Huaiyu (Henry) Wang

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

317 Terrell Hall
Campus Box 111
478-445-1485
huaiyu.wang@gcsu.edu

Fields:

Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Moral and Political Philosophy

Publications:

“Ren and Gantong: Openness of Heart and the Root of Confucianism,” forthcoming in Philosophy East and West 63:2 (April 2013).

“Piety and Individuality through a Convoluted Path of Rightness: Exploring the Confucian Art of Moral Discretion via the Analects 13.18,” forthcoming in Asian Philosophy 21:4 (November 2011)

“What is the Matter with Conscience: A Confucian Critique of Modern Imperialism,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy Vol. X No. 2 (April 2011). 209-29.

“The Way of Heart: Mencius’ Understanding of Justice,” Philosophy East and West, Vol. 59, No. 3 (July 2009), 317-63.

“Care and Reverence: Exploring the Origin of Early Confucian Thinking,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Vol. 35, issue 1 (March 2008,), 139-157.

 “Conscience and the Aporia of Being and Time,” Research in Phenomenology 37 (2007), 357-384.

“On Ge Wu: Recovering the Way of the Great Learning,” Philosophy East and West, Volume 57, Number 2 (April 2007), 204-226.

Translated into Chinese and reprinted in Fang Xudong 方旭東Ed., Moral Philosophy and the Confucian Tradition 道德哲學與儒家傳統 (Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2010), 298-318.  

“Mesotēs, Energeia, Alētheia: Discovering an Ariadne’s Thread through Aristotle’s Natural and Moral Philosophy,” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 11, Issue 2 (2007), 409-420.

“Rethinking the Validity and Significance of Final Causation: from the Aristotelian to the Peircian Teleology,” Transaction of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. XLI, No. 3 (Summer 2005), 603-25

Current Projects:

“A Genealogical Study of De: Poetical Correspondence of Sky, Earth, and Human Beings in the Early Chinese Virtuous Rule of Benefaction,” under consideration at Philosophy East and West.

Research paper on the meanings of xiao (filial devotion) and the autonomy of the Confucian self.

Researches on the early Chinese concepts of the soul

Translation project for the “Great Treatise” of the Yijing/Book of Changes

Classes Taught:

Myth, Magic & Psychoanalysis
Democracy and Identity: East and West
Asian Philosophy
Language and Nature in 20^th Philosophy
Philosophy of Religion
Conscience and Heart: Crossing Perspective
Psychoanalysis, Literary Heroes and 20^th Century Philosophy
Ethics and Society (IDST)

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Huaiyu Wang, Assistant Professor of Philosophy