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Huaiyu Wang: Curriculum Vitae
Huaiyu Wang 王懷聿
CBX 111, Philosophy and Liberal Studies
Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, GA 31061-2918 USA
Cell: (814) 441-4023 Fax: (478) 445-4009
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Web Site: https://faculty.gcsu.edu/huaiyu-wang
Area of Specialization
Asian Philosophy and Religion, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Ethics
Area of Competence
Ancient Philosophy, 19th Century Continental Philosophy, American Pragmatism (Peirce)
Education
Aug 2006: The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, U.S.A.
Ph. D. in Philosophy
Thesis: “Conscience and Ethos: Thinking across the Limits of Normativity;”
Dissertation Co-directors, Charles E. Scott & Dennis Schmidt
May 2001: Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, U.S.A.
M.B.A.
Jun 1996: Fudan University, Shanghai, China
B.A. in Economics
Academic Employment
Aug 2013 - present: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgia College & State University
Aug 2008 – Aug 2013: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgia College & State University
Aug 2006 – Aug 2008: Lecturer in Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University
Publications
Works in Progress
1. The Enchantment of Ritual and the Way of Heart (Book Project)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
1. “Caricature or Criticism: Reevaluating Two Typical Charges on ‘Confucian Oppressions,” under consideration at Dao: A Journal of Asian and Comparative Philosophy
2. “From the Principle of Rational Autonomy to the Virtuosity of Empathetic Embodiment: Reclaiming the Modern Signification of Confucian Civilization,” forthcoming at Philosophy East and West.
3. “The Totem of Dragon and the Myth of Oedipus: A Comparative Psychoanalytic Study,” forthcoming at International Communication of Chinese Culture (Springer)
4. “Between Hierarchy of Oppression and Style of Nourishment: Defending the Confucian Way of Civil Order,” forthcoming at Philosophy East and West 66.2.
5. “A Genealogical Study of De: Poetical Correspondence of Sky, Earth, and Humankind in the Early Chinese Virtuous Rule of Benefaction,” in Philosophy East and West 65:1 (Spring 2015), 81-124.
6. “Ren and Gantong: Openness of Heart and the Root of Confucianism,” Philosophy East and West 62:4 (Oct 2012), 463-504.
7. “Piety and Individuality through a Convoluted Path of Rightness: Exploring the Confucian Art of Moral Discretion via Analects 13.18,” Asian Philosophy 21:4 (November 2011), 395-418.
(Listed as one of the most read articles of the Journal as of 2014)
8. “What is the Matter with Conscience: A Confucian Critique of Modern Imperialism,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy Vol. X No. 2 (April 2011). 209-229.
9. “The Way of Heart: Mencius’ Understanding of Justice,” Philosophy East and West, Vol. 59, No. 3 (July 2009), 317-363.
10. “Care and Reverence: Exploring the Origin of Early Confucian Thinking,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Vol. 35, issue 1 (March 2008,), 139-157.
11. “Conscience and the Aporia of Being and Time,” Research in Phenomenology 37 (2007), 357-384.
12. “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.
13. “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.
14. “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
Book Reviews and Other Publications
1. “The Empathetic Cycle of Sky and Earth, Human and Divine: A New Study on the Early Confucian Rule of Benefaction,” International Conference Proceeding on Confucian Ethos From an Intercultural Perspective: The Legitimacy of Regime and the Rule of Governing, 259-88.
2. Review of Jiang Xinyan’s Chinese Philosophy in the English Speaking World, forthcoming in Journal of Chinese Philosophy
3. Review of Ni Peimin’s Confucius: Making the Way Great, Journal of Chinese Philosophy 39:3 (Sep. 2012), 453-57.
4. Review of Jiang Wenye’s A Discourse on Confucius’s Music, in Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Vol. IX, No. 1 (Mar 2010), 115-19.
5. “Ren, Gantong and Early Chinese Shi Rites,” Proceedings for the International Symposium on Chinese Philosophy and Analytic Philosophy (Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2009), 352-58.
6. Review of Zhang Xianglong’s Salvage of Thinking: Ancient Chinese Philosophy in the age of Globalization, in Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Vol. VII, No. 2 (Jun 2008), 233-35.
7. Review of Beyond Transcendence in Law and Philosophy, by Louis Wolcher, forthcoming in Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Vol. 35, Issue 3 (Sep 2008), 525-528.
