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Curriculum Vitae
Yang Xiao
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy Department
Kenyon College
Gambier, OH 43022
Email:
Phone: (740) 427-5287
Education
Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, 1999.
Advisor: Richard Bernstein. Committee: Bernard Williams, Christoph Menke, and Tu Wei-ming.
Visiting Student, Wolfson College, Oxford University, 1989. Advisor: Peter Strawson.
MA, Department of Philosophy, Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1987.
BA, Department of Physics, Wuhan University, China, 1984.
Fields of Specialization
Ethics and moral psychology.
Fields of Competence
Chinese philosophy, philosophy of language, and political philosophy.
Faculty Appointments
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Kenyon College, current.
Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 2002-03.
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Middlebury College, 2000-02.
Post-doctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, 1999-2000.
Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1988-92.
Honors and Grants
Kenyon Summer Stipend, Kenyon College, 2005.
Faculty Development Funds, Kenyon College, 2005.
An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University 2002-03.
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley, 1999-2000.
Sugihara Dissertation Fellowship, New School University, 1997.
Graduate Student Award, American Philosophical Association, 1996.
New School Prize Fellowship, Graduate Faculty, New School University, 1993-96.
The Social Science Foundation Fellowship for Young Scholars, China., 1991-92.
Courses Taught
Fall 2005
Practical Issues in Ethics.
Introduction to Ethics.
Independent Study: Philosophy and Children.
Independent Study: The Kyoto School and the Self-Overcoming of Nihilism.
Spring 2005
Introduction to Ethics.
Early Chinese Philosophy.
Seminar on Contemporary Ethics.
Independent Study: Speech Act Theory.
Fall 2004
Practical Issues in Ethics.
Introduction to Philosophy.
Independent Study: Wittgenstein.
Independent Study: Foundation of Bioethics.
Independent Study: Theories of Liberty.
Independent Study: A New English Translation of the First Two Chapters of the Zhuangzi.
Spring 2004
Practical Issues in Ethics.
Seminar on Contemporary Ethics.
Junior Honors Seminar: Introduction to Moral Psychology through Literature.
Fall 2003
Introduction to Philosophy.
Introduction to Ethics.
Publications: Articles and Edited Volumes
Special Issue on Moral Psychology in Early Chinese Philosophy
Guest Editor, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Summer 2006.
“How Confucius Does Things with Words: Two Paradigms of Hermeneutic Practice in the Analects and Its Exegeses”
Journal of Asian Studies, 2006.
“Reading the Analects with Davidson: Mood and Force in Early Chinese Communicative Practice”
Davidson’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement, Brill Publishing, 2006.
“The Pragmatic Turn: Understanding Communicative Practice in Early China”
Oriens Extremus, Spring 2006.
“When Philosophy of Action Meets Ethics: The Invention of the Will in Confucius and Mencius”
Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Summer 2006.
“Rediscovering Republicanism in China”
Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 34, no. 3, Spring 2003.
Special Issue on Political Philosophy and Political Reform
Co-Editor with Nicholas Bunnin of Oxford University, Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 34, no. 3, Spring 2003.
“Modernity as Differentiation: Liang Qichao’s Social and Political Philosophy”
Blackwell Guides to Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, ed. Chung-ying Cheng and Nicholas Bunnin, Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
“Trying to Do Justice to the Concept of Justice in Confucian Ethics”
Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 24 (1997), 1997.
“Rawls's Theory of Civil Disobedience and Its Chinese Version”
Zhexue Pinglun (Chinese Philosophical Review), in Chinese, Vol.1, No.1, 1993.
“The Law of Causality, Historicism, and Individual Autonomy”
Xueren (The Scholars), in Chinese, No.2, 1990.
Publications: Book Reviews
Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Menzi, ed. Xiusheng Liu and Philip J. Ivanhoe, Hackett Publishing, 2002
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2005 (forthcoming).
Chinese Philosophy in an Age of Globalization, ed. Robin R. Wang, SUNY Press, 2004
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, October 2004.
Human Rights and Chinese Thought, by Stephen Angle, Cambridge University Press, 2002
Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 54, No. 215, April 2004.
Academic Services
Book Review Editor, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 2005-.
Member of the Editorial Board, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 2001-.
Organizer of the conference “Philosophy as a Way of Life: Moral Psychology in Early Chinese Philosophy,” Harvard University, May 24-5, 2003.
Member of Editorial Board, Lunzheng (Arguments), an independent philosophy journal published in China, 1999-2003.
