography” (132-151)
RECENT WORK
RAJAN, Kumar / Book Review on Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology (edited by Anand Jayprakash Vaidya and Duško Prelević) (152-160)
WANG, Lin / Book Review on The Worlds of Classical Chinese Aesthetics (by Paul R. Goldin) (161-166)
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COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
VOL 16 NO 1 (January 2025 Issue)
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ALWOOD, Andrew
“Epicurus and the Buddha on Desire” (1-24)
GANGMEI, Luthonliu & KHANGAMCHA, P. Milan
“ The Methodological Problems of Incorporating Indigenous Philosophy in Collaborative Research” (25-44)
LIU, Yuedi
“A Constructive Dialogue between Confucianism and Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson” (45-57)
OMOGE, Michael
“Epistemic Injustices in Philosophical Practice: African and Western” (58-76)
PANDA, Barada Laxmi
“Walking through the Aristotelian Lane: Amartya Sen on Rational Choice” (77-91)
VERMA, Ajay Kurma
“Is Buddhist View of Mental States in Consonance with the Foundational Tenets of their System?: Investigating Nyāya and Buddhist Debate on Perception in Jayanta Bhatta’s Nyāyamanjari” (92-108)
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COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
VOL 15 NO 2 (July/August 2024 Issue)
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MOU, Bo / EDITOR’s Words
On Constructive-Engagement Character of Comparative Studies
of Chinese Philosophy toward World Philosophy—In View of
ISCWP’s Two-Decade Development (1-19)
SPECIAL ISSUE
CELEBRATING THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE STUDIES
OF CHINESE AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHY
THEME
COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY
TOWARD WORLD PHILOSOPHY
SUN, Wei / Preface 20
CHEN, Cuiting / Righteousness Versus Yi: Two Senses of Justice (21-42)
CHEUNG, Wai Lok / A Realist Daoism:
Reading the Zhuang-Zi with Lao Zi’s Daoist Realism (43-65)
DAI, Yuanfang / Chinese Feminist Philosophy: Philosophizing
Chinese Feminism in Transcultural Contexts (66-87)
DING, Xiaojun, YANG, Chao, HARTELOH, Peter, and YU, Feng /
From Contemplation to Counseling: Exploring Philosophical Practice
by Constructive-Engagement Strategy of Comparative Philosophy (88-112)
JING, Qi / Confucianism Embodied: An “Interdisciplinary” Approach to
Comparative Political Theory (113-138)
LUO, Shirong / A New Look at the Debate Between Confucian Soft-Power
and Legalist Hard-Power Statecrafts and Its Contemporary Significance (139-157)
MASON, Joshua / Global Metaphors for Wisdom:
Philosophy as a Species of the Genus Hao-Xue (158-173)
ZHOU, Hongyin & CHEN, Yuqi / Constructive Engagement Between
Ecological Thoughts of Karl Marx and Lao Zi (174-192)
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COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
VOL 15 NO 1 (January 2024 Issue)
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BURGIN, Gregory / The Hand of Thought: A Cross-Tradition Examination of Kosho Uchiyama and Martin Heidegger (1-18)
CHRONOPOULOU, Eleni / Heraclitus and the Rig Veda:
A Cross-Tradition Engaging Examination (19-34)
CONNOLLY, Timothy / The Social Relevance of Comparative Philosophy (35-45)
HSU, Chuan Chih, CALDERÓN, Antonio & SU, Chia Shih /
Intersecting Perspectives: A Comparative Dialogue on Respect in Confucian and Western Philosophies (46-66)
JUNGBAUER, Tyler J. /
A Madhyamaka Critique of Jaegwon Kim's Supervenience Argument (67-96)
MERAWI, Fasil /
Golden Rule Ethics and Complementary Learning Process with the Other: from Confucius’ and Christian Approaches to Hatatas’ Approach (97-114)
PANDIT, Prasasti & KRIEGER, William /
A Comparative Study of Emotion in Indian and Western Philosophy (115-134)
TING, Angel /
Xun Zi on Desiring to be Good:
Desire as the Necessary Condition for the Transformation of Nature (135-156)
RECENT WORK
STROMBACK, Dennis /
Book Review on Kyoto School Philosophy in Comparative Perspective:
Ideology, Ontology, Modernity (by Bernard Stevens) (157-162)
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COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
VOL 14 NO 2 (July 2023 Issue)
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DIVINO, Federico /
Dualism and Psychosemantics: Holography and Pansematism in Early Buddhist Philosophy(1-40)
GHOSH, Anirban & CHAKRABARTI, Malabika /
Analyzing Nietzsche andDarwin in Search of Origin of Morality: The Evolving Perspective (41-69)
MIHALI, Andreea / Desc(ART) or the 21st Century Cartesian Meditator (70-104)
RAVEH, Daniel / No Place Like Home? A Dialogical Journey with Shlomo Biderman (105-118)
