Acknowledgements / Introduction / 1. Truth, Philosophy, and Chinese Thought / 2. Lunyu and Mengzi / 3. Mozi / 4. Xunzi / 5. Zhuangzi, Huainanzi, and Syncretists / 6. Wang Chong and Xu Gan / Conclusion: Comparative Thought and Future Directions / Bibliography / Index
Alexus McLeod is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He is the author of Understanding Asian Philosophy.
In his important contribution to debates on truth in early Chinese
philosophy, Alexus McLeod takes up the important comparative issue
of how to understand the concept of truth in early Chinese
philosophy.... In addition to his grounding chapter on how to think
about truth in Chinese philosophy, “Truth, Philosophy, and Chinese
Thought,” McLeod offers a quite comprehensive account of the
development of thinking about truth.
*Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy*
This book is accessible to mainstream philosophers, generally well
argued, and plausible in most of its conclusions … [T]his book is
really a must-read for any analytic philosopher of language.
*Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*
A concept of truth is essential to every cultural tradition.
McLeod’s systematic and comparative study of Chinese theories of
truth fills a long-felt gap in contemporary studies of Chinese
philosophy. I strongly recommend this book to everyone interested
in Chinese understandings of truth.
*Chenyang Li, author of The Tao Encounters the West: Explorations
in Comparative Philosophy*
McLeod’s new book is a tour de force. He not only makes a
compelling case for the claim that early Chinese philosophies
contained a variety of theories of truth, he shows that we have
much to learn from those theories; the book will be of interest to
any one working on truth who is eager to explore new conceptual
territory.
*Michael P. Lynch, Professor of Philosophy at University of
Connecticut*
This book marvellously examines theoretic explorations in early
Chinese philosophy of one of the most basic conceptual foundations
– the concept of truth – for any reflective pursuits
addressing “how things are”. It carefully engages several
widespread misunderstandings of certain crucial features of
classical Chinese philosophy.
*Bo Mou, Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University and
author of Substantive Perspectivism*
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