Dewey Book Club Phase II Reading List: The Transformation of Philosophy
Key takeaways:
* The meaning of traditional philosophy in Dewey's eyes
* How Dewey reinvented and subverted it
*How Dewey's philosophy influenced it later
Seminar Details:
Theme: Dewey's Philosophical Transformation and Its Contemporary Effects
Speaker: Chen Yajun (Leading Talent in Liberal Arts, Zhejiang University, Director of Dewey Research Center, Fudan University)
Location: Inside the Poster Building, No. 755 Weihai Road
Lecture Notes:
This lecture is an expansion of the lecture, that is, only a part of the audience is accepted except for the members of the book club (the lecture will be paid a rewarding fee of 30 yuan).
How to register:
Click on the url https://whclub.whb.cn/ registration (registration is a real-name system, until the quota is full)
Speakers:
Chen Yajun is the director of the Dewey Research Center of Fudan University, a professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Humanities of Zhejiang University, a leading talent in liberal arts of Zhejiang University, the director of the Pragmatism Professional Committee of the Chinese Modern Foreign Philosophy Society, and the chief expert of the "Pragmatic Research" of the Major Project of the National Social Science Foundation. He holds a bachelor's degree from Wuhan University, a master's degree from Nanjing University, a ph.D. from Peking University, and was a professor in the Department of Philosophy of Xiamen University, a professor in the Department of Philosophy of Nanjing University, and a distinguished professor at Fudan University. Study abroad experience: Harvard University Yenching Scholar (1991-1992), Harvard University Visiting Scholar (1992-1993), Yale University (1993-1994), University of Illinois (2000-2001), University of Pittsburgh Visiting Scholar (2009-2010).
His research interests include Anglo-American philosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. He has published 9 books, including Beyond Empiricism and Rationalism: Narrative Transformation and Effects of Pragmatism (2014), Selected Studies in Pragmatism (2015), And The Pittsburgh Inquiry: Making Clear > and Branton's Dialogues Around < (2015), and translated 9 books, including The Complete Works of Dewey (2011) and Explaining Reasons (2015). He has presided over and participated in a number of national social science fund projects, such as "Comparative Study of Pragmatism and Marxism", "Normative Study", "Comparative Study of the Concept of Freedom: Hegel, Sartre and Confucianism", etc.