SANCHEZ-PEREZ, Jorge / The Dangers of Re-colonization: Possible Boundaries Between Latin American Philosophy and Indigenous Philosophy from Latin America (119-133)
TANG, Yun /
Daoist Freedom, Psychological Hygiene, and Social Criticism (134-150)
WILLIAMS, John R. /
Zhuang Zi and the “Greatest Joyousness”: Wang Fuzhi’s Approach (151-163)
WONG, Soo Lam /
Causality, Agency, and Moral Responsibility in Nikaya Buddhism (164-182)
RECENT WORK
BROWN, Karin /
Book Review on Creating a Shared Morality: The Feasibility of Ethical Constructivism (by Heather Salazar) (183-190)
KAHTERAN, Nevad /
Book Review on Methods, Methodologies, and Perspectives in the Humanities and Social Sciences: With Particular Reference to Islamic Studies - A Critical Rationalist Interpretation (by Ali Paya) (191-195)
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COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
VOL 14 NO 1 (January 2023 Issue)
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ANZALDÚA, Saraliza /
Mexica Monism and Daoist Ethics in the Philosophy of Gloria Anzaldúa (1-12) [PDF]
DARNAL, Abinash /
Social Justice in India: A Comparative Study of Rawls and Ambedkar (13-28) [PDF]
INGLIS, Kelly S. /
Dreaming Philosophers: The Daoist and the Metaphysician (29-52) [PDF]
KAPSNER, Andreas /
Ineffability, Emptiness and the Aesthetics of Logic (53-75) [PDF]
MULLER, Fabien /
Caducitas and Śūnyatā: A Neoplatonist Reading of Nāgārjuna (76-97) [PDF]
OJIMBA, Anthony Chimankpam /
Ubuntu’s Ontological Account in African Philosophy and its Cross-Tradition Engagement on the Issue of Being versus Becoming (98-115) [PDF]
PARK, John J. /
The Best Confucian Hybrid Meritocracy-Democracy for Liberal Democracies (116-132) [PDF]
SHIRVANI, Meysam /
How al-Farabi’s Interpretative Method can Engage with Aristotle’s Method in Cognition and Practical Philosophy (133-155) [PDF]
TEWARI, Animisha /
Zero, Śūnya and Pūrṇa: A Comparative Analysis (156-178) [PDF]
ZHU, Kefu /
Illuminating Chinese Aesthetics with Kant’s Account of Genius? Possibility and Difficulty (179-200) [PDF]
RECENT WORK
AZADPUR, Mohammad / Book Review on Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood and Human Flourishing (by Muhammad Faruque) (201-205) [PDF]
HIGGINS, Kathleen / Book Review on Mindfulness-based Emotion Focused Counselling (by Padmasiri de Silva) (206-210) [PDF]
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COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
VOL 13 NO 2 (July 2022 Issue)
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EDITOR’s Words (1-3) [PDF]
SPECIAL ISSUE:
COMMEMORATING THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY TOWARD WORLD PHILOSOPHY
SPECIAL THEME (1):
COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY AS A GENERAL WAY OF DOING PHILOSOPHY THROUGH CROSS-TRADITION ENGAGEMENT TOWARD WORLD PHILOSOPHY
Part I: On the Theme
MOU, BO /
Comparative Philosophy as a General Way of Doing Philosophy Through Cross-Tradition Engagement Toward World Philosophy (4- 22) [PDF]
Part II: Illustrating Cases of Cross-Tradition Engagement Worldwide
KAHTERAN, Nevad /
Doing Philosophy Comparatively in Southern Europe: Western, Mediterranean, Islamic and Other Perspectives in Engagement (23-42) [PDF]
KAIPAYIL, Joseph /
Doing Philosophy Comparatively in India: Classical Indian and Western Philosophical Traditions in Engagement (43-49) [PDF]
ZHOU, Hongyin & YE, Jiabin /
Doing Philosophy Comparatively in China: Constructive Engagement between Marxist, Western, and Chinese Traditional Philosophy (2000-2022) (50-61) [PDF]
SPECIAL THEME (2):
CROSS-TRADITION ENGAGEMENT ON PHILOSOPHY AS A WAY OF LIFE AND WORLDVIEW: PERSPECTIVES FROM AFRICAN, ASIAN, ISLAMIC, LATIN-AMERICAN AND WESTERN PERSPECTIVES
CHASE, Michael /
On Types of Certainty: from Buddhism to Islam and Beyond (62-80) [PDF]
VARGAS, Manuel /
Comparative What? Latin American Challenges to Philosophy-as-Worldview (81-93] [PDF]
WOODLING, Casey /
The Malagasy Ideal of Fihavanana and Western Ethics (94-110) [PDF]
CONSTRUCTIVE-ENGAGEMENT DIALOGUE
HOW TO LOOK AT CONTRARIES:
AN OVERALL-COMPLEMENTARITY-SEEKING ACCOUNT AND A CONFUCIAN HARMONY-SEEKING ACCOUNT
MOU, Bo /
An Overall-Complementarity-Seeking Account that Includes and Transcends Harmonious-Complementarity-Seeking Perspective: A Commentary on Chenyang Li’s Confucian Harmony-Seeking Account / Postscript (111-144) [PDF]
LI, Chenyang /
Harmony and Complementarity: A Discussion with Bo Mou (145-154) [PDF]
RECENT WORK
HIGGINS, Kathleen /
Book Review on A Grand Materialism in the New Art From China (by Mary Wiseman) (155-161) [PDF]
IN MEMORIAM
ŠARČEVIĆ, Abdulah (1929-2021) (162 -171) [PDF]
ZHANG, Xianglong (1949-2022) (172-180) [PDF]
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