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   Yong Huang (黃勇)

Yong Huang, Ph.D in Philosophy (Fudan University) and Th.D in Religious Studies (Harvard University), has been teaching at Kutztown University since 1996. With interest in both philosophy and religious studies and familiar with both Western and Chinese traditions, his research focus has been on moral (both ethical and political) issues from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.

            

Dr. Huang currently serves as Co-chair of the University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies at Columbia University as well as co-chair of the Confucian Tradition Group of American Academy of Religion. In the past, he also served as the President of Association of Chinese Philosophers in American (1999-2001). During this tenure, among other things, he organized two international conferences (one in Shanghai and one in Guangzhou, China) and inaugurated a book series, ACPA Series of Chinese and Comparative Philosophy, and a journal, Dao: A Journal of Comparative philosophy. He has been the chief editor of the latter since the very beginning. The journal, now a prominent forum in the area of Chinese and comparative philosophy, is currently a quarterly published, both electronically and in hard copy, by Springer Business and Media, a world leader in publishing business. Recently Dr. Huang has initiated a new book series, Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy, also published by Springer, with the first installment of four volumes expected to be out in 2010, and the second installment of three volumes under contract. There will be three to four new volumes each year for this series in a period of a dozen years or so. Dr. Huang also arranged a month-long lecture tour by Richard Rorty in a dozen of universities and research centers in seven cities of China and accompanied Rorty for the whole tour, culminating in an international conference on "Rorty and Chinese Philosophy" at East China Normal University in May, 2004.

 Dr. Huang received Chambliss Research Award in 2005, recognizing both the number and quality of his scholarly publications. His first book, Religious Goodness and Political Rightness: Beyond the Liberal-Communitarian Debate (volume 49 in Harvard Theological Studies series), was published by Trinity Press International in 2001. Recently he has published three collections of his essays in Chinese by the National Taiwan University, entitled, respectively, Ethics in a Global Age 全球化時代的倫理學, Politics in a Global Age 全球化時代的政治, and Religion in a Global Age 全球化時代的宗教. With an edited volume, Rorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism, published by State University of New York Press in 2009, Dr. Huang is co-editing another volume, Confucianism, Daoism, and Moral Relativism: David Wong and His Critics. Have just finished a book manuscript, Ethics Matters: Learning from the Neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers, he is completing another manuscirpt, Ethics of Difference: Learning from the Daoist Zhuangzi, both of a comparative nature, with a commissioned volume, Confucius: Guides to the Perplexed under contract and forthcoming.

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In addition to 50 plus journal articles and book chapters published in Chinese, Dr. Huang has also published about 50 research articles in English in such journals as Harvard Theological Review, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Philosophical Research, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Moral Education, Journal of Religious Ethics, Journal of American Academy of Religion, Philosophy East and West, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Philosophy Today, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Religious Studies, Religion Compass, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Asian Philosophy, Contemporary Chinese Thought, and Journal of Law and Religion, and chapters in such volumes as Contemporary Chinese Philosophy (Blackwell), Educations and Their Purposes: A Conversation Among Cultures (University of Hawaii), Library of Living Philosophers: Richard Rorty (Open Court), Rorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism: With Rorty's Responses (SUNY), Dao Companion to Neo-Confucian Philosophy (Springer), and Inter-regional Philosophical Dialogues: Democracy and Social Justice in Asia and the Arabic World (Unesco).

List of Publications

(updated in August 2011)