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About this book
This book explains a distinctive pluralist account of truth, jointly-rooted perspectivism ('JRP' for short). This explanation unifies various representative while philosophically interesting truth-concern approaches in early Chinese philosophy on the basis of people's pre-theoretic "way-things-are-capturing" understanding of truth. It explains how JRP provides effective interpretative resources to identify and explain one unifying line that runs through those distinct truth-concern approaches and how they can thus talk with and complement each other and contribute to the contemporary study of the issue of truth. In so doing, the book also engages with some distinct treatments in the modern study of Chinese philosophy. Through testing its explanatory power in effectively interpreting those representative truth-concern approaches in the Yi-Jing philosophy, Gongsun Long's philosophy, Later Mohist philosophy, classical Confucianism and classical Daoism, JRP is also further justified and strengthened. Mou defends JRP as an original unifying pluralist account in the context of cross-tradition philosophical engagement, which can also effectively engage with other accounts of truth (including other types of pluralist accounts) in contemporary philosophy. The purpose of this book is dual: (1) it is to enhance our understanding and treatment of the truth concern as one strategic foundation of various movements of thought in classical Chinese philosophy that are intended to capture "how things are"; (2) on the other hand, it is to explore how the relevant resources in Chinese philosophy can contribute to the contemporary exploration of the philosophical issue of truth in philosophically interesting and engaging way.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Semantic-Truth Approaches in Chinese Philosophy
- Semantic-Truth Approaches in Chinese Philosophy: A Unifying Pluralist Account
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Jointly Rooted Perspectivism
- 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
- Appendix 1
- Note on Transcription and Guide to Pronunciation
- Appendix 2
- A Sample Perspective Elaboration of Pretheoretic Understanding of Truth
- Appendix 3
- A Brief Characterization of Traditional Truth-Bearer Candidates with Distinct Linguistic-Expression Meanings
- Appendix 4
- An Expanded Predicate Logic Account with Enhanced Identity Sign and Collective-Generic Operator1
- Appendix 5
- An Extended Version of Jointly Rooted Perspectivist Theory
- References
- Index of Names and Subjects
- About the Author