Jana S. Rošker and Téa Sernelj are visiting researchers at the Taipei National Central Library

Professor Jana S. Rošker and lect. Téa Sernelj, PhD, have been visiting researchers at the Taipei National Central Library from January 12 until March 1. In this period, they have been working on the Chiang Ch’ing-Kuo research project Modern and Contemporary Taiwanese Philosophy, RG004-U-17, (2018 – 2021, project leader Professor Jana S. Rošker). The link to the description and the main achievements of the related research work can be found here. The main goal of the project is to systematically introduce the work of Taiwanese philosophers to the European (especially Central European) academic public and spread their most important achievements, along with their contributions in the field of contemporary philosophical theory. In these two months, the project collaborator Téa Sernelj has been working on her book on the axiological aesthetics in the work of Xu Fuguan, who belongs to the most important modern Taiwanese theoreticians. In this research period, the project leader Jana S. Rošker has completed three original academic articles. The first one is entitled From Li Zehou to Kant and Back or the Precarious Relation between Apriorism and Empiricism. It will be published in the anthology “Beyond Comparison – Chinese philosophy, Western approaches” by the State University of New York Press in the beginning of 2020 (Editors: Paul D’Ambrosio and Geir Sigurdsson). The second one is entitled The Metaphysical Style and the Structural Coherence of Names in Neo-Daoism and will appear (likewise in the beginning of 2020) as a part of the Dao Companion on Neo-Daoism at Brill. (Editor: David Chai). The third one is entitled New Systems of Chinese Thought in Taiwan and Mainland China: Chen Lai’s and Li Zehou’s Upgrading of Mou Zongsgan’s Ontology and is currently under review at the journal Asian Philosophy (Taylor & Francis).