John Robert Williams

Publications

John Robert Williams
Title:

Assistant Professor (Teaching)

Education Background:
Ph.D. National University of Singapore

Research

Chinese Philosophy 中國哲學, Comparative Philosophy 比較哲學

PublicationsInfo

Books:


o 莊子內篇匯評詮釋 The Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi: With Copious Annotations from the Chinese Commentaries (with Christoph Harbsmeier), Lun Wen: Studien zur Geistesgeschichte und Literatur in China; 27 (edited by Hans van Ess, Roderich Ptak, and Thomas O. Höllmann), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. (forthcoming)



Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters in English:


“Imaginative Agency and Meaning in Life During Periods of Instability: Zhuangzi as a  “Text for an Age of Decline (shuai shi zhi shu 衰世之書)” (with Lucas Scripter), Moral and Public Agency in Early Chinese Philosophy (edited by Eirik Harris and Henrique Schneider), Sinica Leidensia, Leiden: Brill. (forthcoming)


論《莊子》傳統註釋中「庖丁」與「養生」關係的考察摘要” A Note Concerning the Relationship between Butcher Ding [庖丁] and Nourishing Life [養生] in the Traditional Zhuangzi Commentaries,” Early China, 46 (2024)


o “Zhuang Zi and the Greatest Joyousness” [至樂]: Wang Fuzhi’s [王夫之 (1619-1692)] Approach,” Comparative Philosophy, 14(2) (2023)


  1. o “Qian Mu [錢穆 (1895-1990)] Reads Zhuangzi: Regarding “There Has Not Yet Begun to be a ‘There Has Not Yet Begun to be Nothing’” [有未始有夫未始有無也者],” Asian Philosophy, 32(2) (2022)


  2. o “方以智注莊周夢蝶” 故事的翻譯與注解”  “An Annotated Translation of Fang Yizhi’s [方以智 (1611-1671)] Commentary on Zhuangzi’s “Butterfly Dream” Story,” Monumenta Serica, 70(2) (2022)


  3. o “A Couple Nagging Interpretive Difficulties in Zhuangzi Studies vis-à-vis William James on the Ethics and Psychology of Belief,” Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 14(4) (2019)


  4. o “以何莫邪 (Christoph Harbsmeier) 論點否定賴蘊慧 (Karyn Lai) 與凱文· 德拉普 (Kevin Delapp) 所指出的早期儒家認識論的特性”  “Christoph Harbsmeier contra Karyn Lai and Kevin DeLapp on the Epistemological Characteristics of Early Confucianism,” Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture, 30 (2018)


  5. o “Two Paradigmatic Strategies for Reading Zhuang Zi’s “Happy Fish” Vignette as Philosophy: Guo Xiang’s [郭象 (252-312)] and Wang Fuzhi’s [王夫之 (1619-1692)] Approaches,” Comparative Philosophy, 9(2) (2018)


  6. o “The Vanishing Wild Card: Challenges and Implications of Ziporyn’s Zhuangzi,” Philosophy East & West, 67(1) (2017)


  7. o “The Radiance of Drift and Doubt: Zhuangzi and the Starting Point of Philosophical Discourse,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 16(1) (2017)