8. Review of Distinguishing Being and Nothing: Reinterpretation of the Wei Jin Mystic Ontology, by Kang Zhongqian, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy Vol. V. No.2 (Summer 2006), 378-80
9. Review of Tradition in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre: Relativism, Thomism, and Philosophy, by Christopher Stephen Lutz, Journal of Chinese Philosophy Vol. 33 No. 2 (Jun 2006), 308-10
10. Review of My Way is One throughout: Re-reading Confucius, by Wu Xiaomin, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy Vol. V. No.1 (Winter 2005), 195-97
Conference Presentations and Endowed Lectures
Apr 2015 “Between Hierarchy of Oppression and Style of Nourishment: Reexamine the Essence of the Confucian Order of Ritual,” Invited Speech, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Apr 2015 “中體西用與西體中用:反思儒家文明的現代意義,” Invited Speech, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.
Sep 2014 “The Empathetic Cycle of Sky and Earth, Human and Divine: A New Study on the Early Confucian Rule of Benefaction,” International Conference on Confucian Ethos From an Intercultural Perspective: The Legitimacy of Regime and the Rule of Governing, Taipei, Taiwan
May 2014 “The Enchantment of Ritual: Poetical Correspondence of Cosmos and Humankind in the Early Chinese Civil Order,” International Conference on “Hermeneutics East and West,” State College, PA
April 2014 “The Enchantment of Ritual and the Heart of Confucianism,” 10th Annual Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought, Carbondale, IL
Jul 2013 “Autonomy, Authority & Virtuosity: Toward a Gongfu Interpretation of Confucian Filial Devotion,” 18th International Conference of the International Society of Chinese Philosophy, Buffalo, NY
Dec 2012 “Virtue, Soul Force, and Cosmology: Recovering the True Meanings of Early Confucian Moral Personality,” Society of Asian & Comparative Philosophy Group Session, American Philosophical Association 109st Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
Mar 2012 “A Confucian Dialogue with Nietzsche: Rethinking the Genealogy of Morals (De) in the Early Chinese Rule of Benefaction,” The Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Seventh Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
Oct 2011 “A Genealogical Study of De: Poetical Correspondence of Sky, Earth, and Human Beings in the Early Chinese Virtuous Rule of Benefaction,” 15th Annual Southeast Early China Roundtable Conference, Sewanee, TN
March 2011 “Xiao (filial devotion) and the Gongfu Process of Confucian Moral Cultivation,” International Society of Chinese Philosophy Group Meeting, American Philosophical Association 108st Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN
Jan 2010 “Poesy vs. Democracy: Reflections on Ames’ Pragmatic Interpretation of Confucianism,” 49th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Conference for Asian Studies, Louisville, KY
Dec 2009 “Euthyphro and Gong the Upright: Reflecting on the Meanings of Piety in Socratic and Confucian Moral Teachings,” Association of Chinese Philosophers in America Group Session, American Philosophical Association 106st Annual Meeting, New York City, NY
Oct 2009 “Piety and Individuality through a Convoluted Path of Rightness,” 13th Annual Southeast Early China Roundtable Conference, Athens, GA
Jun 2009 “Gantong and Early Chinese Shi Rites: An Analytical Exploration of the Origin of Ren," 2009 Association of Chinese Philosophers in America Shanghai Workshop: The Analytic Approach to Chinese Philosophy, Shanghai, China
Apr 2009 “Self-Overcoming vs. Self-Renunciation: Rethinking the Solution to Revenge in Nietzsche and Buddhism,” The Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Fourth Annual Meeting, Big Slur, CA.
Nov 2008 “Ren, Gantong, and Early Chinese Shi Rites,” 12th Annual Southeast Early China Roundtable Conference, Jacksonville, FL
Oct 2008 “What is the Matter with Conscience – A Confucian Challenge in the Age of Globalization,” Invited Speech, Center for Ethics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Apr 2008 “’Where is Your Conscience?’ – Commissioner Lin’s Letter to Queen Victoria,” The Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Third Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawai’i.
Nov 2007: “Dikē vs. Yi: Two Paths of Justice,” Southeast Early China Roundtable, 11th Annual Meeting, St. Petersburg, FL.
Jun 2007: “Care and Reverence: Exploring the Origins of Early Confucian Thinking,” Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy, 40th Annual Conference, Pacific Glove, CA.
