Book Symposium on Michael Beaney’s “The Joy of Chinese Philosophy”

Abstract

The activity is a one-day book symposium on Prof. Michael Beaney’s recently published (2026) research monograph on early Chinese philosophy, called “The Joy of Chinese Philosophy”. The aim of the activity is to foster dialogue and opportunities for collaboration by bringing together scholars to discuss Prof. Beaney’s latest contribution to the field.

Biography

Michael Beaney (毕明安) is Regius Professor of Logic at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, Visiting Chair Professor of Philosophy at Peking University in Beijing, and Honorary Professor of History of Analytic Philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Educated at Oxford, he taught at various universities in London and Yorkshire before taking up his current posts. Recent books include The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy (edited, OUP, 2013; translated into Chinese, 2023), Analytic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2017; translated into Chinese, 2024), a new translation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus in the Oxford World’s Classics series (OUP, 2023), and The Joy of Chinese Philosophy (De Gruyter, 2025). He was Editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy from 2010 to 2020 and remains an Associate Editor. As well as the history of analytic philosophy, his research interests include Chinese philosophy (especially ancient Chinese philosophy of language and logic), creativity, philosophical methodology (especially analysis), historiography, and philosophical translation.

Names of the presenters

Prof. Philippe Brunozzi, Technische Universität Dortmund
Dr. Waldemar Brys, HKUST
Prof. David Chai, CUHK
Dr. Fons Dewulf, HKUST
Prof. Jenny Hung, HKUST
Dr. Frank Saunders Jr., Chu Hai College
Prof. Tobias Zürn, HKUST