{"product_id":"semantictruth-approaches-in-chinese-philosophy-9781498560412","title":"SemanticTruth Approaches in Chinese Philosophy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 stren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBo 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\u003cbr\u003eThe 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040781369687,"sku":"9781498560412","price":101.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498560412.jpg?v=1750947819","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/semantictruth-approaches-in-chinese-philosophy-9781498560412","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}