Mar 2006: “Conscience and Ethos: Thinking across the Limits of Normativity,” Penn State Graduate Exhibition, University Park, PA
Apr 2005: “Mesotes, Energeia, Aletheia: Discovering an Ariadne’s Thread through Aristotle’s Natural and Moral Philosophy,” Ancient Philosophy Society, 5th Annual Independent Meeting, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Jan 2005: “Conscience and Ethos,” Penn State Philosophy Department Public Events Lecture Series, Penn State University, University Park, PA
Dec 2004: “To the things Themselves – On Ge Wu,” Association of Chinese Philosophers in America Group Session, American Philosophical Association 101st Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
Nov 2004: “A Phenomenological Interpretation of the Great Learning,” Invited Speech, Neo- Confucian Studies Seminar, Columbia University, New York, NY
Mar 2004: “Final Cause, Continuity and Peirce’s Understanding of Reality,” Society of Advancement of American Philosophy, 31st Annual Meeting, Birmingham, AL
Honors, Grants and Awards
Feb 2012 Faculty Research Grant Award, Georgia College & State University
Feb 2009 Faculty Research Grant Award, Georgia College & State University
May 2007: The National Chancellor’s List, 2006-2007
May 2006: The National Chancellor’s List, 2005-2006
May 2005: Forrest S. Crawford Family Graduate Fellowship in Ethical Inquiry, Penn State University, 2005-2006
May 2005: Rock Ethics Institute Fellowship, Penn State University, 2005-2006
Apr 2005: Travel Grant, Penn State University
May 2005: The National Chancellor’s List, 2004-2005
Dec 2004: Travel Grant, Penn State University
Mar 2004: Travel Grant, Penn State University
Mar 2004: Travel Grant, Society of Advancement of American Philosophy
Sep 2001: Edwin Earle Sparks Graduate Fellowship, Penn State University, 2001-2006
Sep 1999: Mary and Charles Wayte Graduate Scholarship, Western Carolina University
Aug 1993: National Classical Guitar Competition of China, Second Place
Teaching Experience and Interests
Teaching Experience
Teaching at Georgia College & State University
Phil 4950 Special Topics: Myth, Magic, and Psychoanalysis; Democracy and Identity: East and West; Psychoanalysis and Heroes; Conscience and Heart: Crossing Perspectives; Language and Nature in 20th Philosophy; Confucianism and Daoism; Buddhism, Daoism and the Myth of Meditation
PHIL 4650 Asian Philosophy; PHIL 4450 Existentialism; PHIL 4550 Philosophy of Religion
PHIL 4350 Environmental Philosophy
Phil 2210 Survey of Philosophy
Phil 2250 Logic and Critical Reasoning
IDST 2200 Ethics and Society
Full-time and Graduate Lecturer at Penn State University
Phil 001 Basic Problems of Philosophy (x3)
Phil 002 Social and Political Theories (Fall 2007)
Phil 003 Absolutism and Relativism
Phil 007 Asian Philosophy (x5)
Phil 012 Symbolic Logic
Phil 102 Existentialism and European Philosophy (Fall 2007)
Phil 108W Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy
Phil 123 Media Ethics (Spring 2008)
Teaching Interests
Asian Philosophy and Religion, Buddhism
History of Philosophy (Ancient Philosophy, Kant and Modern Philosophy, 19th Century German Idealism, Contemporary Philosophy)
Phenomenology and Existentialism, Ethics, Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Religion, Critical Reasoning, Symbolic Logic
Language Proficiency
Chinese, native fluency
Classical Chinese, fluent in reading, competent in writing
German, proficient in reading, some conversational competency
Japanese, proficient in reading with dictionary, some conversational competency
French, competent in reading with dictionary
Classical Greek, some reading competency with dictionary
Latin, some reading competency with dictionary
Service
President, Association of Chinese Philosophers in America (2013- now)
Philosophy Search Committee, Philosophy & Liberal Studies, GCSU (2013-14)
Vice President, Association of Chinese Philosophers in America (2011-13)
External Reviewer, Standing Review Board, University Grants Council, Hong Kong, China (2011-17)
Chair Search Committee, Department of History, Geography & Philosophy, GCSU (2011-12)
Coordinator, Philosophy Program, Georgia College and State University, Spring 2011.
Secretary, Association of Chinese Philosophers in America (Dec. 2009 – 2011)
APA Central Liason, International Society of Chinese Philosophy (Dec. 2009 – now)
Chair Search Committee, Department of History, Geography & Philosophy, GCSU (2009-10)
Referee for Philosophy East and West (2012, 2011)
Referee for Dao: Journal of Chinese Philosophy (2014, 2011, 2009)
Referee for Transaction of the Charles S. Peirce Society (2007)