The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies

Sor-hoon Tan is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore.

List of Contributors

Introduction: Why Methodology Matters in Chinese Philosophy, Sor-hoon Tan

Part I: Philosophizing with Traditional Chinese Texts

1. Philosophizing with Canonical Chinese Texts: Seeking an Interpretive Context, Roger T. Ames

2. Methodological Reflections on the Study of Chinese Thought, Kwong-loi Shun

3. On What It Means to ‘Let a Text Speak for Itself?’, Ronnie Littlejohn

4. Academic Silos, or, What I Wish Philosophers Know about History, Michael Nylan

5. Contextualization and De-contextualization: Studies of Chinese Philosophy from a Trans-cultural Context, Ming-Huei Lee

Part II: Methods from Practice

6. Kungfu Method in the Analects and Its Significance Beyond, Peimin Ni

7. Methodological Inspirations from Teaching Chinese Philosophy, Sarah Mattice

8. Confucianism and Pragmatist Methods: Keeping Faith with the Confucian Moral Mission, Sor-hoon Tan

Part III: Adapting Borrowed Methodologies

9. Chinese Metaphysics Methodology in a Cross-Cultural Context, Franklin Perkins

10. On Constructive-Engagement Strategy in Studies of Chinese Philosophy, Bo Mou

11. Issues and Methods of Analytic Philosophy in Chinese Philosophy, Yiu-ming Fung

12. Travelling Around the Threshold: Continental Philosophy and the Comparative Project, David Jones

13. Chinese Bodies in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics: Methodologies and Practices, Eva K.W. Man

Part IV: Critiques and future possibilities

14. Methods from Within the Chinese Tradition,Leigh Jenco

15. Methodology in Chinese-Indian Comparative Philosophy, Alexus McLeod

16. Daoism, Naturalism, and Chinese Culture, Lisa Raphals

17. Interdisciplinary Methods in Chinese Philosophy: Comparative Philosophy and the Case Example of Mind-Body Holism, Edward Slingerland

18. Chinese Philosophy as Experimental Philosophy, Hagop Sarkissian and Ryan Nichols

Index