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PODCAST

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

Peter Adamson teams up with Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers, and Karyn Lai to represent the philosophical traditions of ancient India, Africa and the African diaspora, and classical China. Website: www.historyofphilosophy.net.

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All Episodes

18:23

HPC 46. Turning the Tables: Confucius in the Zhuangzi

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2026/02/01

How are we to make sense of the different images of Kongzi (Confucius) in the Zhuangzi?

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20:43

HPC 45. Practice Makes Perfect: Skill Stories in the...

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2026/01/18

In addition to sages who show us the way, the Zhuangzi features people taking on daily activities such as woodworking and butchering: we discuss how these figures serve as counterpoints to officials in the Zhuangzi’s time.

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18:38

HPC 44. Like a Fish Out of Water: Animal Stories in...

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2026/01/04

The many stories about animals in the Zhuangzi encourage us to adopt a perspective that goes beyond the human point of view.

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32:40

HPC 43 Chiu Wai-Wai on the Zhuangzi and Mohism

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/12/21

An interview on debates over language and reasoning between the Mohists and the Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi.

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18:56

HPC 42. A Black and White World: the Zhuangzi on...

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/12/07

The Zhuangzi’s critique of dogmatic approaches to argumentation and governing the state.

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23:26

HPC 41. To Speak or Not to Speak: Skepticism in the...

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/11/23

We introduce the second great classic of Warring States Daoism, the Zhuangzi, and ask whether it adopts a position of radical skepticism.

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18:42

HPC 40. Antiheroes: Sunzi’s Art of War

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/11/09

Are the methods of warfare proposed in the famous Art of War an example of “applied Daoism”?

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42:27

HPC 39. Robin Wang on Yin-Yang Thinking

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/10/26

An interview on the pervasive use of the yin-yang relational pair in classical Chinese thought generally, and in Daoism in particular.

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23:38

HPC 38. Easy Does It: Non-Action in the Laozi

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/10/12

The concept of wuwei or “non-action”: does it mean that the perfect sage or political ruler simply never does anything?

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16:45

HPC 37. She Stoops to Conquer: Femininity in the Laozi

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/09/28

How the Laozi (Daodejing) applies the lessons of complementarity to the contrast between male and female.

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17:48

HPC 36. Fishing for Complements: Polarities in Daoism

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/09/14

The significance of the Laozi’s use of opposing pairs, which are treated as complementary rather as exclusive dichotomies.

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21:30

HPC 35. Way Better than Greenwashing: Daoism on Nature

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/07/27

The Laozi (Daodejing) refers to the winds, the rain and the waters. We discuss how these ideas express the Laozi’s views on nature.

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23:31

HPC 34. You Don’t Say! the Dao That Cannot Be Told

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/07/13

The first rule of dao is: don’t talk about dao. We do so nonetheless, focusing on its role in metaphysics and language.

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18:14

HPC 33. Let Us Count the Ways: What is Daoism?

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/06/29

What does “Daoism” refer to in a range of contexts, and how have excavated texts changed our understanding of the tensions between Daoism and Confucianism?

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35:15

HPC 32. Chris Fraser on Mohism

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/06/15

We conclude our series on Mohism with an interview that looks at the Mohists' dialectic and its relationship to their ethics.

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22:48

HPC 31. Push and Pull: Mohist Dialectic

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/06/01

Later Mohists explained in the Canons how to provide compelling philosophical arguments, and how to avoid mistakes in argumentation. Does this count as “logic”?

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22:40

HPC 30. Horse of a Different Color: the Mohists on...

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/05/18

What Mohist dialectics and Gongsun Long’s “White Horse Not Horse” argument tell us about the connection between language and knowledge.

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18:31

HPC 29. Ghost Writers: the Mohists on Religion

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/05/04

Did Mozi tell people that ghosts exist and that we can change our fate because he thought these things are true, or because it would be beneficial for people to believe them?

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29:55

HPC 28. Ting Mien Lee on Mohism and Confucianism

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/04/20

An interview on the contrasting views of Mohists and Confucians on ethical duties and warfare.

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19:13

HPC 27. Give Peace a Chance: the Mohists on War and...

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/04/06

How the Mohist principle of “inclusive care” leads to political order and (mostly) forbids the fighting of wars.

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