Founding Editor and Editor-in-chief of Zhexue Pinglun (Chinese Philosophical Review), the first independent philosophy journal in China since 1949, 1991-93.
Collegiate Services
College Senate, 2005-.
Search Committee, Sociology Department, Fall 2005.
Faculty Panel, New Faculty Orientation, Fall 2005.
Faculty Panel, “Life on the Hill,” Freshman Orientation, Fall 2005.
Participant, "The Culture of Kenyon" workgroup (about alcohol and drug use at Kenyon), 2005.
Faculty Forum, Board of Campus Ministry, Fall 2005.
Recruiting prospective students for the Admission Office, The Faculty LINKS program, 2005.
Faculty Interviewer, Merit Scholarship Program, 2005.
Faculty participant, Food for Thought Program, 2005.
Co-organizer of the campus visit of the writer Ha Jin, Faculty Lectureship, 2005.
Coordinator of the Philosophy Department Senior Exercise, 2004-05.
Faculty advisor of the student philosophy club, the Symposium, 2003-05.
Search Committee, Philosophy Department, 2004-05.
Search Committee, Modern Languages Department, 2004-05.
Founding faculty advisor of the Kenyon Bioethics Club, 2004-.
Faculty advisor of the Kenyon Archon Society, 2005-.
Faculty advisor of the Kenyon Go Club, 2004-.
Faculty advisor of the Kenyon Soccer Club, 2004-.
Co-organizer of the campus visit of the Chinese poet Bei Dao, 2004.
Organizer of the Philosophy Department Speaker Series (John Lysaker, Spring 2004, and A. P. Martinich, Fall 2004).
Interviewer for Minority Scholarship applicants for the Admission Office, 2004.
Recruiting prospective students for the Admission Office, The Faculty LINKS program, 2004.
Participant at the Philosophy Table and the Chinese Table, 2003-.
Presentations
Invited Participant
Liberty Fund colloquium “Liberty and Virtue in the Stoic Tradition,” San Francisco, November 2-6, 2005 (forthcoming).
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Invited Speaker, “Neo-Confucianism and Global Philosophy Conference,” Wesleyan University, February 24-25, 2006 (forthcoming).
“The Ethics of War in Early China”
Invited Speaker, “War and Peace – East and West,” Académie du Midi, Alet-les-Bains, France, June 5-9, 2006 (forthcoming).
“A Confucian Theory of Action”
Invited Speaker, “Topics in Comparative Ancient Philosophy: Greek and Chinese,” Part II of a two-part symposium, University of Oxford, June 22-24, 2006 (forthcoming).
“The Pragmatic Turn: Understanding Communicative Practice in Early China”
Invited Speaker, “Argument and Persuasion in Ancient Chinese Texts,” Part I of a two-part symposium, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, June 9 – 11, 2005.
“The Power of Virtue (De): A Dialogue among Shang Yang, Confucius, and Laozi”
Invited Speaker, the Ninth East-West Philosophers’ Conference, “Educations and Their Purposes: A Philosophical Dialogue among Cultures,” University of Hawaii, May 29- June 11, 2005.
“When Philosophy of Action Meets Ethics: The Invention of the Will in Confucius and Mencius”
Kenyon Faculty Seminar, Kenyon College, January 26, 2005.
“Historicism and Political Thought”
Invited Speaker, “The Impact of Liberalism on Contemporary Chinese Thought: Thinking about Chinese Thinking in a Global Context,” Institute of Asian Research and Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, September 17-18, 2004.
“Reading the Analects with Davidson”
“Donald Davidson and Chinese Philosophy,” an international conference, Beijing, June 8-9, 2004.
“How Confucius Does Things with Words”
Invited Speaker, Midwest Conference in East Asian Thought, DePaul University, Chicago, April 15-7, 2004.
“The Hermeneutic Implications of Davidson’s Theory of Meaning”
Invited Speaker, Department of Philosophy Speaker Series, McMaster University, Canada, February 13, 2004.
Invited Participant
Liberty Fund Colloquium, “Universal Rights and Conflicts of Cultures,” Denver, Colorado, June 12-15, 2003.
“Practicing Moral Psychology in Early China”
Organizer and Speaker, “Philosophy as a Way of Life: Moral Psychology in Early Chinese Philosophy,” Harvard University, May 24-5, 2003.
“How Confucius Does Things with Words: Towards an Appropriation of Hermeneutic Practice in Jingxue”
Invited Speaker, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, November 11, 2002.
