Lexington Books
Pages: 388
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-6041-2 • Hardback • November 2018 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
978-1-4985-6042-9 • eBook • November 2018 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Bo Mou is professor of philosophy at San Jose State University.
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Jointly-Rooted Perspectivism: Normative Basis, Background, Methodology and Structure
Chapter 2: Truth-Concern Approach in Yi-Jing Philosophy
Chapter 3: Truth-Concern Approach in Gongsun Long’s Philosophy
Chapter 4: Truth-Concern Approach in Later Mohism
Chapter 5: Truth-Concern Approaches in Classical Confucianism
Chapter 6: Truth-Concern Approaches in Classical Daoism
Chapter 7: Jointly-Rooted Perspectivism as a Unifying Pluralist Account
Appendixes
References
Index
About the Author
Bo Mou has a rare combination of skills. He is thoroughly familiar with contemporary semantic theory and the formal logic that lies behind it, and he has a scholarly background in traditional Chinese philosophy. Moreover, he knows how to bring these two together. This book is sure to stimulate discussion not only about the interpretation of Chinese philosophy but also on what is universal and what is culture specific in the ways we think and talk.
— Adam Morton, University of British Columbia
The culmination of decades of research and reflection, this important book accomplishes three things at once. First, it reorients scholarly attention toward the importance in Chinese philosophy of the pre-theoretic concern to capture the way things are, which Dr. Mou calls a “truth concern.” Second, the book shows how various philosophical elaborations in early China of this pre-theoretical concern are well-explained as contributing to a distinctive and attractive pluralist account of truth. Finally, by taking these two points together we are treated to a model of constructive, cross-cultural philosophical engagement. Students of Chinese philosophy and philosophers interested in the concept of truth both have much to gain from this impressive volume.
— Stephen C. Angle, Wesleyan University