“Did Ricci Invented ‘Confucianism’? Confucius, Mencius and Epictetus on Happiness and Luck”
American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division Annual Meeting, December 28, 2002.
“The Tension between Truth and History in Liang Qichao”
Invited Speaker, Institute for Chinese Studies, Oxford University, June 8, 2002.
“The Rise of Historicism in Chinese Political Philosophy”
Invited Speaker, Centre for Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St Andrews, Scotland, June 22, 2002.
“The Genealogy of Religious Pluralism: Truthfulness and Cultural Encounters”
Invited Speaker, Philosophy Department, New School University, New York, March 10, 2002.
“Historical Distance and Human Rights”
Society of Philosophy of History, APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, March 31, 2002.
“How Not to Be Too Anxious About Pluralism”
Faculty Lecture Series, Middlebury College, February 28, 2002.
“Xunzi as Philosopher of History”
Invited Speaker, “Virtue, Nature, and Moral Agency in Xunzi,” a conference organized by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, March 10, 2002.
“The Invention of the Will (and New Morals) in Early Confucianism”
Invited speaker, Philosophy Department and the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University, October 19, 2000.
"Historical Distance: Human Rights and Styles of Philosophizing"
Invited Speaker, Philosophy Department, New School for Social Research, May 11, 2000.
"Discovering History in China: Liang Qichao and the Historian's Virtue of Truthfulness"
Invited Speaker, 2000-2001 Joint Regional Seminar "History and Memory in East Asia,” Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, April 28, 2000.
“The Concept of Human Being in Confucianism”
Invited Speaker, the symposium “The Philosophical Significance of Early Confucian Thought,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 6, 2000.
"Between Past and Future: Religion and Religious Conflicts in China"
Invited Speaker, Scott Symposium, Middlebury College, January 10, 2000.
"Liang Qichao on Traditions, Values and Rights"
APA Eastern Division Meeting, Boston, December 30, 1999.
"Historical Distance and Human Rights: How Levenson Can Help Us Not to Be Too Anxious About Relativism"
China Seminar, UC Berkeley, December 7, 1999.
“Voluntary Acts and Valuation: Mencius’s Ideal-bearing Concept of the Self”
APA Pacific Division Meeting, Berkeley, April 2, 1999.
“Cultural Provincialism: Is Chinese Philosophy Radically Different?”
Invited Speaker, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, February 4, 1999.
“After Ten Years: Reflections on the 1989 Chinese Student Movement”
Invited Speaker, Department of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College, February 4; New School
for Social Research, April 21, 1999.
“Pierre Bourdieu and Ian Hacking on Classification”
Roundtable, “Gender and Race in Recent Social Theory,” the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 12, 1998.
“Action and Language: Wittgenstein’s Minimalist and Holist Philosophy of Mind”
Berkeley-Stanford Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, Berkeley, May 2, 1998.
“Three Roads towards the Thin Concept of the Will: Augustine, Confucius and Mencius”
Invited Speaker, Department of Eastern Asian Languages, Stanford University, April 22, 1998.
“Geometry and Tai Chen’s Critique of Neo-Confucian Ethics”
Discussant, “Chinese Philosophy and Science,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, Los Angeles, March 25, 1998.
“How Confucius Does Things With Words: Fingarette’s and MacIntyre’s (Mis)reading of the Analects”
APA Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, December 29, 1997.
“The Unity of the Virtues: Aristotle and Confucius”
APA Pacific Division Meeting, Berkeley, March 1997.
“Du Bois on The Meanings of Race”
Symposium on Identity and Race, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Atlanta, December 28, 1996.
“The Flying Arrow in Zeno and the Chinese School of Logicians”
Discussant, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Atlanta, December 28, 1996.
“The Embodied Justice: A Confucian Perspective”
APA Eastern Division Meeting, Atlanta, December 28, 1996.
"Du Bois on the Uses and Disadvantages of Races"
Colloquium on Affirmative Action and Race, APA Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle, April 4, 1996.
"Liberty and the Art of Association in Social Movements: A Reflection on the 1989 Chinese Student Movement”
APA Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle, April 6, 1996.
"Emotion and the Weakness of the Will," and "Is Confucius a Pragmatist?"
Discussant, APA Eastern Division Meeting, New York, December 29, 1995.
“Identity, Necessity and Realism”
International conference on “Philosophy of Sciences: Realism and Anti-realism,” Beijing, June 1992.
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